JennyMorgan

Essentially, it seems, that she's a non runner. Her transom and cockpit combing is not designed for an outboard. Knowing the boat a lot of her attraction is that she's an able motor sailor. An honest description from the seller but I suspect that £2,500.00 is a tad optimistic. As a runner I would have thought £3k plus a little was both fair and reasonable in the present market, very much a buyer's market right now. I agree with Marshman 100% plus on this one. Might be worth a call to these people, they do Yanma: http://www.frenchmarine.com/ One problem with small cruisers is that the cost of marina moorings is out of all proportion to the cost of a boat. , especially old ones.

If I were selling then I'd avoid 'buy it now', it's an auction, let it find it's own price.

Just to add to the confusion the raised portion of the cabin on this sailing boat is often referred to as a 'dog-house', a place that I often frequent! Coincidentally this boat is a Vertue, a real little ship if ever there was. Some friends and I sailed one from Cuxhaven in Germany back to Lowestoft, largely in a full gale plus. We passed through the North Sea fishing fleet hove-to on the Dogger Bank. We didn't walk fore and aft along the cabin sole, rather we walked along the bunk sides! A few days later I popped into a friend's wet-fish shop and and a fisherman was telling all and sundry about his last trip and these mad ***kers on a sailing boat who had sailed through the fleet! I pointed out that we weren't ***kers, just that the owner wanted his boat back by the weekend!

You might not be! The silent majority just don't make a noise about it!

Almost four years later, this has kept him out of mischief!

Richardsons have bought old boats from other yards, some of which just might have been Hoseason boats at one time. Might be worth phoning all the long established yards. Yards changed from Blakes to Hoseasons and back again, nobody in Norfolk ever throws old stuff out, you never know, it will be useful, even redundant blue birds!

Went for a stroll along the seafront at Lowestoft today. Quite clearly social distancing advice is now being widely ignored as there were many close knit groups out on the sand. My personal view is that you lead by example, Cummings has set an appalling example and we are now seeing the result. Gorgeous day, not a cloud in the sky, perfect! People were behaving as if it is all over.

The aluminium ones come up on e-bay every so often. Martham Boats or Maycraft might also be able to help.

Thank you, a worthwhile review of a useful gizmo.

An autumn event perhaps?

MM, I will forward to you a copy of the advert for my friend's boat, he didn't quite achieve the asking price but it will give you a guideline price.

MM, they are smashing little boats, good friend of of mine had one on Oulton Broad for many years. Proper little boat!

Saturday & Sunday saw very little activity on Oulton Broad. Monday was absolutely perfect weather-wise and there were multiple scores of paddle boards and kayaks out. Beyond that motor boat traffic was nothing more than on an average Sunday pre pandemic. In a nutshell, where was everybody?

Many years ago I had a good friend (Alan) who was a professional model maker and ardent amateur railway engineer. He was off the grim reality school of modelling and stuck firmly to his guns. He exhibited at numerous exhibitions during the sixties and seventies. There was one particular locomotive working in Lowestoft at the time that he was working on. I photographed it in detail and my friend's brother, a professional artist/illustrator, sketched much of the detail. Believe me, the model was precise reality in miniature. It was exhibited a number of times and heavily criticized by the judges, the accurately portrayed bent and distorted forward buffer coming in for much attention. Alan's model finally gained a gold medal, the judge knew the engine well, it was he who had smacked the buffer in a siding at Peterborough. Having had a series of rejections Alan was as proud as punch with that particular medal!

No little Vaughan running around and getting in everybody's way then?

I believe that Doris was built by Brookes, she certainly had Brooke engines. After she was built she was taken to Cowes on the Isle of Wight for Cowes Week. One of the crew was a then young Timmy Fowler whom I got to know in his sixties and seventies. He told me how it was duty to sit in the forward well, all the way to Cowes, bucketing out the waves that broke over her bow. Apparently the well was lined with an old sail in order to make it watertight and it was a pretty near constant job bailing! He didn't volunteer for the return trip.

Poor old Doris fell into the ownership of a house builder who knew it all. Lots of hard work, house builder style using materials well suited to houses but not to the wet or damp environment of a wooden boat of some antiquity. An iconic boat that needs a rich and suitably capable owner, something that until now she has regrettably avoided. House builders and boats don't always make good bed-fellows!

Serious point, could you self rescue? Could your crew take the helm and safely return to where you fell in?

Went to Coo-Dee (Lathams) today, 10 minutes top queuing, very pleasant. Lots of quality tat including some lovely Portmeirion table wear at very attractive prices, as well as the plants that we actually went to buy.

Why not? You could also mount such steps direct to an upright transom. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2PCS-Marine-316-Stainless-Steel-Folding-Mast-Step-Boat-Yacht-Van-Cabin-Ladder/133409604489?_trkparms=aid%3D555021%26algo%3DPL.SIMRVI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20190711100440%26meid%3D475561c2e32947d2807f18fe1b98b9fb%26pid%3D100752%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D7%26mehot%3Dco%26sd%3D174291384354%26itm%3D133409604489%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSimplRVIAMLv5WebWithPLRVIOnTopCombiner&_trksid=p2047675.c100752.m1982

This is an adaption of a boarding ladder designed for a Drascombe but I see no reason why the idea couldn't be adapted for a bigger boat: http://www.drascombe-association.org.uk/DH/Drascombe projects/Boarding Ladder.htm

If I had forty or more feet of box section canal boat roof to clutter up, and no desire to pass under Potter, then carrying a ladder, and perhaps a wheelbarrow for the shopping, makes a perfect sense. Collapsible ladders are available, at a price; but the ease by which someone can exit the water by ladder, as suggested by Vaughan, seems eminently workable. Ladders are also useful as gangplanks, crossing mud like on Breydon and also for bridging voids on some steel shuttered moorings when it comes to rigging your fend-offs. Vaughan's idea doesn't deserve being scoffed at, indeed were I a 'stink boat' owner then I would give it some serious consideration. Sat here, in my junior 'keyboard warrior' outfit, I can see the sense in a timber ladder because it floats, and one that is perhaps half the width of a conventional ladder so that it takes up less room. Being timber it can be floated along to a casualty who can then lie on the ladder so that those on board can then lift the ladder into a vertical position so that the unfortunate victim can then gracefully exit the wet stuff. However, the advantage of an aluminium ladder would be that the bottom end would sink and be easier to climb onto. Surely an idea worth playing with. I have seen Dutch Drascombes with ladders cut out of plywood, how simple is that! Indeed so simple I'm going to make one! Thanks for reminding me, I'd completely for gotten about the idea! It is the obvious way forward. The simplest ladder being onen having one central column with alternate steps, left and right. The thing, being slightly flexible can can lay alongside the gunwale for storage. The joy of retirement, another project! I'll see if I can find an article on the Drascombe Association Website.

I rather think so! My kayak is tolled but my daughter's isn't and so that there would be two to use we've tried to toll hers by phone. The tolls office must have been inundated, we've both tried ringing, call ended, number busy, re call and so we did, five and ten minutes at a time and still unable to get through. Gave up at five past five! Should have paid earlier but it looks like we were not alone! It looks like its going to be stonker of a weekend and a busy one for the rangers. Looked to pay online, that is no quick fix so that idea went out the door. Best make sure that all your fenders are in place!

The Navy might mob on about us Saturday Admirals but let's not forget this gang of RN officers who went sailing one day! https://littleshipclub.co.uk/news/yacht-collides-bulky-tanker-cowes

So this HM Destroyer is in fact a boat then? The ship that it's on being a semi submersible.