Readers' Boats....Warning - LOTS OF PICS!

snooks · #1 18-06-09, 12:45

Come on then, lets see pics of your boats, it's you're chance to show off, drool and admire other people's boats...no wider than 800px please

If this works it could be a sticky or even turn into a gallery who knows

I'll start the ball rolling:

Pixie, 1983, Sadler 32, owned since the end of May 09!

Over to you....
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UPDATE:-
Following the success of this thread I've just made a Readers Boats gallery I'm allowing comments so play nicely [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Fergus · #2 18-06-09, 12:55

Sweden Yachts 41, 1987

snooks · #3 18-06-09, 12:57

A bit of info as well wouldn't go a miss [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

length, make, age etc [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Fergus · #4 18-06-09, 13:01

It's in my bio, added anyway!

jhr · #5 18-06-09, 13:02

You'll have to get a back copy of S***ling T*d*y

Any amount of information about her in there. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

AIDY · #6 18-06-09, 13:05

should there be a separate thread for readers tenders ?

Allan · #7 18-06-09, 13:22

My boat, now called Chausey. 1981 Westerly 33, heading for Porlock earlier this year.
Allan

DJE · #8 18-06-09, 13:33

"Close Encounter" 1989 Sadler 29. She's been in our care for almost 10 years now.

Sorry about the 902 pixels!

snooks · #9 18-06-09, 13:37

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Sorry about the 902 pixels!

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Seeing she's a Sadler I'll let you off [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

DJE · #10 18-06-09, 13:45

[img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Now edited to 800!

pasta_simon · #11 18-06-09, 13:50

As sailed by the miniature gnomes my wife thinks are funny

Huge prize to anyone who can identify the burgee

Lakesailor · #12 18-06-09, 13:52

I go for small and beautiful

13 foot mahogany on oak clinker dinghy, shown on Windermere, built in mid '50s but the maker is unknown. Probably a one-off as the transom is not symmetrical (!). It's an 11 strake design giving fine lines. Wooden spars, but aluminium centre plate and rudder blade. I've replaced the jib with a newer red one. I also have another wooden mast and a much larger red mainsail which I am planning to convert to a lugsail so I'll have a choice of rigs.

My project trimaran shown on Coniston. Based on a 10ft ply skiff I was given the outriggers are made from 3mm ply and suspended on 10ft alloy poles. The unstayed mast is a combination of a Topper alloy bottom section and a sailboard mast for the top sections. The sail is a full Laser. It has a removable leeboard and the rudder is from a Phantom dinghy operated by a lever system so that I can face forward whilst sailing. It's an ongoing project as something usually breaks each time out. The last breakage was the mast step, so the next problem, now that is reinforced, may be a vast overpowering and pitch-pole. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I may sell it this year as I have less time to fiddle about.

Vara · #13 18-06-09, 13:54

Vara, Malo 34, 1988 , mine since 11.00 hrs this morning..

graham · #14 18-06-09, 13:56

Coronado 25 Built in Spain 1973

dacarak · #15 18-06-09, 13:59

Taken from an X boat in a disputed narrow channel via HM [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

bendyone · #16 18-06-09, 14:00

Hunter 26 moored in Calais

15 Foot Glastron used on the Thames

jonic · #17 18-06-09, 14:03

Seraphim 1996 Moody 38

Judders · #18 18-06-09, 14:07

Feeling Rough. 1984 Feeling 720. Mine since February 2008.

seumask · #19 18-06-09, 14:23

Mainly somewhere sandy and shallow, Pool town key, ours since Nov 2003

Georgio · #20 18-06-09, 14:30

"Concerto", My 1978 Contessa 32 at Cowes Week 2008.

Firefly625 · #21 18-06-09, 14:38

oh, piccies!

Contest - 1994 - parents barge (excuse dingy on foredeck & fenders out....arrh, its the only photo I have at work!)

Merry Fisher 625! .Oh, what a pretty little thing! .. but haven't found the sails yet? ;-)

aslabend · #22 18-06-09, 15:09

Nicholson 26, owned a year, leak free for 3 months now......

adrianb · #23 18-06-09, 15:15

Well DAKA started it !!!!

Fairline Targa 52GT, 2006.

