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The Magazine THE CLASSIC MALTS CRUISING TO LAGAVULIN, OBAN & TALISKER AN INVITATION TO SEVEN SEAS EMBARKONA TALISKER RARE JOURNEY OF I DISCOVERY The Golden Spirit of Skye. 10 years old 45.8% volume. , The Master Distiller of each of Full flavour, lingering '.tJh} .. "4t?' the Classic Malts Distilleries on peaty taste. 'f'-'IIIIRflJ.ft , if ( . · ·· the west coast of Scotland - Talisker <· .,;...:e.f,e:,J ;/j,j.-- -, ,•: LagavuI m, Oban and 1:aIISker - Distillery ··:.·. As ; · ·,., invites you to embark on a rare L .:._n . .....>'1>-r..,:..,.,.- . f d . "·"(,'-" 4., JOUrney o iscovery. 'C·) I .t I . '- 'I> ' ,.. /' · "::_::\ Classic Malts Cruising is a IOBANI :.. '" '-: '<I ::-: unique opportunity to indulge ·---- ,/) in two of life's great pleasures: The Western Highland Malt. 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Distillery / ' Banbeath, ,_ _./ Leven, Fife, KY8 5HD, Scotland. OLD SHIPS AND OLD SHIPMATES BY MAGAZINE KENNETH D. SHOESMITH Rl I THE SEVEN SEAS MAGAZINE ., ., '<irlf£ tMn ££P The Official Organ of The Seven Seas Club Jim & Joy Ellard i Volume 77 No.1 Traditional 16th Century Pub MARCH2000 Lunches & Evening Meals Genuine Home Made Food EDITORIAL: After some stunning days of brilliant sunshine, with sharp frosts and brisk sea-side 1 Minute from J4 of M25- Signposted 'Well Hill' walks, the weather had turned overcast with a piddling mizzle and all thoughts of cracking open paint tins and slapping gloss on topsides has faded. However, this editorial is being written a month before publication, so perhaps by the time you TEL 01959 534457 receive this, spring will have arrived and fitting out boats will be rather more than a vague idea. (I am prompted to this line of thought by the fact that the moorings bill arrived this morning.) Certainly by the time you read this deathless prose the sun will be approaching the equator, heading north to warm the old bones. After the partying, the year seems to be much like all its predecessors. BARKING DEVELOPMENTS CO. LTO. I am grateful to a number of members who have sent me copy for this issue. I have FRESH WHARF, HIGHBRIDGE ROAD, my desk uncluttered by the gobble-de-gook that my computer seemed to serve BARKING, ESSEX IG11 7BP with it as a rather lavish condiment, so here it is. That said, I shall fall silent. 0181-594 2408 0181-594 2408 Richard Woodman. Editor For Correspondence: Captain Richard Woodman MNI THS (Retd.) Horsford Lees 73 Fronks Road Dovercourt FOR ALL TYPES OF PUMPS Harwich Essex C012 3RS Fax: 01255 506957 0181 -594 2408 E-mail: [email protected] NEWS FROM THE BRIDGE FEATURES The Honourary Secretary has written to the, Padre of the Tower of London sending a donation for the Chapel PANACEA'S VOYAGE - Part One Organ Fund and the Committee has recently approved donations of £50 be made to the Fleet Air Arm and tbe Friday 28th May 1999 Royal Marines memorials. Consideration is also being given to the Appeal for a Falklands Memorial at On board: George, Robin & Sheree Tickner, Garth Curtis & Jill Norfolk. Pangbourne. The Merchant Navy War memorial Service of Remembrance was well attended by Club Members and the President laid a wreath on behalf of the Club. After having taken delivery of Panacea, and having stowed all the various bits and pieces away, we left Hayling Island with full tanks of water and diesel and no wind. It was about 17.00 and low tide. We were warned that The Christmas party was well attended by ninety-three members and guests, the raffle raising £303, which was there was little water off the end of the sailing club jetty, and sure enough we had to push through the mud to get excellent news. away. We tried sailing from the bar, (the sand bar, not the club bar!) but had to use the engine through the chan• nel inside the Owers and all night. It was a glorious night ... absolutely no wind, a flat calm with the moon mir• The financial situation at the time of going to press is, to the nearest pound, as follows: rored on the water, with such good visibility that it seemed unreal. By the time we reached Dungeness it seemed Current Account: £2.073; Laristan Fund: £878; Reserve Fund: £15,609. silly