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CHARM II is in safe hands
from The Albert Strange Association
(2008/3/21 23:51)
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We 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 II is on the east coast of Spain and being very well taken care of, as these ‘after and before’ photos show.
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From the Archives?Adrian Hayter
from The Albert Strange Association
(2008/2/24 4:42)
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In 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 the Wind about the voyage, a few pages drawn from our collected Yearbooks, containing more [...]
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VENTURE in Classic Boat magazine
from The Albert Strange Association
(2008/2/22 23:47)
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See 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 himself and Jim Maynard. This beautifully proportioned 29-footer is even more stunning in the flesh, and spawned a family of boats up to 40ft. We have more [...]
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Available at last?The ASA Yearbooks
from The Albert Strange Association
(2008/2/16 5:28)
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For 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 produced using the basic desktop technologies of the day, but what they may lack in presentation they make up for [...]
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The Challenge that is BLUE JAY
from The Albert Strange Association
(2008/1/31 19:06)
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I 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 the right side of it for that matter. But there I was, with the [...]
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RED DAWN II
from The Albert Strange Association
(2008/1/26 2:10)
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ASA 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 Sinden, presumably a relation, of the Isle of Wight. Originally a sloop, she [...]
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Sailing as slow as I can
from The Albert Strange Association
(2008/1/24 21:21)
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A 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 idea of converting Sjogin to a yawl rig with bowsprit and such but then the joy of having such a [...]
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Sailing as slow as I can
from The Albert Strange Association
(2008/1/23 16:27)
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A 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 with idea of converting SJOGIN to a yawl rig with bowsprit and such but then the joy of having such a [...]
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The Editor Contrite
from The Albert Strange Association
(2008/1/20 22:11)
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My 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 — and when you get to the bottom, click ‘earlier articles’ to go back further — the [...]
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Some Albert Strange Watercolours
from The Albert Strange Association
(2008/1/20 22:06)
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Trawlers 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 several paintings made by Albert Strange which he still has today. The paintings were bought at auction [...]
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