In Pedro’s boatyard in Mahon , Menorca, where I obtained permission to paint, there are always boats hauled out on the hard for maintenance or storage which make good subjects for the brush. The day was extremely hot and I had a sunshade for protection, even so the watercolour dried almost as soon as it touched the paper. The Hillyard in the foreground had awnings rigged and the shadows under them were a glowing golden brown.
TONY WATTS
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Albert Strange Association AGM Weekend
March 11th-13th 2022
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Wells - Next - The - Sea
Norfolk
An interesting cultural and social weekend
The AGM to take place in the Wells Sailing Club clubhouse
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Low Tide, Wells-next-the-Sea by Brian Lewis
https://www.art-e-mail.com/low-tide-wells-next-the-sea-373-p.asp
Signed limited edition prints available £70
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So we know who is coming please can details of all members and partners attending the AGM Weekend be sent to Russell Read asap
Friday evening: We rendezvous at the Golden Fleece on the quay, around 7pm.
Saturday morning: We plan to visit “Rescue Wooden Boats” at Stiffkey where George and David Hewitt have been repairing wooden crab boats for some years (apparently they can take a bigger load than the GRP copies so are worth repairing). Also George is preparing a GRP mould for a sailing dinghy and David is pursuing his love of double ended Liverpool class lifeboats, which are being restored at Stiffkey.
After Lunch, the AGM
Later we have TWO speakers: father and son, Jim Ring and Ash Faire-Ring. Jim has written a biography of Erskine Childers, author of Riddle of the Sands; Ash (at 18) is restoring the barge yacht ‘Growler'.
Saturday Evening: Dinner at the Globe Hotel, Wells.
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Sunday ? watch this space
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ASA Yearbook 2022
FREE TO MEMBERS
SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED
We have articles from:
Ed Allen
Paul Jones
Sandy Miller
John Davis
Lad Lavinka
Tim Knight
Jamie Clay
Tom Holdich
Rick Powell
John Hobson
Now is the time to start your research for articles for the 2023 Yearbook!
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Photo: Sandy Miller
Firefly has been shortlisted by Classic Boat magazine for the Gstaad Yacht Club Centenarian of the Year in their Awards. To vote for what is possibly the prettiest and the most original boat in this select fleet, and an Albert Strange masterpiece, you are encouraged to go to -
https://awards.classicboat.co.uk/centenarian-of-the-year/
Click on Firefly to vote, enter your details, then scroll down to Gstaad Yacht Club Centenarian of the Year, and click on Firefly again. (Once you submit, you can unsubscribe any time, unless you want to find out who wins in the May edition!).
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It is also excellent to see the Albert Strange inspired Dawn In the running.
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Thanks to Russell Read for drawing this to our attention.
VOTE NOW FOR FIREFLY! https://awards.classicboat.co.uk/centenarian-of-the-year/
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Committee Zoom Meeting
Tuesday 8th February 7.30pm
Agenda
. Progress with Facebook and Instagram
. Progress with website
. Progress with Wikipedia
. AGM weekend; 11th, 12th, 13th March in Wells Next the Sea
Final arrangements
. Summer meetings on the water -
Book Thalatta for Brightlingsea or A.N. Other
. Updates on sailing plans for 2022 for A.S. yachts
. Newsletter comments
. A.O.B.
Committee Members :
Please let me know about any other topics that need to be addressed.
Tim Fenner, Chairman, timfenner394@yahoo.com
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Letters To The Editor
news@albertstrange.org
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Russ Manheimer writes...
Thank you Thad. You just made the last few hours of this Annus Horibilis so much better. Happy new year.
Russ Manheimer
Stockton Lake Associates LLC
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Bill Larkin writes...
Albert Strange would have liked this, a felucca style sailing canoe on the Nile, lateen rig with jib!
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Thanks for the image Bill!" Best wishes, Thad.
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Roger Robinson writes...
My little website, concerning some of the work of Jack Laurent Giles, is at www.VertueYachts.com It's kind of you to publish the link again. It is just a very simple 'wordpress' system which a local company have tweaked to enable me to put up the 'list' of 'known' Vertues. I have reached sail number V 200 now, with brief notes about all the 'known' boats: that is boats that have appeared somewhere, at some time, usually via owners or magazine articles or with references elsewhere, such as in the only other 'list' which appeared in Peter Woolass's 'Blue Book'. This was called simply Vertue, but predated the redraw of the original design for the Vertue II which was especially for grp boats with different weight distribution, and to enable them to be released from a female mould. Both strip planked and cold moulded boats have been built to this later design, as well as to the older developments of the earlier shape.
I now produce four 'Newsletters' a year, which are like mini-versions of our ASA Newsletters, but so far have been restricted to establishing which boats are actually in existence, and reporting on individual stories. The diversity is surprising, and their scattering, worldwide, equally so. You can see the latest one features those boats based in Australasia.
