Blimey, and this one was hiding away too! You walked past my old berth where I kept my Westerly exactly as you said "I don't think I've ever been anywhere like this place".
I don't know about elite, but it was very interesting who would turn up and moor next to you. The end pontoon is one of the deepest and the closest to the entrance to the Hamble, so all sorts moor there. I remember in particular one weekend we found Nigel Burgess moored up next to us with his boat about to set off on the Vendee Globe, and he kindly let us have a poke about and photograph ourselves on his amazing yacht. That was of course the last time he was seen before he was found off Cape Finisterre a few days later. We kept Maiden there when we did the Fastnet on it in '93. Many weekends you'd see some boring old Fulmars and Oceanlords there, some weekends you'd see some bonkers racing yachts. The thing I liked most about Hamble Point Marina was when I called up the harbourmaster to ask if he could find a space for some friends who were visiting -- there were about four boats and one of them was a 48' Sunseeker. His reply: "this is a marina not a ****ing caravan park". Excellent chap. He did let the guy moor up overnight on one of the distant pontoons. Looks like things have changed a bit since then.
the mastless woody in need of attention looks like a 6-meter class racer of the sort the US designer Olin Stephens used to turn out. nice lines and I think they also made a splash in the UK. love the marina tours....
Lee Weisbecker the marina tours are a minority sport but as I would be poking around with a camera anyway and turning them into little films is fairly easy to do. I love walking down a pontoon - you just never know what you might find
Sailboats are the original eco friendly boats and if you"ve got a inboard then it could also be considered a hybrid of sorts and much more stlyish, although no mirrired patio doors.
There's a good Yarmouth 23 blog at ifno.info/blog/. He's an Englishman. The blog mostly focuses on local fauna, but every now and then he gets around to the boat. Entertaining reading.
That one sailboat with no mast flush deck, i saw one just like it hear in ca. it sailed on her own bottom . did not like the two cockpits the , craftsman was perfect, any way it did sink right to the bottom.
Genius idea Dylan! Now you can circumnavigate the entire country again but this time reporting on the condition of the bogs at each place you can moor up!
Blimey, and this one was hiding away too! You walked past my old berth where I kept my Westerly exactly as you said "I don't think I've ever been anywhere like this place".
It is an astonishing place - the home of the elite.
I don't know about elite, but it was very interesting who would turn up and moor next to you. The end pontoon is one of the deepest and the closest to the entrance to the Hamble, so all sorts moor there. I remember in particular one weekend we found Nigel Burgess moored up next to us with his boat about to set off on the Vendee Globe, and he kindly let us have a poke about and photograph ourselves on his amazing yacht. That was of course the last time he was seen before he was found off Cape Finisterre a few days later. We kept Maiden there when we did the Fastnet on it in '93. Many weekends you'd see some boring old Fulmars and Oceanlords there, some weekends you'd see some bonkers racing yachts.
The thing I liked most about Hamble Point Marina was when I called up the harbourmaster to ask if he could find a space for some friends who were visiting -- there were about four boats and one of them was a 48' Sunseeker. His reply: "this is a marina not a ****ing caravan park". Excellent chap. He did let the guy moor up overnight on one of the distant pontoons. Looks like things have changed a bit since then.
It has been really polished up. The bogs are immaculate.
the mastless woody in need of attention looks like a 6-meter class racer of the sort the US designer Olin Stephens used to turn out. nice lines and I think they also made a splash in the UK. love the marina tours....
Lee Weisbecker the marina tours are a minority sport but as I would be poking around
with a camera anyway and turning them into little films is fairly easy
to do. I love walking down a pontoon - you just never know what you
might find
Sailboats are the original eco friendly boats and if you"ve got a inboard then it could also be considered a hybrid of sorts and much more stlyish, although no mirrired patio doors.
There's a good Yarmouth 23 blog at ifno.info/blog/. He's an Englishman. The blog mostly focuses on local fauna, but every now and then he gets around to the boat. Entertaining reading.
That one sailboat with no mast flush deck, i saw one just like it hear in ca. it sailed on her own bottom . did not like the two cockpits the , craftsman was perfect, any way it did sink right to the bottom.
Genius idea Dylan! Now you can circumnavigate the entire country again but this time reporting on the condition of the bogs at each place you can moor up!
it has already been done = one of the circumnavigators reviewed every loo.