BLUEMOMENT

Beginning of April is the target in order to get a wee shakedown sail prior to the Chentleman's Cruise which is the first weekend in May IIRC.

Sorry, Ash, but the link isn't working for me. I've looked at the Vega at http://www.yachtsnet.co.uk/archives/alb ... ega-27.htm
How do you get around the prop being beyond the rudder, other than through careful planning?

I'll see what my employer has lined up for me over the coming months and try to arrange work around the sailing, Silkie.

Andy Ottaway wrote:Sorry, Ash, but the link isn't working for me.

Jings - You're too quick for my two (one at any one time) typing. I've changed the link, and made it more long winded - but it works.

See Vega Website

and Nick and Kathy 's travels in their Vega

for more info.

Hey - mention bottles of malt and get lots of responses. TAASC - an incentive if the forum goes quiet ?

Ash

I'll have to take a good look at Nick and Kathy's site in the morning - we're about to heave-to off Fetlar for the night while we wait for the weather to abate.

Sadly that means loosing the satellite link. Hopefully, I'll be back in the morning, after a night dreaming of distillery visits.

Andy

Andy Ottaway wrote:we're about to heave-to off Fetlar for the night while we wait for the weather to abate.

Now there's a sign-off you don't hear as often as you should on a sailing forum.

Andy Ottaway wrote:How do you get around the prop being beyond the rudder, other than through careful planning?

Planning doesn't come into it - she does what she likes - same as any other female.

Marina maneuvers aren't her strong point - between long keel, angled prop shaft, mechanically feathered prop as origional, prop behind the rudder so no prop wash.

Try to do everything whilst continously moving forward if possible. Reverse at a fair speed to get some effect from the rudder and go where she wants rather than fighting her.

This is my exit stategy from my berth



Anyway - who cares - she is a sail boat after all - and a good one at that.

Ash

Andy Ottaway wrote: My ideal yacht, one which I've long hankered for is a Twister, but at current prices it might have to wait a while.

SWMBO and landed up at Euroyachts version of the second hand boat show at Largs by mistake - honestly.

Some family commitment stopped us going up to the boat that weekend.

We decided to go for a walk along the front at Largs on the Sunday and walked to the marina - by intention - to find that it was the weekend of the S/H boat show.

The pontoon gates and all the boats up for sale were open, so we felt obliged to just have a look.

Anyway the point of the story is that there was a 1970 Twister ( all GRP from memory ) up for sale at £20,000. Knowing her reputation, I had to have a look, but have to say we were both disappointed at the cramped accommodation both inside and in the cockpit. We sail as a couple with occasional additional crew in the form of young grandchildren so we wouldn't be expecting a lot.

She doesn't appear on their on line brokerage so I assume that she sold.

Euroyachts do have an Achilles 24 for sale at Troon. See Here

I have no association with either Euroyachts or the Achilles. This disclaimer is placed so that the TAASC doesn't ban me.

Ash

Afternoon from a lumpy North Sea.

I've managed a couple of days on a Twister out of Falmouth, and while I can agree with you on the point of bijou and compact, Ash, they do sail very well. You can get much more volume on the same length, and as we all know, yachts are a compromise.

I hadn't quite realised the following the Vega has; given the popularity, and reputation, this yacht is fast heading up the list of yachts for a more in-depth look.

Andy Ottaway wrote: as we all know, yachts are a compromise.

Yes, and a very personal one.

We had a Leisure 17 for 3 seasons, and SWMBO and I were the nautical equivilant of tyre kickers.

When we half decided that we would buy something bigger, I realised that what we really needed to do was pick up keys and look inside as many makes of boat as possible to find something that suited us, ie SWMBO finds quarter berths and aft cabins (in an aft cockpit) too claustrophobic (Jings - I wish this forum had a spell checker), and I could manage without a dedicated chart table, etc. I could then read up about the performance and decide if she suited me from that point of view.

Ash

BTW - Where about on the North Sea are you? Google Earth wouldn't find Fetlar for me.

Currently N60° 45.2' W000° 39.6' East side of the Shetlands.

We're supposed to be drilling about 90 miles east of here, but looking at the forecast for the next week the rig'll be here for a while yet.

OK - Found you - Off Unst. Also found Fetlar. Multimap rather than Google.

Ta Ash

Oh Silkie often slips into the water.....were you meaning the boat or the skipper?

Read about that - I bet it wasn't quite so amusing at the time!

I wish you'd been there at the time Andy, I might have got some sympathy. IIRC Claymore wasn't the only one who found it hilarious. Heartless b'stards one and all.

Didn't you offer the miserable sinner Claymore the opportunity to kiss your ring, your holiness?