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Easter Cruise Vidoe

Mar 23, '08 8:45 PM
by Jesper for everyone

This is a 3 min. video about our Easter Cruise 2008.

http://picasaweb.google.dk/JesperMilling/PSketur2008/photo#5181014597318774114

Jesper Milling

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msn-puredrop5 wrote on Mar 25, '08

Jesper,

I am laid up at the
moment recovering from a total knee replacement so it was great to
watch THE short video of your Easter activities - this is what it is all
about !

At the and of May we
will be taking CIAO to her new moorings in Vannes, Brittany. We have been
waiting for 8 years for a space. We will miss Wareham where she is at the moment
but are looking forward to the new cruising possibilities that the Morbihan area
will present.

Mark
Bennett

CIAO

msn-misstress6 wrote on Apr 16, '08

Hi Jesper and other Ballad historians. I currently am refitting my Ballad,now named Temptress (Sail No 52 I think)but previously named Taranaki and I believe Skipladen. I am now trying to trace her history and ownership and have been told that she was raced in the ill fated 1979 Fastnet and was abandoned,without loss of life thank heavens, and drifted around the Irish sea before being recovered. I have checked with the RORC in London and they have no reckord of either the name Skipladen or of any other Ballad participating. I would appreciate any info

Brendan

msn-duchess191 wrote on Apr 17, '08

I have no recollection of a Ballad being entered in the 1979 Fastnet. I think I would have noticed, but might not have, since we didn't own ours then. I do recall that it was the Contessa 32s that emerged relatively unscathed.

Janie

Duchess #111

msn-baludick wrote on Apr 17, '08

I think the smallest boat to finish the 1979 Fasnet was 'Assent' a Contessa 32 sailed by Willie Kerr an ex Royal Marine and sheep farmer. I believe all her bulkheads and joinery were 'loosened' in the race. Willie lays her up in the same boatyard as 'Balu' on the River Tamar, Plymouth, England. He strengthened her up after the Fastnet in good old agricultural fashion. Instead of a sprayhood she has the front part of a Spitfire aeroplane cockpit canopy over her main hatch.

Willie is in his 80's but thinks nothing of sailing her single-handed to the Artic and Antartic. He has travelled thousands of miles in her and is fascinating to talk to or to listen to his talks.

DickB

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