Comments on: The Cutty Sark, Google and Cape Town http://grump.yoldfart.com/cutty-sark-cape-town/ Ruminations from a South African Dorp Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:01:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mike http://grump.yoldfart.com/cutty-sark-cape-town/comment-page-1/#comment-298 Mike Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:01:50 +0000 http://grump.yoldfart.com/?p=117#comment-298 Hi Brett, Yes, Thats me. Will look for the pics and if I find them, will place them (somewhere?). Mike Hi Brett,
Yes, Thats me.

Will look for the pics and if I find them, will place them (somewhere?).

Mike

]]> By: Mike http://grump.yoldfart.com/cutty-sark-cape-town/comment-page-1/#comment-297 Mike Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:45:06 +0000 http://grump.yoldfart.com/?p=117#comment-297 PS I am in Cape Town now. PS I am in Cape Town now.

]]> By: Brett http://grump.yoldfart.com/cutty-sark-cape-town/comment-page-1/#comment-296 Brett Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:56:37 +0000 http://grump.yoldfart.com/?p=117#comment-296 Hi Mike - would love to see those pictures. Now lets see, was it Jesuino who stole your bottle of scotch? I was also on board for the transat and i think i remember two Mike's. I am guessing you are the photographer / diver from SA? Hi Mike – would love to see those pictures. Now lets see, was it Jesuino who stole your bottle of scotch? I was also on board for the transat and i think i remember two Mike’s. I am guessing you are the photographer / diver from SA?

]]> By: Mike http://grump.yoldfart.com/cutty-sark-cape-town/comment-page-1/#comment-295 Mike Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:52:47 +0000 http://grump.yoldfart.com/?p=117#comment-295 I sailed on her from Vilamoura (Algarve ) to St. Thomas. Jack was also the skipper. Had a lovely oriental girlfriend. Lovely experience.... except when both Gennies packed up, after leaving the Canaries -so no freezer or stove (or power toilets) and we had to eat steak until it was too rotten. Dont talk about the toilets. The then-ship's-carpenter (I think Gino) disappeated one day out from Vilamoura and did not reappear until the Canaries (mal de Mer). When it happened again on leaving the Canaries, I gave him one of the first transdermal plasters. He was fine after that. Anyway, when the gennies packed up there was no electrickery to heat meat so Gino made a barbeque on deck and we burned teak to cook the food... must still have the pics somewhere. Still have the cap with the logo and a copy of the layout of her sail plan done by Sparks & Stephens. I sailed on her from Vilamoura (Algarve ) to St. Thomas. Jack was also the skipper. Had a lovely oriental girlfriend.

Lovely experience…. except when both Gennies packed up, after leaving the Canaries -so no freezer or stove (or power toilets) and we had to eat steak until it was too rotten. Dont talk about the toilets.

The then-ship’s-carpenter (I think Gino) disappeated one day out from Vilamoura and did not reappear until the Canaries (mal de Mer).
When it happened again on leaving the Canaries, I gave him one of the first transdermal plasters. He was fine after that.

Anyway, when the gennies packed up there was no electrickery to heat meat so Gino made a barbeque on deck and we burned teak to cook the food… must still have the pics somewhere.
Still have the cap with the logo and a copy of the layout of her sail plan done by Sparks & Stephens.

]]> By: Brett http://grump.yoldfart.com/cutty-sark-cape-town/comment-page-1/#comment-268 Brett Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:13:23 +0000 http://grump.yoldfart.com/?p=117#comment-268 .. Armin Elsaesser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_of_Baltimore .. Armin Elsaesser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_of_Baltimore

]]> By: Brett http://grump.yoldfart.com/cutty-sark-cape-town/comment-page-1/#comment-267 Brett Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:43:54 +0000 http://grump.yoldfart.com/?p=117#comment-267 Didn't our skipper of go down with the Pride of Baltimore?? name escapes me Didn’t our skipper of go down with the Pride of Baltimore?? name escapes me

