Peterduck
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Reged: 10/04/2002
Posts: 994
Loc: Melbourne, Australia
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She's beautiful, Seagreen! Swallow, the gaff ketch which I owned until recently [she is now another man's joy and despair, both at the same time] was built in 1917, so she's 91 years young. Built as a fishing boat for the Southern Ocean, with an expected working life of perhaps 30 years.
Peter.
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Clifford_Pope
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Reged: 28/10/2005
Posts: 716
Loc: Pembrokeshire
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Xenia built 1880s, according to a former owner who knew a former owner who knew another former owner .....
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Morgana
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Reged: 28/08/2003
Posts: 12220
Loc: East Coast
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That is one beautiful boat!
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Seagreen
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Reged: 30/07/2005
Posts: 1219
Loc: ked myself in the locker again...
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I have to say that my original intention was not to buy such an old boat, just a gaffer of some sort, and a yawl if possible. I was actually looking at prawners, being small stout boats, shallow draft with nice low freeboard, but it was just synchronicity that Cleone was up for sale via Peter Gregson, at the same time as I was looking. All the other boats I'd seen were in shocking condition for some reason. I'd even gone all the way to north Wales to look at the Arthur Alexander, a prawner of some note, only to find her rotten as a pear and falling to bits on the quayside at Scott Metcalf's yard. Great shame. Cleone was local, in fantastic shape and all the work I've done over the last 2 years has mainly been upgrading. That said, I'm still up to my eyes in rebuilding the cockpit, but its given me a big chance to "re-develop" the stowage and bunkering. Just don't remind me of the amount of varnishing I have to do!
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"Let Joy be unconfined!"
I'll get her chastity belt keys, then..
http://www.linesquall.co.uk
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Chrusty1
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Reged: 27/02/2008
Posts: 847
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I think I am "Seagreen" with envy!................in the nicest possible way of course 
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Chrusty1
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Reged: 27/02/2008
Posts: 847
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Xenia built 1880s, according to a former owner who knew a former owner who knew another former owner .....
"Xenia" is a lovely boat, I am sure that now you have her bottom wet, she will give you tremendous enjoyment, something about her size would do me very well.
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Clifford_Pope
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Reged: 28/10/2005
Posts: 716
Loc: Pembrokeshire
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Thanks Chrusty1 - I intend to!
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Fezza
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Reged: 27/03/2007
Posts: 10
Loc: North Essex
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Hi link to Boadicea here http://www.oystersmack.org.uk/
She still sails regularly and is still in the Frost family (my brother in Law)
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Chrusty1
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Reged: 27/02/2008
Posts: 847
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Thank you very much indeed!.......I have put it on my desk top and will look at it properly this evening.
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Piddy
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Reged: 18/01/2005
Posts: 375
Loc: Hampshire
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Hi there,
When I was a kid, my Parents had Morning Star, an Itchen Ferry that the previous owner had researched in some depth back to 1857. We bought her from Cooks yard in Maldon and sailed her to Portsmouth leaking like a sieve, although being only 8 at the time, it didn't matter to me. I assumed all boats leaked like that!
It's not quite "on thread" as she isn't sailing today but still slightly relevant!
Cheers
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