On a run to Brighton from the Solent.....

markleuty · #24 18-06-09, 15:16

Mine is the taller of the two:

jobbie · #25 18-06-09, 15:19

1981 Cobra 1050 bilge keels. David Feltham design.

Firefly625 · #26 18-06-09, 15:20

lovely looking boat, and so nice when they stop trying to sink on you.. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

rb_stretch · #27 18-06-09, 15:39

Hawana, a 2007 RM880. A quick 29ft bilge keeler dried out on Bembridge beach.

andymcp · #28 18-06-09, 15:42

No decent pics under sail yet (if you see us out, do feel free!).

Ogun, Elan 333, owned since Sept 08.

Malcb · #29 18-06-09, 15:46

Virgo Voyager 23 foot. On passage from Chichester to Falmouth last year.

galadriel · #30 18-06-09, 15:48

Galadriel an ETAP 35i from 1993

stingo · #31 18-06-09, 16:12

galadriel · #32 18-06-09, 16:14

Oooo! Nasty wash there, I bet you were swearing like hell!

halcyon · #33 18-06-09, 16:15

1972 Halcyon 27. it's been to the USA and West Indies, that's more than me [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

June now and still not in the water yet, and I see no prospect at the moment with work. To sell or not to sell that is question, is it better to she her sailing with someone else, or just sitting in the yard.

This is a hard life.

Brian

mystique · #34 18-06-09, 16:16

"MYSTIQUE" - 30' GibSea 302, ours since 2003

TiggerToo · #35 18-06-09, 16:20

Tigger Too... sailing with us since 2004...

Heigaro · #36 18-06-09, 16:27

Tangle, Samphire 26. 1976.

Anchored in Cemaes Bay, Anglesey.

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alahol2 · #37 18-06-09, 16:29

1978 Salterns Stag 28. Only ours since 2003.

aquaplane · #38 18-06-09, 16:31

Chiron of Man, 1979 Centaur, mine just this year.

Lakesailor · #39 18-06-09, 16:50

Small lake. I bet the piccy of my clinker dinghy is the same spot looking West in my case. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

ShipsWoofy · #40 18-06-09, 16:53

Heavenly Twins 1976, family since '88 mine since 2003, Still under construction

Robih · #41 18-06-09, 17:03

Nauticat 39; 1996 vintage

ZigmundoVanDog · #42 18-06-09, 17:19

Junica. Angus Primrose Moody 42 c/c 1981. Owned since April 1995 and has been home since June 1996.
Pictures are taken off Southern Sardinia.

Rustyknight · #43 18-06-09, 17:21

My Jaguar 25 since 1991, now looking for a new owner.........

Bav34 · #44 18-06-09, 17:24

There's a clue somewhere [img]/forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif[/img]

davewarburton · #45 18-06-09, 17:25

Hunter Channel 323 - Chilling out up the Vilaine 2 weeks ago.

snowleopard · #46 18-06-09, 17:32

Home-built Kelsall 40. Arriving in St Lucia 2001...

Judders · #47 18-06-09, 17:40

It never occurred to me that I had the best looking boat on the forum...

Lakesailor · #48 18-06-09, 17:51

Love is blind [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

#49 18-06-09, 17:56

Jeanneau SO 35 very recently aquired and moved to her new home, hence very bad picture of her at her new home

stewsam · #50 18-06-09, 18:25

Now don't shoot me...but i think the nicholson 26 is the prettiest... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Georgio · #51 18-06-09, 18:31

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Now don't shoot me...but i think the nicholson 26 is the prettiest... [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[/ QUOTE ]

Unfortunately Sir, you are incorrect.

Fortunately there are as may boat designs as there are opinions on what makes a pretty boat.

Can't beat a Co32 though..... and anyone who disagrees is just wrong

stewsam · #52 18-06-09, 18:36

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Well as i said, don't shoot!!

machurley22 · #53 18-06-09, 18:39

Silkie in the Sound of Mull, a Hurley 22 from 1972 and now in her 7th season with me. Click to reveal her full beauty.

Evadne · #54 18-06-09, 18:39

This thread is hell to open when you're on limited bandwidth, but worth the effort. Here's my gal:

(Oops, I just notice who's sitting in the cockpit, I meant the boat.)

snooks · #55 18-06-09, 18:55

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Can't beat a Co32 though..... and anyone who disagrees is just wrong

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Right designer...wrong boat!! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Kioni · #56 18-06-09, 19:11

Sorry for the wide pics, photobucket/internet totally stalled at the moment so can't re-size - will do later.

