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scottishboating: October 2010
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Everything about boating, more or less in Scotland. Saturday, 23 October 2010. Aground in style in Kyle. HMS Astute on sea trials. We have a brand new method of controlling the submarine, which is a platform management system, rather than the old, conventional way of doing everything of using your hands.". It's pretty lucky that the boat grounded on shingle, as the area is pretty rocky, so matters could have been much worse. Here is a map showing where she got stuck:-. Links to this post. Looking careful...
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scottishislandsclass: July 2012
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Everything about the Islanders and their friends. Saturday, 14 July 2012. SCOTTISH ISLANDS CLASS YACHT (NO LONGER) FOR SALE - SEE UPDATE IN NEXT POST. Stroma is one of the Scottish Islands Class One Design yachts, which were introduced to provide competitive racing on the Firth of Clyde and safe, short cruising on our West coast and inner islands. They are powerful boats for their length, but incredibly well-behaved and nimble, being fast and light and responsive on the helm. Her registered details are:-.
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scottishislandsclass: Scottish Islands Class Yachts for sale
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Everything about the Islanders and their friends. Monday, 12 August 2013. Scottish Islands Class Yachts for sale. I've heard on the grapevine that Bernera has just been sold and is on the way to a new life back on the Clyde. This means that there's potentially a good fleet back on the Firth where they started out - Gigha, Isla, Shona, Fidra, and now Bernera. Anyone interested can contact me via this blog and I'll pass your details on to the various owners concerned. Labels: classic yacht for sale. I firs...
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scottishislandsclass: November 2010
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Everything about the Islanders and their friends. Monday, 29 November 2010. Followers of this blog will understand that having analysed the racing results for the period to 1935 we are all in need of a little break, so here is something different. In a letter to Yachting Life in June 1999 Mr Robert S Sharp, son of R K Sharp, the sometime owner of Bernera and Sanda, confirmed the original hull colours as follows:-. Bernera black for one year, then green. Links to this post. Saturday, 27 November 2010.
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scottishislandsclass: STOP PRESS - STROMA IS FOR SALE
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Everything about the Islanders and their friends. Friday, 28 March 2014. STOP PRESS - STROMA IS FOR SALE. I've cared for her since 1976 and she's been a big part of my life, source of a lot of joy and good friendships and occasional worries. She's taken me and those I love safely through storms, gently cradled us when we were tired and thrilled us when we eased her sheets and let her reach across broad seas. There are full details elsewhere on this website. Classic yacht for sale. WHAT THIS BLOG IS ABOUT.
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scottishislandsclass: May 2011
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Everything about the Islanders and their friends. Monday, 23 May 2011. Where this blog is now at. Regular visitors will notice that I haven't posted anything new on this blog for some time. This is deliberate, as the blog was always intended to create an archive of information about the Islanders and the people who sailed and continue to sail and look after them. Links to this post. Labels: clyde yachting scotland scottish islands class racing. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). WHAT THIS BLOG IS ABOUT. I do ho...
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scottishislandsclass: March 2014
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Everything about the Islanders and their friends. Friday, 28 March 2014. STOP PRESS - STROMA IS FOR SALE. I've cared for her since 1976 and she's been a big part of my life, source of a lot of joy and good friendships and occasional worries. She's taken me and those I love safely through storms, gently cradled us when we were tired and thrilled us when we eased her sheets and let her reach across broad seas. There are full details elsewhere on this website. Links to this post. Classic yacht for sale.
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scottishislandsclass: December 2010
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Everything about the Islanders and their friends. Sunday, 26 December 2010. John Herbert Thom - Part II - Sunbeam to Gigha. We have seen that by 1930 there were seven Islanders racing regularly and giving very close competition and the one-design nature of this class, in which it was purely helmsmanship that counted, must have appealed. Also James Buchanan had commissioned a new boat that was to become Iona. Herbert Thom relented and commissioned Gigha from Alfred Mylne's Bute Slip Dock. I think there is...
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scottishboating: A Scottish Gem from Don Roberto
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Everything about boating, more or less in Scotland. Thursday, 1 March 2012. A Scottish Gem from Don Roberto. MAN, an awfu'-like thing yon law o' general average. Dod aye, I mind aince being the matter of a hundred pound oot by it.". He paused, and spat reflectively into what he, having traded in his youth to Portland Maine, St. John's, and Halifax, knew as a cuspidor. His whole appearance showed him at first sight a man who for the most part of his life had sailed out of Aberdeen or Peterhead. Charter-pa...