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Yachting Monthly Hall Of Fame

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:49 pm
by Pete Cooper
I bought YM today and was amazed that page 10 reads like a list of Bluemoment 'A' listers!!!!!

Re: Yachting Monthly Hall Of Fame

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:08 pm
by ash
Pete Cooper wrote:I bought YM today and was amazed that page 10 reads like a list of Bluemoment 'A' listers!!!!!
I forgot to check Readers' Boats - Silkie will be pleased.

Text reads as though at least 10 people on board Silkie whilst sailing up Sound of Mull.

Maybe Silkie is 22 metres LOA, rather than feet.

Congrats to Dave.

Ash

Re: Yachting Monthly Hall Of Fame

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:11 pm
by aquaplane
OOOOO, is it worth rushing out to buy one?

Would that be next month's March issue with April on it or this month's February issue with March on it?

Maybe I could stand in Smiths and read page 10.

Re: Yachting Monthly Hall Of Fame

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:25 pm
by ash
aquaplane wrote:OOOOO, is it worth rushing out to buy one?
Prob not - headline story includes Contessa 32 Vs Bavaria 32 - Which scored highest?
aquaplane wrote: Would that be next month's March issue with April on it or this month's February issue with March on it?
That'll be January's with February on the cover - Look for £90,000 Contessa 32, GiGi, on the cover.
aquaplane wrote: Maybe I could stand in Smiths and read page 10.
That's the best bet.

I could scan the relevant bit if anyone is interested.

Ash

Spell Check in Word doesn't like all these [], but it did correct 'relevent' to 'relevent'.... :troll:

Re: Yachting Monthly Hall Of Fame

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:42 pm
by aquaplane
ash wrote:
aquaplane wrote:OOOOO, is it worth rushing out to buy one?
Prob not - headline story includes Contessa 32 Vs Bavaria 32 - Which scored highest?
aquaplane wrote: Would that be next month's March issue with April on it or this month's February issue with March on it?
That'll be January's with February on the cover - Look for £90,000 Contessa 32, GiGi, on the cover.
aquaplane wrote: Maybe I could stand in Smiths and read page 10.
That's the best bet.

I could scan the relevant bit if anyone is interested.

Ash

Spell Check in Word doesn't like all these [], but it did correct 'relevent' to 'relevent'.... :troll:
:D

I'm trying me, my mum says I'm very trying.

Re: Yachting Monthly Hall Of Fame

Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 1:16 pm
by tcm
Oh dear, someone told me there's a picture of a tw*t in pirate outfit...

Re: Yachting Monthly Hall Of Fame

Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 2:24 pm
by ash
tcm wrote:Oh dear, someone told me there's a picture of a tw*t in pirate outfit...
Yes, did the parrot survive all the way across?

Ash

Re: Yachting Monthly Hall Of Fame

Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:04 pm
by Silkie
ash wrote:I could scan the relevant bit if anyone is interested.

Ash
Yes please Ash, just until I can get out to the shops tomorrow morning. What time does WHS open on a Sunday? :)

It'll be interesting to see what they've made of the text. I sent quite a long spiel (sp?) after their initial request for a bigger copy of the pic. Dick Durham 'phoned and said he'd lost the text but if I re-sent it he'd call me back for a chat about it. I never heard from him again so what they've used will presumably be a precis of my original text.

PS - Thanks for allowing them to use your photie Nick.

Re: Yachting Monthly Hall Of Fame

Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:52 am
by aquaplane
I had a look on the online version today. The "users boats" bit read OK apart from it suggested that everyone on the CC09 was on one boat, I presume it was the CC09, the SB Clyde cruise had different folk on it.

Come to that it's a bit of a cheek that the CC09 cruise was made out to be a YBW event, I believed it to be a Bluemoment do, but I could be wrong I often am.

I didn't find any parrots or pirates so I'm going looking for a paper copy tomoz.

Re: Yachting Monthly Hall Of Fame

Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:41 am
by Nick
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If YBW are taking cedit for the Chentleman's Cruise then I am afraid we may have to take the ultimate sanction.

(This involves Claymore, large quantities of Laphroaig and some industrial strength duct tape, but I don't want to go into details on a family website)

Re: Yachting Monthly Hall Of Fame

Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:03 pm
by ash
This is probably 'too little, too late', but for what it's worth.

Image

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Note to YM - These images have been scanned from my bought and paid for paper copy. The quality is only sufficient to encourage others to go out and buy a copy of the magazine.

Ash

PS - You might note that YM has changed the name from CC to GC.

Re: Yachting Monthly Hall Of Fame

Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:10 pm
by aquaplane
Nick wrote:.
(This involves Claymore, large quantities of Laphroaig and some industrial strength duct tape, but I don't want to go into details on a family website)
MMMM, booze and bondage, sounds like fun.

Re: Yachting Monthly Hall Of Fame

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:20 pm
by claymore
I'm more fascinated by the Silken One's profession - furniture retail specialist.

As a young man working in a restaurant in Chamonix to fund my chosen lifestyle, I classified myself as an Underwater Ceramics Technician

It did sound better than a washer-upper.

Re: Yachting Monthly Hall Of Fame

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 7:53 pm
by Silkie
I see my deathless prose has been in the hands of the (non-sailing) sub-editor. Indeed it would appear to have been sub-edited to the very edge of meaning and beyond. :)

Just think, if I ever want to sell Silkie I'll be able to say "as featured in YM" in the ad.

PS - Thanks for the scan Ash.

Re: Yachting Monthly Hall Of Fame

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:13 pm
by lady_stormrider
Aquaplane being from Yorkshire would never ben seen dead parting with more than a florin for any publication (unless it had wipe-clean pages) :oops:

So I was dispatched to Leeds station on a train - which involved having to share a train with some wags* from Dewsbury - and I have re-mortgaged my boat, Ruddy, for a copy of said YM.

I also think some praise should go to the photographer who managed to capture said moment in such high quality and definition at, quite probably, some considerable risk to himself.




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