Talk Morgan Forums Community Vehicle Talk (non-Morgan) Yesterdays arrival

Upstaging all the plastic lumps in the river.

Yesterdays visitor on the Dart, the rather lovely yacht Hermetica, 53m, 172 feet long, in from Gibraltar.

The lines of Hermetica seems reminiscent of the wonderful J Class racers of old.

I had the privilege of watching Velsheda berth at Croabh marina (just south of Oban) some yeas back, when my good lady and I had berthed our "plastic lump" there during our usual summer holiday sail up and around the islands off the West Coast.... I took some pics of Velsheda in Croabh at the tim, happy look some out if there is any interest..

Yes please

Apologies for the lack of quality Richard, they are old pics and reduced in pixels some time back to save on storage space.

The size of the winch drum scaled against the bench seat, is quite something, one can only imagine the strain on the sheets..!

Thank you George, impressive is too smaller word.

One can only imagine what it must be like on one in a blow, maybe Murray will comment 😎

We sailed with the Star Clipper last year from Istanbul to Athens. 95% under sail. I loved it.
https://www.starclippers.co.uk/our-fleet/star-clipper-flyer-deck-plans.html

Impressive this yacht is to be sure but that is its sole purpose, something to show off to a rival. The wealth of the individual(s) able to pour vast amounts of money into such a toy is quite obscene IMHO.

It's not unknown for the things to be bought through the profits of crime and all of us will have heard of Conservative peer Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband, Doug Barrowman. Millions of pounds in profits from a fast-tracked COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) contract were used to fund their ultra-luxury lifestyle, including the purchase of a £10 million superyacht named Lady M. that also frequented Dartmouth Harbour.

Antigua race week is the place to view these beautiful vintage yachts. Was lucky enough to visit the week twice during my seven years in the Caribbean. Seen here passing through English harbour after racing during the 2010 week.







Stunning to be able to see at close quarters such J class boats as Velsheda, Endeavour and the replica Ranger tied up in adjacent Falmouth harbour amongst the stinkpots.

Bristol's beautiful architecture and churches were built on the back of the slave trade as were many cities delights.

We are lucky to have such beautiful things to inherit and enjoy that are remembered long after the crimes of the time are forgotten.

Enjoy the visual feast of a properly built boats still being used as designed as your offering is but doesn't have to have five folk to launch/recover it

We had a Broom wooden speed boat with a 50 horse Mercury on the back on the Broads back in the Sixties now that was fun and beautifully crafted in their yard in Brundall and just like a Morgan we went along to see it's progress in the yard..


We see the boat you mentioned often as it is a charter vessel for the oppulent to hire or part hire - it's commerce but an ugly plastic lump all the same.

Pleased that there was interest found in my old pics.... Not exactly Beken quality, but perhaps captured the scale of a J Class vessel compared to that which other average sailors can be very proud of (-:

I don`t do envy, thus when i look at Velsheda, or indeed a Bugatti, or wonderfully architecturally interesting house, that such things exist provides me with a degree of pleasure in my ability to appreciate them for that which they are...

Works well for me..(-:

EDIT Seems I was typing at the same time todays updates were posted.... And which seem to be along similar lines.... I wonder why...?