CVRDA

Do we know who won yet?

Here is the complete thing - hard to argue with the sentiments. APH's son in law John Pudney (father of Jerem of Int 14 & Mirror fame.) also wrote "Johny head in air." These Are the Boys These are the boys of whom we said "They are not what their fathers were; They have no heart, ...

Precisely my point. A P Herbert wrote a short poem about the Battle of Britain pilots which starts "These are not the men their fathers were........................................ The same could apply to the young men and women in our armed forces today and us their parents! Somehow each gener...

The 20 year old + Hornet won boat of the show good to see that with sufficient investment of time and cash an oldish racing dinghy can still be competative and beutiful.

Humbling Garry and a reminder that like every succeeding generation we are not the men our fathers were!

The worst journey in the world.

Is a memoir of the 1910-13 (Robert Falcon Scott - father of Sir Peter.) expedition by a survivor, Apsley Cherry Gerrard. Captain Scotts last letter to his wife could be considered the foundation document of the conservation movement.

As Michael implies this medal is 68 years late but it serves to put any self inflicted minor discomforts into perspective! For myself it has to be warm these days!

Except it is a GP 14 not a SWordfish!

The Bounty/Bligh voyage was done a few years back by Jasper Shackleton the son of Keith aka K Humphrey Shakewell, there was a web site. These Shackletons are relations of Ernest but not linear descendents. Keith painted several pictures of the boat at sea. http://www.jamescairdsociety.com/shackleton...

AND they wore the sort of gear that Shackletons men had, no woosy modrn kit for at least a few of them - respect.

Two thousand years ago give or take we are asked to believe that the crowd(Mob?) chosr Barrabus over the son of God the polirticians we like to berate are chosen by a similar popular vote I submit both these example demonstrate crowds have little wisdom and evidence based is nearly always a misleadi...

Ian Proctor may have said it, but it was first coined by Uffa Fox "weight as such, is usefull only to the designers of steamrollers".

There are I think several factors at play here, for better or for worse. • The innactivity of class associations, which leads to a class being on “The Liverpool Pathway”. • The only hope for these classes is the CVRDA. • What designates a class rather than a one off? • One has to say that some of th...

THe trouble is the MIrror Class has been shot in the foot, a Winder Fantastic has put the homes builds well into left field racing wise and a bit too complex for learning and cruising, time will tell but I predict the end of the Morror as we know it.

For the record the CHallenger Tri (Responsible for getting many afloat, who otherwise would not have been able.) was designed by the great Roderick McAlpine-Downie and after quite a few other builders is again being produced ny Whites at Brightlingsea