There appear to have been perhaps 240 sail numbers 'allocated' so far, plus 43 grp VII's moulded. The problem was that after Jack Giles died in 1969, it appears that the partnership gradually lost interest in the older designs, and the management of the business changed. 'Job' numbers became a bit muddled, to say the least, and instead of issuing sail numbers once the boats were built and launched, it seems that they were being issued with every set of drawings sold. Not all of these got built, so my real challenge over the next few years is to try and verify, once and for all, which were built and which remained as pipe-dreams for their owners! However I'm seriously on the case now and am planning to personally search the remaining archives myself and get it sorted as much as possible.
I've explained all this so that you can understand that, at present, the website is restricted only to the Vertue Class rather than having any wider JLG pretensions. But, inevitably, my research into the origins of the design have widened my own archive enormously, and I now have more than enough info to prepare a comprehensive explanation of that series of yachts that developed from the original Lymington L/Andrillot/Wanderer II/Monie/Kishti group to the magnificent Dyarchy and onwards right through to the grp 'Giles 38'. But so prolific and varied was Giles that there are other whole, similar 'dynasties' of designs, as I like to call them, that group around boats like the Salars, Maid of Malham, etc etc etc!
So my little website is much too limited to pretend to be a Jack Laurent Giles site as yet: small steps, still to come!
Roger
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Not many people realise that the yacht designer Jack Laurent Giles was born and brought up in Scarborough and most likely knew most or all of the Scarborough Sailing Club as he lived within a stone's throw of the homes of Albert Strange, Frank Mason and other club members who lived on the South Cliff.
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John Hobson writes...
Following a pleasant and informative telephone conversation with Ex- Scarborough Yacht Club member Mike Pease (see Letters To The Editor January 2022) I was very pleased to accept these Humber Yawl Club magazines from the 1960's on behalf of the Albert Strange Association.
In exchange I was able to send Mike a brand new copy of The History Of Scarborough Yacht Club by ASA founder Bill James.
I am happy to scan and forward articles from these HYC magazines for any ASA member.
John.
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Scarborough Museums and Art Gallery Trust employee and ASA member Tim Knight has kindly sent us this snap to whet our appetites for the latest exhibition of items from the stores.
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Sold At Auction In Scarborough
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This interesting watercolour by Albert Strange realised £180 on Saturday 29 January at Duggleby's Salerooms. If the new owner is reading this perhaps they would make themselves known.
news@albertstrange.org
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Island of the Lost, Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
by Joan Druett
Review Paul Jones, Pacifica, California
Joan Druett is a marine historian and writer and her expertise comes to life in this account of two shipwrecks on a sub-Antarctic island located 285 miles south of New Zealand. It’s often said that reality tops fiction, and this is certainly the case when two ships were cast upon the rocks just months apart on opposite sides of a fairly small, uninhabited and inhospitable archipelago - and the two parties never became aware of each other’s presence. The surviving mariners soon found out that the Auckland Islands were anything but welcoming or bountiful.
Using journals of the men, newspaper reports and other historical information, Druett weaves a dramatic account of two captains and their crews struggle to survive in freezing temperatures, howling winds, driving rain and snow, with little to eat on the Auckland Islands. She paints not only a story of survival, but one of how the temperament and leadership skills of the two captains hold the key to the outcomes of the trials and tribulations of their respective crews.
The story starts when the 56-ton schooner Grafton, led by Captain Thomas Musgrave of Britain, wrecks in January of 1864. His crew consisted of a French gold miner named François Raynal, an Azorean cook, a stoic Norwegian and a young Englishman. They were on a scouting trip looking for mining and sealing opportunities when they were overtaken by a huge storm and dashed upon a rocky shore.
The captain loses no time in getting provisions and a sick crew member off the ship (quite perilous, I might add). He then works with his men to make a shelter, find food and water, and generally plan for an extended stay. This he does by allowing them to express their views, tap into their own skills, and build a sense of camaraderie.
In May of that year, an 1,100-ton Scottish ship struck a reef on the NE side of the island and sinks immediately. Only 19 of the crew of 25 made it off the ship and onto the coast. They didn’t have time to get much off the ship, unlike the crew of the Grafton, and suffered accordingly. Worse yet, Captain George Dalgarno appears to fall into a state of depression and possibly madness. Apparently, only a single person – a common sailor named Robert Holding - seemed able to hold it together.
Joan Druett does a wonderful job of telling this complicated tale of two crews struggling to survive in a harsh and extremely challenging environment. Along the way, she provides a portrait of the sea lions, birds and other wildlife of this remote part of the world, used by the men to scratch out a difficult survival. (Coincidentally, the island group is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998 and supports the rare New Zealand sea lion which Grafton and his men hunted as one of their main sources of food).
Druett switches back and forth between the two narratives and manages to impart a strong sense of hope in the case of Musgrave and his crew and further disaster and suffering for Dalgarno and his forlorn shipmates.
