Michael's Boats

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Now we have no boats 2014 onwards

My first boat was a cruiser Suzi which I fitted out myself from an 'egg shell'.  Didn't know anything about sailing but I was a good boat builder!  Because I hardly ever used the boat, I hadn't the courage to be skipper, I sold it in March 1995 but have now just bought it back - January 2010!  As things have worked out I haven't sailed it yet, so far I've only restored a launching trailer for it.

In April 2012, when I sold the Dart, I purchased this GP14 from Owen.  This last fortnight I've made a new rudder for it and refurbished the rudder stock.

In 2004 I rescued a Mirror, 7892 - from the bonfire eventually restoring it by September 2006 for our grandson Jaja

I got this Topper for Jaja but I've enjoyed sailing it myself even though I'm like a pea on a drum on it.  I raced it in the 2011 Autumn Frostbite Series at Glasson Sailing Club

These are the boats that I/we have had in the past.

Our first boat was the cruiser Suzi, which arrived as an eggshell in the spring of 1979, that was the beginning of the realisation of the dream

My first sailing dinghy was a Solo, 2933,- Super's Crew, I think bought in the early nineties.  The Solo was a wooden boat so as I was unable to store it and keep it in good shape, nowhere to work on it therefore I thought it best to sell it, which I did in June 1997.

Whilst still having Suzi and Super's Crew I purchased a GP14, 10321 - Whiteboat in August 1991 .  This turned out to have been my best boat,sadly, not realising this, I sold it in late 2007, after many years, to get the Dart 15 - a decision I lived to regret.

Having sold the Solo I bought a GRP Gull, 1873 - Tubby.  I wasn't using the Gull so I eventually sold it - I had some fun in it though.

In 1998 with Denys Harland he bought a delapidated Tamarisk 25 and embaked on restoration.   Sadly Denys contracted cancer and was dead within a few months, it sort of knocked the stuffinmg out of me.  I had several flurried of activitey over the years but Suzie wasn't interested in siling it with me and I lost heart and sold the part completed boat to a sailor in Pembroke in January 2010 - not heard about it since?

In November 2007 I bought a Dart 15 catamaran.  This was an out and out racing machine but I had some memorable sails on it with Jaja and Damian.  I sold it in April 2012 because it wasn't suitable for me to race and it did frighten me from time to time.