Saguday, our Island Packet 370, 37ft, launched 2005, owned by us since 2006:

photodog · #57 18-06-09, 19:16

Well a few pics that have been seen before probably....

Talisman is a 1999 Bavaria 31, which we have owned now for 5 years....

At anchor on the River Fal.

Underway in Plymouth Sound (On the right) ... Picture courtesy of Robih!

Lower Pontoon in Newton Ferrers.

Video Underway in May this year.... (You may have seen this before!)

In the lift for a scrub, May 2008.

MacMan · #58 18-06-09, 19:36

Click for Big piccie

Prout Quest 33 CS - only brought last year. Home berth River Itchen Southampton pictured hear on Tean, Scilly Isles last year.

(Pilotage tips to get there courtesy of "ScillyPete" )

And yes the hulls did need a scrub by that point !

billmacfarlane · #59 18-06-09, 19:38

Out Of The Blue on her first ever cruise. She's a Maxi 1100 and is 7 years old.

http://s670.photobucket.com/albums/v...OfTheBlue1.jpg

billmacfarlane · #60 18-06-09, 19:47

Here we go again. Maybe it'll work this time. As I said, Out Of The Blue, a Maxi 1100 on her first ever cruise. She's 7 years old and I've owned her from new.

[Admin] sorted that for you

billmacfarlane · #61 18-06-09, 19:48

Sorry guys I give up.

flyingscampi · #62 18-06-09, 19:56

Westerly Storm 33
T-Cup

Visit to Eastbourne

Home on the Medway, wave as you go past!

flyingscampi · #63 18-06-09, 20:02

Hi Bill

Copy the 'Direct Link' url from PhotoBucket.

(http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/v...OfTheBlue1.jpg)

Click the 'Image' link next to the smileys when you post and paste the url into the little window that appears.

ashonavega · #64 18-06-09, 20:08

[ QUOTE ]
Out Of The Blue on her first ever cruise. She's a Maxi 1100 and is 7 years old.

http://s670.photobucket.com/albums/vv66/macfab51/?action=view&current=OutOfTheBlue1.jpg[/url]

[/ QUOTE ]

Ash

sailorman · #65 18-06-09, 20:14

Oyster37 - I.O.R Rated One Ton

30 Yrs Old this month [img]/forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif[/img]

11 1/2 yrs in our ownership

sailorman · #66 18-06-09, 20:18

I owned a Co32 for 11 yrs & now an Oyster 37 for 11 1/2 yrs i prefer the latter though the 32 is nice n cozy below especially the earlier ones

jenku · #67 18-06-09, 20:22

Nice thread. Too few small boats though, so I'll do my part!
1975 Alacrity. I have had her since 2003 (as long as my wife...).

Pete7 · #68 18-06-09, 20:25

April Lass, and the big smiles? well taken on the day we got the keys [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

ShipsWoofy · #69 18-06-09, 20:38

ah, 3rd nov 2001, great day

misterg · #70 18-06-09, 20:44

Ayla - 1995 Hunter Channel 323; ours since March 2008. Moored near Menai Bridge (pretty sure that's David Rainsbury's next door).

At anchor in Cemaes Bay (photoshopped out the anchor ball [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] )

Andy

chrisgee · #71 18-06-09, 20:52

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Mine ( & swmbo`s ) Catalina 42 roaming around Greece

snowleopard · #72 18-06-09, 21:42

A fan of Jean Auel?

sailorman · #73 18-06-09, 21:45

you should have left the ball & shopped out that friggin black flag

Miken · #74 18-06-09, 22:04

Synergy MGC 27 ours Since 2006

VinceHall · #75 18-06-09, 22:13

Here is Wunja. A Jaguar 27 of somewhere between 29 and 32 years old. Owned by us since September 2007.

The picture was taken in the marina at Scheveningen, NL on our first cruise from Stavoeren to Noordschans.

Morgana · #76 18-06-09, 22:17

Morgana, Beneteau Oceanis 400.... ours since Apr 07....

misterg · #77 18-06-09, 22:30

[ QUOTE ]
A fan of Jean Auel?

