Oct23
A pleasant episode on the Swale
From the top - three photos of Steve Taylor’s 1923 Hillyard,
Dorma, followed by one of Alan Thorne’s double-ender,
Nissa. As usual, click on the photos for larger images
After posting about a seriously long voyage a moment ago, I thought I’d share some photos from a remarkably short one. On a nearly windless morning, Bob Telford, Steve Taylor and I motored Steve’s Dorma down the creek and tried to sail for an hour or so before the tide got too low to allow her back.
It was a delightful short trip, and I think we would all have happily sailed like that all day - going nowhere very much, but far from anything remotely like work or the trials of everyday life.
We almost had the sea to ourselves - but not quite, for Alan Thorne and his partner and kids followed us out in his Swedish double-ender Nissa. Naturally, we took the opportunity to take a few shots, and here they are.
I’m the geezer in the fetching yellow bouyancy aid, by the way, and Steve is the chap at the tiller with a sailing barge in the background. I’m not very clear why Bob’s nowhere to be seen but I think he may have been wrestling with the Primus stove at the time. I remember a welcome cup of coffee arrived some considerable time later.
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Alan Thorne Oct 24th 2008 at 06:55 am 1
Gavin, ’twas a pleasant sail indeed. Weather was typical of this Summer: gales or dead calm with not much in between! Regarding the vessel: Nissa is a 1961 clinker-built Norwegian Troll 33 - great as safe motor yacht plus liveaboard, especially now with recently installed 150 year-old solid fuel fire from a First Class railway carriage! Following my year’s restoration work, Nissa is now up for sale or p/ex. Alan
Gavin Atkin Oct 24th 2008 at 06:59 am 2
Alan -
Send me a fuller description and more photos, and I’ll put up a proper for-sale notice!
Gav