What is truly unbelievable is the crew of the Grafton were able to build a boat, which three of them used to sailed the 285 miles (458 km) of rough seas to the coast of New Zealand (two men stayed behind because the boat they built wasn’t large enough to accommodate all of them). Musgrave had given up on the idea that they’d be rescued. His uncle and a friend had promised to send help if they did not return by a time certain and they eventually despaired of any chance of being found. Off they went in their tiny craft across a treacherous body of water with few provisions and already in a weakened state. Miraculously, they made it. Once in New Zealand, they set about organizing a rescue mission to get their two shipmates who stayed behind on the Auckland Islands.
Essentially, the Grafton crew saved themselves; whereas, in the case of the survivors of the Invercauld, they were picked up off the island by a Portuguese sailing ship, Julian. Who knows what would have become of the Invercauld survivors if they hadn’t been rescued? Also, there were indications of cannibalism, abandonment of the weak and starving, and acts of violence among Dalgarno’s men. While only 3 of the original 19 men survived from the Invercauld, all 5 of Captain Musgrave’s men made those arduous 20 months before being delivered back to civilization.
The book in hardcover is 284 pages, is published in 2007 by Algonquin Books, and is readily available online, in libraries and as an Audiobook (I listened to a sample of the audio version and it sounded well done).
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An illustration from The Boys Own Paper c. 1900
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It says the Yawl, illustrated-top left, is also known as the Dandy rig.
This illustration, left, kindly provided by Tim Knight also shows a Dandy rig where the mizzen appears to be about 12' forward of the stern and forward of the rudder (if not the steering position) which would incline some to call her a ketch. Is there anyone with more specialist knowledge prepared to stick their neck out and enlighten us with a proper definition of a Dandy Rig?
news@
albertstrange.org
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IN THE
GALLEY
WITH
DOLLY NORRIS
Here is one by Kristen Farmer Hall that I found on the internet, I have not tried it yet but it looks lovely so if anyone does try it, let us know if it turns out alright.
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Sweet Potato Pavé
Super-thin slices of sweet potato are key to the finished texture and shape of these crispy bites. Use a mandoline for the best results, stabbing the last bit of potato with a fork to keep fingers safe.
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Ingredient
- 1 garlic head, top cut off to expose cloves
- 1 tablespoon olive oil, plus more for greasing pan
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons fresh thyme leaves
- 3/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 3 3/4 pounds sweet potatoes (about 6 medium potatoes), peeled
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
- Flaky sea salt, for sprinkling
- Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Drizzle garlic cloves with oil and wrap garlic head in aluminum foil. Bake in preheated oven until cloves are very tender, about 45 minutes. Set aside.
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Lightly grease a 9- x 5-inch loaf pan with olive oil and line with parchment paper allowing 2 inches of overhang on both long sides. Place kosher salt and 5 roasted garlic cloves in a large bowl; using the back of a spoon, smash into a paste. Whisk in cream, thyme and pepper. Set aside.
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Using a mandoline, thinly slice potatoes lengthwise into 1/16-inch-thick slices. Add sweet potatoes to cream mixture; toss gently to coat. Layer potato slices in bottom of prepared pan, slightly overlapping to create a shingled layer, trimming potato slices if needed. Continue layering, pressing occasionally, until potatoes are about 1/2 inch from top of pan. Discard remaining cream and potatoes.
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Fold excess parchment over potatoes and cover pan with aluminum foil. Bake at 350°F until potatoes are tender, about 2 hours. Remove foil from pan, leaving parchment in place. Let cool 2 hours at room temperature. Place a second 9- x 5-inch loaf pan on top of cooled pavé in pan, and weigh it down with unopened canned goods. Refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.
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Carefully remove top pan and weights. Pour off any accumulated liquid around pavé. Invert pavé onto a cutting board; remove and discard parchment paper. Cut pavé crosswise into 8 slices. Place slices on a rimmed baking sheet and refrigerate 20 minutes or up to 4 hours.
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Preheat oven to 500°F with rack in upper third of oven. Brush pavé slices generously with melted butter and arrange in a single layer on baking sheet. Bake until bottom edges are browned, 6 to 10 minutes. Invert pavé onto a serving platter, and sprinkle with flaky sea salt. Serve hot.
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Photo courtesy of Geoff Panton who is not sure of the date. any suggestions?
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Continuing the traveler's tales of our very own octogenarian adventurer, and sometime Gentleman's Gentleman Michael Kiljan.
Having wandered about Europe for a year he finally reappeared in the UK but almost immediately escaped to Colorado USA.
He was rumoured to have reappeared in Venice but this mysterious snap of our man has now materialised and it seems to show him on the balcony of a ski chalet having apparently stolen some clothing off an Alpine washing line.
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Caption Contest Submissions
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"Save the flinching I have your inside leg to measure next."
Stephen Bartlett
You put your right leg in...
Miss McDuff
Joan and Giles held this position right up to the out break of the first world war
Tim Knight
What if the Okey Kokey is what it's all about ?
John Hobson
The touch of a woman made Reginald instinctively strike out
Stephen Lord
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This Months Caption Contest
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