Boats, boats, and more boats

Thursday Island pearling lugger in 1977 when I was in the Torres Strait.

WW1 concrete ship Cretetree . Moored at Scalpay.

Want to sail around the world on a budget?

Or if you have a bigger budget…

And for some real self propelled speed on the water – my old racing surf ski made by Hadyn Kenny.

If you have a few strong men, this can be quite nippy too.

Ooops! I think I’ve just outed myself as a boatie… 🙂

From a few years ago, me locking our then new weed boat through Barnwell lock.

@bearnecessities
Yours for a spare £650k…

Virgin Atlantic Challenger 2 PRICE REDUCTION!!!

https://www.apolloduck.com/boat.phtml?id=380904

Not the best looking boat but for some reason I love it, SuRi

I love boats, I have two classic Broads River Cruisers, not too dissimilar to the ones posted by @klunk on the first page.

Normally, I would be only too keen to post pictures of them, not only because their lines are right for me but also, there’s lots of blood,sweat and tears and pride as Ive taken on major refits such as a new keel, decks, cabin top, planking, painting, varnishing etc etc etc. I love it! They’ll both now outlast me and someone else can then enjoy maintaining and sailing a lovely wooden yacht 😀

However, I’ve yet to try posting a pic on the new forum.  Search is throwing nothing of use up and i do recall a thread detailing the various steps a few weeks ago.  sorry for a repeat: i now have to upload my pics onto the internet I understand.  Where is a good place, I used to use photo bucket, are they allowed again?

Apologies, if I can sort, I will

Now you’ve all had your fun with plastic toys and slackalice has arrived with his beautiful boat (if its ihe one i think it is)

I’ll leave this hear…

Ah ha!  Well, thank you @joshvegas 😀 That one you posted looks lovely! Put my neck on the line here, it looks like a mini Herreshoff (sp?)

Anyway, Ive joined Flickr and on rural broadband, attempting to upload some photo’s without much success, however, one has landed in my Flickr thing, so lets see if we can post it here….

Clearly not… Okay, so I copied link and pasted it using the picture icon… Ill try copy and pasting directly into this edit pane…

https://www.flickr.com/gp/157359562@N05/9a23F8

FFS! Why????!!!! It really need not be counter intuitive to stick a bloody picture on here surely??!!

lets try copying the link from the Album as opposed to the Photostream..

Possibly not, how about using the insert link button?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/157359562@N05/41456100475/in/album-72157696669450884/

So why dont my edits show up when I repost? Its the insert url/link button!! The picture one seems to do sweet FA. Someone coulda told me!! 😉

Ah!!! Got it, I think.. Anyway, this is the only one thats uploaded to Flickr at the moment, but with an upload speed of less than 0.5Mbps…

Its a cat boat to be fair its i pretty elegent example!

Urchin is one of your cruisers? You posted it on the what have you made recently thread ages ago.

There was a photo of the mast step as you were replacing the brace or something.

And you got it finished in time. Its I lovely boat and story.

I use imgur for posting picks its seems to be the easiest to get the jpg address.

Less teaser shots though we want to see her in action.

Lets try for some more….

https://www.flickr.com/gp/157359562@N05/913001

https://www.flickr.com/gp/157359562@N05/913001

Oh FFS! This is pissing me off, I can’t even replicate what I did earlier to get that image up.

Yep, Urchin is the one where I replaced all the decks, deck beams, tabernacle… major work about 7 years ago now. A couple of years ago, I renewed her cabin top and put in a sliding companionway hatch, because I wanted one!  That came out well and would put up a pic or two if I could.

The other one, sail number 68 is a recent addition, she belonged to my Uncle for nearly 40 years, however with the onset of his Dementia, he didn’t want to sell her, rather gift her to me and my sister! Bit of a poisoned chalice really, as one wooden boat is enough, two is quite frankly ridiculous, but he’s happy with it and we take him out for day sails every so often. She’s quite a bit bigger and whilst he looked after her well, she was getting tired, so the last couple of years have been renewing all the rigging, running and standing, a couple of new planks (mahogany on oak) and a ton of varnishing.

Not too many pics of them sailing, funnily enough, there are a couple, but getting them onto here is a **** lottery as far as Im concerned!  I looked at Imgur and got confused with their site, so ended up with Flickr, which is also a ball ache.

I shall persevere with tenacity…. until I get bored…

https://www.flickr.com/photos/157359562@N05/27488984907/in/album-72157696669450884/

Bollox to this POS!  Its not even posting up my edits, Ive got boats to care for, love and maintain.  Someone sort this **** forum out so reasonably intelligent people like me, who merely ask for stuff to be intuitive, please make it so!

Remember this large turning mark placed on the Brambles?