not to go to Boulogne, and we entered the marina in blazing sunshine. Robin led us to a charming cafe that The President's donations to the end of 1999 amounted to £550 with a donation of £50 to the Royal British Legion he knew, where we sat outside in the sun drinking the odd glass of red wine, which we then had to sleep off on (for wreath) outstanding. the boat. The evening was a delight, one of those balmy evenings that we so rarely get in England, but in France seem to be tbe norm. Another meal outside made the end of a perfect day. Members not present at the January dinner will like to know that Lieutenant-Commander Frank Nowosielski, Commanding Officer, HMS Victory, dined as a guest and the President moved an unopposed motion that com• We had agreed to leave at the crack of dawn and soon after we had left we listened to the Shipping Forecast. N.E. manding officers of Victory should be honourary members of the Seven Seas Club. We hope that they will want 3-5 decreasing. Nothing to worry about, but before we had reached Dover we were getting 33 knots of wind, bang to extend their membership after posting elsewhere and we look forward to seeing Frank at forthcoming dinners. on the nose! We plodded our way into huge seas off South Foreland and up to Ramsgate, which by about 13.00 began to look like a good idea. When we were tied up in the marina, we were followed by a procession of boats all making the same wise decision. The heavens opened in a thunderstorm, and we listened with concern to a Mayday call, then to the Lifeboat trying to locate and rescue the three men on a small motor boat drifting onto NEWS OF MEMBERS the Goodwins. Applications for membership has been received and accepted from the following: It is an ill wind, as they say, and that evening the Royal Temple Yacht Club was full of very wet people who had not intended to be in Ramsgate. Monday morning with a similar forecast but becoming variable, we had a good Edward Hunter 20 Hall Lane, Dovercourt, Harwich, Essex C012 3TE sailing breeze through the Edinburghs, but once again had to motor gently across the sands at low water to take Telephone 01255 502743 the tide up to Burham, arriving in brilliant sunshine soon after mid-day. A good shakedown. Edward served his time as a shipyard electrical apprentice in Belfast, sailed deep-water as an electrician with Canadian Pacific before joining the old British Rail passenger ferry service at what was then Parkeston Quay, Most of the summer was spent doing little jobs on the boat sitting in the marina at Burnham, but we did get the Harwich, were he served many years as Electrical Maintenance Manager to ferries operating on the Harwich• occasional good sail, a weekend in Brightlingsea was very enjoyable in spite of the rain. Hook service. Tuesday 27th July 1999 Ivan Whitting 7C Park Hill, Bickley, Bromley, Kent BR1 2JH On Board: George and Gary Sims Telephone 0181 467 6705 Ivan's father and grandfather served in the Royal Navy and Ivan was for some years a tutor for that excellent Anthony, my son, had managed to convince the company he works for that they needed to entertain some clients, organisation The College of the Sea. Ivan retains a keen interest in maritime matters. so it was arranged that during Cowes Week Panacea was available: all I had to do was to get her to the Hamble. Perry Wilson May End, York Road, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex CM20 8HP We left mid morning, an hour or so later than intended, with a strong N.E. wind. At the mouth of the river as we Perry is a yachtsman, a member of the RYA and a Sea Cadet officer holding RNR commission as a lieutenant. turned to cut across the Whittaker we realised that the wind was stronger than forecast, and that the delay meant that we would be off the North Foreland with wind over tide ... not comfortable, so we returned to Burnham to Rodney Hewett 46 Albert Street, London NW1 7NU wait for the wind to ease by the evening. Once again at the mouth of the river we decided that the seas were run• Telephone 020 7387 3965 ning too high and that the wind, instead of easing, had actually increased.
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