]]> By: Brett http://grump.yoldfart.com/cutty-sark-cape-town/comment-page-1/#comment-266 Brett Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:19:01 +0000 http://grump.yoldfart.com/?p=117#comment-266 Hey wood killer/ David, how are you? Yes a long time ago, last time i saw you was in Lauderdale as mate on your next berth i believe, or was it Newport? Yes i did get up to Maine on the Bougainville. In fact many psychedelic moments on that schooner. We organised parties to sell Fritz's Miami real estate all the way up the east coast. Strolling violins and sushi while two hundred quests got the hard sell, and the crew screwed the cougars below decks... ahh the fabulous 80's. I kept sailing, transatlantic, Caribbean charters, Australia, Med, etc untill the late 90's. Since then UK, France, Singapore and South Africa. Nothing has been quite as amazing as the bullshit on the Eric Borgman. I dont know if you heard, but she burnt down back in the Virgins a few years later - resting off Jost van Dyke somewhere in a few 100 meters. I dont think many of the original crew were still on board (and no lives lost far as i know). Glory Days! Hey wood killer/ David, how are you? Yes a long time ago, last time i saw you was in Lauderdale as mate on your next berth i believe, or was it Newport? Yes i did get up to Maine on the Bougainville. In fact many psychedelic moments on that schooner. We organised parties to sell Fritz’s Miami real estate all the way up the east coast. Strolling violins and sushi while two hundred quests got the hard sell, and the crew screwed the cougars below decks… ahh the fabulous 80′s.

I kept sailing, transatlantic, Caribbean charters, Australia, Med, etc untill the late 90′s. Since then UK, France, Singapore and South Africa.

Nothing has been quite as amazing as the bullshit on the Eric Borgman. I dont know if you heard, but she burnt down back in the Virgins a few years later – resting off Jost van Dyke somewhere in a few 100 meters. I dont think many of the original crew were still on board (and no lives lost far as i know). Glory Days!

]]> By: david Irvin http://grump.yoldfart.com/cutty-sark-cape-town/comment-page-1/#comment-265 david Irvin Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:27:05 +0000 http://grump.yoldfart.com/?p=117#comment-265 Brett Was drifting around the net and saw this page about the Eric Borgman. You might remember that I was the "ships carpenter" (Mata Pal)at the time she was at the Sub Base in St Thomas. We then sailed her to Miami where we had a MOST memorable welcome party. A lot of water over the dam since then. Got a job on a 110 schooner after the EB/PB and sailed back to Maine (where I was from) and then back south and off to Australia. Returned later to eastern Maine where I have been ever since. The EB/PB came to Bar Harbor Maine at one point, were you aboard at that time? Drop me a line some time. dirvin@acadiamarinesurveying.com David Irvin Brett
Was drifting around the net and saw this page about the Eric Borgman. You might remember that I was the “ships carpenter” (Mata Pal)at the time she was at the Sub Base in St Thomas. We then sailed her to Miami where we had a MOST memorable welcome party.

A lot of water over the dam since then. Got a job on a 110 schooner after the EB/PB and sailed back to Maine (where I was from) and then back south and off to Australia. Returned later to eastern Maine where I have been ever since. The EB/PB came to Bar Harbor Maine at one point, were you aboard at that time?

Drop me a line some time.
dirvin@acadiamarinesurveying.com

David Irvin

]]> By: Tom the Redhunter http://grump.yoldfart.com/cutty-sark-cape-town/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Tom the Redhunter Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:44:41 +0000 http://grump.yoldfart.com/?p=117#comment-169 btw, cool name for a website, even though it looks like we disagree on most everything except the thrill of sailing. btw, cool name for a website, even though it looks like we disagree on most everything except the thrill of sailing.

]]> By: Tom the Redhunter http://grump.yoldfart.com/cutty-sark-cape-town/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Tom the Redhunter Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:01:40 +0000 http://grump.yoldfart.com/?p=117#comment-168 So that's where the semi-naked woman below the bowsprit came from, eh? LOL I always wondered about that. Can't say I've ever sailed on as big as your schooner, and in fact I never got out of the Chesapeake. But I used to do a lot of J/24 racing there; in my younger days too. It was loads of fun and as you well know a huge challenge. Of course, being in the open ocean on a three masted schooner was no stroll around the park either. Regards, Tom So that’s where the semi-naked woman below the bowsprit came from, eh? LOL I always wondered about that.

Can’t say I’ve ever sailed on as big as your schooner, and in fact I never got out of the Chesapeake. But I used to do a lot of J/24 racing there; in my younger days too. It was loads of fun and as you well know a huge challenge. Of course, being in the open ocean on a three masted schooner was no stroll around the park either.

Regards,
Tom

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