And I was lucky to have had the chance to blast around the Solent on Mikes Open 60 during a shakedown …

and a pic of Mike rescuing Alex in the Southern Ocean…

BB code from Flickr, apparently… Only Lordy only knows how my topsail pic managed to get here… Lets have another go… heads up! Freshly renovated Baby Blake…

IMG_1222 by Tim Betts[/url], on Flickr

Hell yeah!! Okay….. Here are my lovelies… 😀

P1020365 by Tim Betts[/url], on Flickr

IMG_1495 by Tim Betts[/url], on Flickr

IMG_0063 by Tim Betts[/url], on Flickr

Urchin 2 years ago, ready for relaunch after making a new lifting cabin top c/w slide hatch..

IMG_0971 by Tim Betts[/url], on Flickr

IMG_0982 by Tim Betts[/url], on Flickr

Tucked up in the boathouse, with the fabric side curtains finally fitted..

IMG_1145 by Tim Betts[/url], on Flickr

Mancuna (no 68) in the ‘shed’ earlier this year after some planking, varnishing and topsides painting

IMG_1368 by Tim Betts[/url], on Flickr

IMG_1366 by Tim Betts[/url], on Flickr

The sailing pic of Urchin is a few years old now… as an aside, the yellow sails were bought by mu mum in 1961, some of the very first Teralyne (sp?) sails produced and they’re still going strong, held their shape and distinctive!

Awesome 👍👍👍👍😎

Just to clarify you have a mooring on your garden and a boathouse AND a massive shed?!

Dick.

These things are a hell of a ride, I’ve had a go on this one (or one the same colour from the same tower).

Those are gorgeous, slackalice!

Not one bad looking person in that lifeboat video.

The Boats are about!

Dante

Hannah Chouest

HOS Commander

Blast from the past there @klunk! The boats were much simpler then. Funnily enough, Madie no 52, is going back to a gaff rig this year, carbon spars the whole nine yards.

@joshvegas, boathouse and garden, yes, boatshed, no! That is at Swallowtail Boatyard, where they give me a corner of their shed for as many months as I need every other year or so. The redeck was major, May to October, working on her 6 days a week and close to 12 hours a day!

We’ve had the waterside plot with the boathouse for some 35years now, it’s my refuge!

Awesome day on the boats today, so awesome I forgot to take any pics, will endeavour tomorrow. Thank you for your compliments 😀

We had a river cruiser moored at Acle for about 15 years, but couldn’t justified keeping her for a couple of weekends a year. Though we did consider putting in a offer in for Ladybird (13) when she came up for sale 5 years ago (we’d had her as a hire boat in the mid 70’s). Dads ill health stopped us in the end.

Not as pretty as some shown already, but working here pays my wages.

ladybird 2015 (looks like new owners have shortened the mast, IIRC in her previous rig she was pulling out her chainplates on a regular basis)

nice picture of Madie

Ladybird is moored very close to us. One of the Jeckells brothers’ owns her.

What was the name of your river cruiser klunk? Trying to justify owning a boat is a thankless task! In many respects, the advice I was once given was: If it floats, **** or flies, rent it!

Are you still local to the Broads Klunk? If you’d like to sail the rivers again, let me know dude.

There is usually no rational reason for owning a boat, its normally far cheaper to charter one, but people still do own them.

I use my boat maybe 20 times per year, costs a fortune in maintenance , mooring fees etc, would be way cheaper to just rent one when i wanted, but still i own it instead

Am with you on that @julians! Logically, it makes no sense. Now that I live less than 10 miles, as opposed to the previous 190 miles, from my plot and moorings, ownership is a joy, especially on sunny warm summer evenings during the week after work and an evening sail and drift up or down stream requires very little fore thought and planning 😃

I am very fortunate, the bike riding has taken a bit of a hit since moving to Norfolk nearly four years ago, but I love the boats and the rivers here too!

Not sure if it qualifies as a boat or not, but my dad spent 30 years of his working life in the North Sea and he live on or saw a fair few of these….

Amazing things really the way they stay still on the roughest of seas.

Dan spent a bit of time on these, my primary teacher didn’t believe me when I told her.

Are you still local to the Broads Klunk? If you’d like to sail the rivers again, let me know dude.

not particularly though my mother now lives on the norfolk suffolk border so I’m up that way 5-6 times a year (though i usually end up propping up the bar in the nelson southwold) but thats a very kind offer btw I may take you up on it :). For the life of me I can’t remember what she was called fine lady or perfect lady something like that. Very fond memories tanking across hickling broad with mum screaming and getting so pissed at the 3 river race ending up trying to row down thurne dike in a boat mold (ah to be a teen again) 🙂

Was supposed to read Dad not Dan