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  1. Mr. Ed

    Older well known IOR Boats

    https://www.yachtbroker.dk/baad/ron-holland-1-tonner/5582   here’s a real superstar. Not much info nor  cheap but a real piece of history - a legendary boat (in Ireland at least). She looks in good nick.    E
  2. Mr. Ed

    Older well known IOR Boats

    Time to sell for landfill value then  . . .  No, I hadn't seen it before . . . thanks for the headsup. I'm feeling like an old man who wants a sportscar . . . I reckon we've got another couple of years or so with our current boat, and I want to be perverse and take an old performance boat and...
  3. Mr. Ed

    Older well known IOR Boats

    European built Farr 1104 - anyone know anything about them? Who built them for instance? Specifically I'm interested in an oddly named boat called DIVERSITY for sale in England at the moment which has a garbled description, but which claims to be a Farr 1104 (and looks like it to my ignorant...
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    Anyone have any first hand experience of a "Polar" Colin Archer type?

    It’s certainly as heavy as a Westsail - between ten and twelve tons I think. The boat’s not specifically for the west coast by the way. 
  5. Mr. Ed

    Night Runner is on the market

    Is it just me or does thunderhead look like two different boats joined together? The join is at around the second port light.  
  6. Mr. Ed

    Anyone have any first hand experience of a "Polar" Colin Archer type?

    It’s not for me, honest! It’s a real third party, not a case of “my friend has an erectile problem”.  I take it you’re away from the boat then? 
  7. Mr. Ed

    Anyone have any first hand experience of a "Polar" Colin Archer type?

    Thanks sass - the boat I’m after info on is a specific German build - semi production I think - from the 1970s How’s your rudder?
  8. Mr. Ed

    Night Runner is on the market

    I own a modern wooden hulled boat and after nearly ten years can tell you it’s the machinery, sails etc that kill you with cost. The hull not so much. It’s only one part of the boat. 
  9. Mr. Ed

    Anyone have any first hand experience of a "Polar" Colin Archer type?

    There’s another theory, or at least was, in Britain. It’s so engaging that I choose not to interrogate it. Based on DNA evidence the least mobile population in Britain is in the Home Counties - around London in short. The interpretation of this is that, as the Celts and Picts were driven to the...
  10. Mr. Ed

    Anyone have any first hand experience of a "Polar" Colin Archer type?

    Lovely part of the world indeed. This odd sail choice is what took us across from Inishbofin to Fenit the week before last
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    Anyone have any first hand experience of a "Polar" Colin Archer type?

    Didn’t know about that episode with MacBride. Interesting. Thanks.    Reckon it’s all different now 2L. The big industrial buyers of large forestry in Ireland seem to be Irish - lots of money looking for assets, but ours is a pissy little beautiful thing of no commercial value.  Migration...
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    Anyone have any first hand experience of a "Polar" Colin Archer type?

    Reading back that post I'd like to apologise for  a. The lack of capitalisaion b. The over-use of the historic present tense, which can reduce me to sea-foaming mad-fury Sorry.
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    Anyone have any first hand experience of a "Polar" Colin Archer type?

    we’re in South Kerry   the boat lives just over the border in Co Cork in the deservedly famous anchorage of Glengarriff   Trees: Last ice age: no trees, no people End of last ice age (c 10,000 years ago): slow arrival of trees, arrival of Celts from Central Europe (probably) Begins a...
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    Anyone have any first hand experience of a "Polar" Colin Archer type?

    Hi there lovely Cruising Anoraks all of you I've missed you, and have been off chasing other obsessions for a bit: our cruise round Europe got stuck in Ireland, and we seem to have bought a forest there. It's lovely but doesn't go to windward for shit. We've had some good sailing in the gaps...
  15. Mr. Ed

    Disappearances at sea

    My brother in law did a disappearing act a few years ago on his scruffy steel junk rigged thing. Old, poor, and sick he probably set out from the Canaries with his last bottle of scotch and opened the seacocks. Boat was called Roamer - he wrote quite a good book about his circumnavigation. 
  16. Mr. Ed

    Craigslist - Not mocking

    What’s the baby seal’s favourite cocktail?  Canadian Club, on the rocks.  Tadaa!
  17. Mr. Ed

    Jeanne Socrates - nonstop solo RTW 2018

    The closest we came to a fuckup (a serious one I mean) was when I released the wrong halyard and the main was stuck up, wouldn’t come down. Rushing all over the place in the dark we were.  Tired makes you stupid. I didn’t know I was tired. 
  18. Mr. Ed

    Feasibility to refit a big, old boat?

    If the boat has pedigree and history she is more likely to maintain value: I don’t think Enchanta was even a legend in her own lunchtime.  Tallyho and Ilen (for example) owe their survival to the number of good stories that have gathered around them.  
  19. Mr. Ed

    The blight of generators

    Sorry everyone for my smug “come to Donegal for quiet anchorages” rant for we’ve just had a vexing evening at Mullaghmore - delightful otherwise - with speedboats water skiers and jet skis disturbing our evening. Topped off with microlight aircraft making a racket from above.  OK, it’s in...
  20. Mr. Ed

    What's Cruising to you?

    What’s Cruising to me? Right now a fantasy that taunts me! 


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