Boaters

I have heard it can bring bad luck to change a boats name ,but did not take too much notice.We bought a boat from an artist in York Its name SWEET ART not the best for your cred when being called up on the VHF. What did we do, we changed it ,also the fact that every thing on the boat was green.which is a valid historical superstition in our family meant a complete revamp from furnishings through to the tape round the hull.I would not put it down to all this but two weeks after she turned up at Wayford I had a heart attack and did not see her for some months.She was a nice boat but we were always having problems , from all sides and we missed a lot of boating and decided to move on .Our current boat has its original name and she has been a joy ( most of the time and any problems being our own making ) we changed the names on four or five boats before this but I think we will stick with the original in future,unless it is named something like the above !!!

Great to read of your trips.Sailed that part of the coast a few times and have fond memories of the Walton Backwaters etc.Although the facilities are better ,I feel they have spoilt Brightlingsea with the new marina.Sailed there 40 years ago when the family lived there .As you say there are nemerouse places to go in a short space of time.Keep posting .

Ouch, any news on the private boat ?????????

Really great stuff.How many of us would like to have the opportunity to have a challenge like that.That would make agreat DVD (ideal present ) to watch in the off season.When we sailed Mirrors (many years ago ) I always thought that the Big Brother ,the Offshore was a cracking package complete with small diesel engine ,but for some reason never had the mass appeal of the Mirror dinghy.A good all rounder,shame there are not many glass ones around ,I would love one,

Hi ,what a lot of great info this site throws up and where do these usefull webbsites come from as I never come across them .We found getting the old licence sticker off was a pain I found a light rubbing of the surface with wet and dry paper to take off the top surfaceand then treated the adhesive with a remover.Also fond scaping with a blunt chislele can do the job Best of luck with it.

Hi,read all posts with interest.As there is a meet in the North ( which many are joint members with this site.) mid summer could we not have a early Barby type event somewhere like Bramerton,Berney,or elswhere in the Southern Broads or Stokesby,St Bennetts or Salhouse in the North.Later in the Summer a pub evening,Laying up type supper, informal evening,fish and chip supper at Thurne,Sutton,Ranworth or perhaps some of the Southern boaters have some ideas. Most could offer facilities for a reasonale number of people ,the number of members coming by car would have to be catered for.but something to look forward to on top of our normal boating.