Classic Yachts2008-08-20T15:14:23+01:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1XOOPS WebLinks 0.9Copyright (c) 2008, http://www.classicyachts.infohttp://www.classicyachts.infohttp://www.classicyacht.info/acully@classicyacht.infoCHARM II is in safe hands2008-03-21T23:51:44+00:002008-03-21T23:51:44+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.1We have heard through our Contact page from the Spanish owner of CHARM II — the magnificent 40ft counter-stern yawl, and the ultimate extrapolation of Albert’s last design VENTURE. CHARM I ...Dick WynneThe Albert Strange AssociationFrom the Archives?Adrian Hayter2008-02-24T04:42:05+00:002008-02-24T04:42:05+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.2In response to an enquiry from Mike Slater regarding further activity and writings of Adrian Hayter, who sailed SHEILA II from the UK to New Zealand in the 1950s and wrote the quite intense Sheila in ...Dick WynneThe Albert Strange AssociationVENTURE in Classic Boat magazine2008-02-22T23:47:17+00:002008-02-22T23:47:17+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.3See the current Classic Boat for Jamie Clay’s 8-page story of the painstaking 4-year restoration of Albert Strange’s last, sublime design, the counter-sterned topsail gaff yawl VENTURE by ...Dick WynneThe Albert Strange AssociationAvailable at last?The ASA Yearbooks2008-02-16T05:28:07+00:002008-02-16T05:28:07+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.4For 25 years from its inception in 1978 until 2003, the ASA produced a Yearbook containing a diverse range of contemporary and historical articles, anecdotes and research material. The Yearbooks were ...Dick WynneThe Albert Strange AssociationThe Challenge that is BLUE JAY2008-01-31T19:06:22+00:002008-01-31T19:06:22+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.5I was in Marion, Mass. USA; the boat I am currently running being in the yard for some engine work. Not an awful lot happens in Marion on the wrong side of Autumn, I?m not sure a great deal happens on ...Bill HitchinsThe Albert Strange AssociationRED DAWN II2008-01-26T02:10:33+00:002008-01-26T02:10:33+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.6ASA member Alan Smith of Suffolk has sent us these recent photos of RED DAWN II. She is 27ft 6in x 19ft 3in x 6ft 4in x 3ft 9in and was built in 1923 by Geo Sinden of Fishbourne, Sussex for Gorden Sin ...Dick WynneThe Albert Strange AssociationSailing as slow as I can2008-01-24T21:21:49+00:002008-01-24T21:21:49+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.7A warm welcome to our newest member Russ Manheimer of New Jersey, who writes:
I’ve always had a soft spot for canoe yawls and obviously double-enders in general. Every once in a while I toy with ...Russ ManheimerThe Albert Strange AssociationSailing as slow as I can2008-01-23T16:27:29+00:002008-01-23T16:27:29+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.8A warm welcome to our newest member Russ Manheimer from New Jersey, who writes:
I’ve always had a soft spot for canoe yawls and obviously double-enders in general. Every once in a while I toy wi ...Russ ManheimerThe Albert Strange AssociationThe Editor Contrite2008-01-20T22:11:00+00:002008-01-20T22:11:00+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.9My apologies: What with one thing and another, a backlog of updates has piled up, which I have just got on top of — so if you haven’t visited for a while, scroll down and have a look ̵ ...Dick WynneThe Albert Strange AssociationSome Albert Strange Watercolours2008-01-20T22:06:09+00:002008-01-20T22:06:09+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.10Trawlers going to Sea - Peel, Isle of Man
A YEAR OR SO AGO THE ASA WAS CONTACTED through its website by Wendy Keenan of London, who wrote
My father lives in South Africa and in the 1970s obtained seve ...Tony WattsThe Albert Strange AssociationSPINDRIFT, by George !2008-01-20T21:17:14+00:002008-01-20T21:17:14+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.11AT ABOUT 22FT, SPINDRIFT IS A SLIGHT LENGTHENING OF GEORGE HOLMES? seminal canoe yawl design EEL (extant and owned by an ASA member) and was built robustly in 1899 at Tynemouth, by a company who also ...Dick WynneThe Albert Strange AssociationSPINDRIFT?22ft Canoe Yawl to EEL by George Holmes2008-01-20T19:52:36+00:002008-01-20T19:52:36+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.12AT ABOUT 22FT, SPINDRIFT IS A SLIGHT LENGTHENING OF GEORGE HOLMES? seminal canoe yawl design EEL (still extant and owned by an ASA member) and was built robustly in 1899 at Tynemouth, by a company who ...Dick WynneThe Albert Strange AssociationSome George Holmes Etchings2008-01-20T18:47:59+00:002008-01-20T18:47:59+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.13IN OCTOBER 2007 THE ASA WAS CONTACTED through its website by Denise and Nick Smith who had come into possession of some etchings by George Holmes and wished to know more about him, and them.
They sent ...Dick WynneThe Albert Strange AssociationOrigins of the Canoe Counter2008-01-20T10:18:33+00:002008-01-20T10:18:33+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.14OUR TECHNICAL SECRETARY AND ARCHIVIST Rick Powell has been trawling The Yachtsman in earnest, and came across the below correspondence from the number of April 7 1898 which sheds light on the origin o ...Dick WynneThe Albert Strange AssociationEMERALD Shines2008-01-20T10:07:36+00:002008-01-20T10:07:36+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.15A PROPOS NOTHING AT ALL, and to counteract the English East Coast bias we may be accused of, by virtue of the (by our standards anyway) dense population of AS yachts there: Roger and Sandra Clarke?s E ...Dick WynneThe Albert Strange AssociationIlluminating CHERUB2008-01-20T00:24:47+00:002008-01-20T00:24:47+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.16SCARBOROUGH YACHT CLUB HON SECRETARY CLIVE MURRAY and the ASA?s John Hobson recently removed from the club?s wall, where it had hung for many years, a half model of Albert Strange?s canoe yawl of 1888 ...Dick WynneThe Albert Strange AssociationBETTY Languishes2008-01-19T23:20:46+00:002008-01-19T23:20:46+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.17
ALBERT?S 47FT AUXILIARY CUTTER, BUILT 1909 by Stow & Son at Shoreham, Sussex, has had a chequered career including winning the 1927 Fastnet Race as TALLY HO, being wrecked on a Pacific reef a ...Michael HolcombeThe Albert Strange AssociationHERALD Intrigues2008-01-19T23:10:48+00:002008-01-19T23:10:48+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.18NEW MEMBER TOM PALING has recently acquired HERALD, built in 1911 by Dyer Bros., Southampton, to a design by an E P Hart. Although currently rigged as a Bermudan cutter, she was apparently once a yawl ...Tom PalingThe Albert Strange AssociationThe Meet 2007?Sailing with Strangers2007-11-17T16:04:44+00:002007-11-17T16:04:44+00:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.19It is one thing to know a group of people through correspondence and an occasional hastily snatched pint, but to go sailing with them can be a different experience altogether. Sally and I had believed ...John HobsonThe Albert Strange AssociationBLUE JAY has new owners2007-09-27T12:27:49+01:002007-09-27T12:27:49+01:00tag:www.classicyacht.info,2008://1.20Blue Jay has recently been sold! We have heard from her new owners, who have joined the ASA, and we’ll have more details soon. Meanwhile there is more about Blue Jay here.Dick WynneThe Albert Strange Association