Lost boats....

talkin of lost boats ----- true story.

 

I know of a club who suffered the loss of a pico - it had been used as a wheelbarrow to cart away the rescue boats fuel tanks in mid of night - (best use i can think of a pico )

Anyway , theft was reported to ra polis who duly noted in book of stolen stuff and forgot aboot it .

 

6 months later (or so) Club rec,d a call from local Laser agent (who had been informed of theft) that someone local to us was looking for everything for a pico other than hull and trolley ! ,

Turned out that a dutyful local had found the pico a few miles from the sailing club , reported it to ra Polis the same morning and was advised to  take it home and if no one claims it you can keep it !!! after x months , dutyful local then trailed boat past Sailing Club to his home and did as requested !!, guess  the Lost and found books in ra polis nerve centres r kept in different rooms

 

Who,s the loser you may ask ? you and I payers of insurance policies !!!! who ultimately pay for this none sense .

 

Edited by Bogg Inne

Boats...

Gull 1786.
This one was stolen, never surfaced. Think this may have been the last homebuilt Gull. 1788 got offered for sale in Y&Y a few years later, couldn't be bothered to find out whether this was actually our boat "renumbered" which seemed possible as they did a jump to 1800 for a new plastic model and I don't think 1787-1799 were ever issued.
[1788 (or a 1788!) recently surfaced on ebay with a good photo of the number on the transom and its pretty clear that it wasn't our boat with the number altered)

First Cherub converted to a rowing boat and left when I moved house. Don't recall sail number

Second Cherub. Never had a sail number, poorly built hull I bought for 25quid, terminal damage after 3 years fun sailing and a very bad Solent slop. Viking Funeral.

Third Cherub. KZ1982. Still have it. Waiting on a major restoration.

Fourth Cherub. 2641. Sold to France. Subsequently had all gear removed and may be lost

Gull 63. Yes Sixty Three. Actually for the girlfriend. Sold on.

Eleven Plus 53, forget the sail number, bought for nostalgia as they're pretty much what I learned to race in. In the garage.

PlusPlus 001. Sold On

IC K257. Current boat.

Int Moth 3517. Bought as a temporary boat when I was unable to sail the IC for a while. Started life as a Skol Mk3 in glassfibre, but it turned out it had a new *wooden* bottom below the waterline, which had rotted and needs replacing.

I'm obviously not much good at selling boats!

Edited by JimC - 30 Mar 14 at 2:29pm

Hmmm, maybe... at the back of the garage?!? 

JimC, do you know exactly how big is your garage, then? Or are the boats stacked up neatly, like Russian dolls? (Wayfarer at the bottom all the way up to the Oppie at the top )

i know a certain famous cat sailor that actually forgot he had a boat it was in one of his barns and wen someone rang up to borrow it he was like oh yea i forgot i had that yea sure he had won the nationals in it 3 years previously!!! before moving class!

Ha ha!!!  Just found my long lost Tasar in the pages of Y&Y!

It is in the photo of the Bloody Mary on page 65 - glad to see it is still going strong and that somebody loves it enough to buy a new suit of sails....