[/ QUOTE ]
No (never read, anyway), but I presume the original owners were. Either that, or they were the only retired couple in Cheshire into German techno-funk.

Sailorman: the flag was fluttering, not frigging. Anyway, how can you play pirates without a flag? (It wasn't just me, there were kids involved, too. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img])

Andy

Aeolus_IV · #78 18-06-09, 22:41

Aeolus 4, Wauquiez Centurion 32, 1973. Mine since 2002.

Regards,
Jeff.

CliveG · #79 18-06-09, 22:46

Sirenia
Evolution 25
Mine since 2006.
Full refurbish this winter due to sinking [img]/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Thanks to Sailorman for the Photo taken last weekend on the Orwell.

Blue_Pearl · #80 18-06-09, 23:11

Blue Pearl, Oyster Lightwave 395, ours (well hers) since Feb 2009 [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

fishermantwo · #81 19-06-09, 00:17

Ben Lexcon 26 foot quarter tonner 1970. I have owned her for 5 years. Greenwell Point NSW Australia.

LadyInBed · #82 19-06-09, 00:49

Going down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ready to bail . . .

Then there was no wind

Colvic Countess 33 Comissioned 1997 (1978 moulding)

billmacfarlane · #83 19-06-09, 00:57

Thanks to whoever put my piccy on.

LadyInBed · #84 19-06-09, 00:59

Here you go Bill

mcframe · #85 19-06-09, 01:55

Thorney with a BigNic.

Motoring out of Bembridge.

Dried out in Ryde - (Handy having a friend with a microlite, innit? ;-)

A quiet bit of the Solent on a Bank Holiday.
(@LW, 1.1m for anyone planning on going there)

What the kids got in their stockings last Christmas. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

georgeo · #86 19-06-09, 02:23

RM 1050 'Naer Pourchet' on her maiden voyage June 2008

RM meet may 2009, Herm Island, with new logo, explaining the name, and produced by a fellow forumite!

Kawasaki · #87 19-06-09, 05:08

[quote

Sailorman: the flag was fluttering, not frigging. Anyway, how can you play pirates without a flag? (It wasn't just me, there were kids involved, too. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img])

Andy

[/ QUOTE ]

Great thread this!
Too many raggie pics unfortunately!
However.
I reckognise that Youghurt.
Tiss only the second raggie whatsit I have ever been on.
I felt like a kid on it!
Frigging good fun.
Best I,ve ever had at Zilch miles an hour.

Oh!
Sorry 'Searush'.
Searush has a Youghurt too.
Comes on ere from time to time.

How can you peeps go so slow?
'Searush'

[img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Daft name for a Yacht!

Not posting a piccie of me mobo.
Case I get Scuttled
Butt
Still a good Thread! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Neddie_Seagoon · #88 19-06-09, 07:50

Ameera. Pacesetter 28

Carraghyn - Quicksilver 650 Weekend

simon14b · #89 19-06-09, 09:28

Brent Goose of Ipswich, Maxi 1050 - 2005

Kioni · #90 19-06-09, 09:44

This is a super thread - it's great to see everyones boats

Any chance of making it a sticky?

Thanks Snooks [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

fireball · #91 19-06-09, 10:12

Bavaria 37 - Nadurra ... been ours for a few weeks - hence no photos of the sails up!!

RS400 - noname - ours since new for a few years ...

snooks · #92 19-06-09, 10:44

[ QUOTE ]
This is a super thread - it's great to see everyones boats

Any chance of making it a sticky?

Thanks Snooks [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[/ QUOTE ]

Done [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

cliffordpope · #93 19-06-09, 11:11

Too many ropes

Dipper · #94 19-06-09, 11:23

1979/1980 Seawolf 26 Mk 1 Designed by David Feltham

meandraft · #95 19-06-09, 11:48

Southerly 32 "Mean Draught". October 2008

Cliveshep · #96 19-06-09, 11:53

The only "real" boat amongst the lot. Beautiful!

meandraft · #97 19-06-09, 11:54

1982 Seawolf 26 "Manrique". Not ours now but still looks nice.

VictorII · #98 19-06-09, 12:15

"Victor Too" Moody 36 of 1979 vintage in a bay near Vigo, Spain

Kioni · #99 19-06-09, 13:06

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
This is a super thread - it's great to see everyones boats

Any chance of making it a sticky?

Thanks Snooks

[/ QUOTE ]

Done [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[/ QUOTE ]

You're a star

Cheers

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andymcp · #**100** 19-06-09, 13:09

You win the Boat I'm Most Jealous Of award.....

robp · #**101** 19-06-09, 13:36

Was that in a S. Easterley off Chi West Pole by any chance?

RMTB · #**102** 19-06-09, 13:42

I thought I was in the wrong place, but there is another wooden one now..

Lievre, a Herreshoff H28 built by the Wallasea Bay Yacht Co in 1948.

bluemoongaffer · #**103** 19-06-09, 14:54

And here's another wooden boat (well, sort off - cedar strip)

Golant gaffer, 19ft. Started in 1998, finished in 2006...

AngusMcDoon · #**104** 19-06-09, 15:28

Dragofly 920...

Pregnant...

Waiting for the wind...

StugeronSteve · #**105** 19-06-09, 15:51

Not just another AWB to me:

"Two J's III" Beneteau Oceanis 331 2002 (Mine from new). Pic taken in Braye Harbour Aug 08, still waiting for someone up the Beaulieu to take some sailing pics from his mobo. (Subtle hint!)

jhr · #**106** 19-06-09, 16:08

[ QUOTE ]
still waiting for someone up the Beaulieu to take some sailing pics from his mobo. (Subtle hint!)

[/ QUOTE ] Thought I'd already done it? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Here's mine: Bryter Layter, Sea Ray 215 (sorry; no action pix and this one's rather old. I'm still waiting for someone up the Beaulieu River to take some pix from his raggie....)

Actually, it's a good idea to get some pix - we should try and synchronise our movements some time and I'll "borrow" Mrs jhr's Nikon. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

ShipsWoofy · #**107** 19-06-09, 16:20

I always thought you were a wafi, oh dear, I have even heeded your advice on stuff, I need a shower, I feel dirty [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

john_gill · #**108** 19-06-09, 16:22

39' Joshua - 1973

jhr · #**109** 19-06-09, 16:22

[ QUOTE ]
I need a shower, I feel dirty

[/ QUOTE ]

I swing both ways - as well as the mobo, I have a Mirror dinghy and am not unknown aboard Two J's.

All is not lost [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

StugeronSteve · #**110** 19-06-09, 16:30

[ QUOTE ]
I swing both ways - as well as the mobo, I have a Mirror dinghy and am not unknown aboard Two J's.

[/ QUOTE ] I feel that an official statement of clarification is required here: I have never known him aboard "Two J's III", or anywhere else for that matter, at least not in the Biblical sense!

jhr · #**111** 19-06-09, 16:32

He's in denial - he's not like this when we're, ahem, "pumping fluids" [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

StugeronSteve · #**112** 19-06-09, 16:36

A case of mistaken identity; I have never be in de Nile, or any other African river!

fireball · #**113** 19-06-09, 16:46

Forgot - I've got this one too:

jerryat · #**114** 19-06-09, 16:47

My lovely Fulmar [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Taken 15 years ago with a cardboard disposable camera. Who needs Beken? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

gandy · #**115** 19-06-09, 16:50

Our "ex" now with her new owners ....

gandy · #**116** 19-06-09, 16:57

And current ....

And the very first ....

snooks · #**117** 19-06-09, 17:01

Well if you want to include other boats as well....

here's another one of mine

International One Metre, hand built 2006

http://cmyc.wordpress.com for more details [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

fireball · #**118** 19-06-09, 17:07

I looked at the 1m class - decided I throw enough money at the other 2 boats and wanted something "cheap" that I could race competitively without having to spend a fortune on kit ....

Boomshanka · #**119** 19-06-09, 17:17

That looks like fun (although it sounds like a constipated cow is on board [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]). Where do you get that sort of RC boat from?

fireball · #**120** 19-06-09, 17:37

It's an RC laser ...

http://www.rclaser.org.uk/

waterproof pentax optio wp1 taped to the middle to take the video [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] - with the class captains permission I hasten to add!!

ChrisE · #**121** 19-06-09, 17:54