Looking for John Lonsdale - Page 2

cooolaii · 12-11-2006, 01:24 PM

Hi Pete ,ime qeurious now,where did u buy the boat from then,down this area Gib way?coz its gone pretty far up,i think it must have been auctioned when found and no1 claimed it back.

cooolaii...

Peterjfinch · 12-11-2006, 01:52 PM

Hi Coool, I'm curious too, want to find out as much as possible. I bought her from a guy in Chichester, UK. He says "The chap I bought it from was a Royal Marine based in Poole. He bought it back from Gibraltar and had it in his garage for years. I owned it for two years after he did. When he owned it, it was called "Night Angel"". He also says "The photograph of her original gel coat is exactly what was under the primer. When I bought her, she had been badly painted in what looked like magnolia. When I stripped that paint off, it revealed the colour scheme that is in the 1995 photo".

So your guess is as good as mine but I would like to find out as much as I can. Any more details you can offer, from Gib, would be great.

Thanks

Peter

cooolaii · 12-11-2006, 02:11 PM

Ok Pete,as soon as i come across this bloke i sold it too ile ask him what really happend to it,but ime not to sure if he bought it from gib again,maybe it was recoverd from spain and taken back into gib again ,and then sold could be that,what colour was underneath the magnolia and before the original gel,coz i think this bloke i sold it to ,did not paint it in magnolia.the pics wacky posted on my behalf is the best i could do,but i might be able to do better if i scan them,that was from my mobile to pc.

cooolaii

Peterjfinch · 12-11-2006, 02:19 PM

Hi Coool, I would like to know all about her. the original gel was blue, with white gel number plaques. The paint, under tha magnolia was the colours in your pictures + a dayglow orange / Red around the engine bay. Any pictures or any information, you could get mem, would be great.

Thanks again.

Peter

Peterjfinch · 13-11-2006, 06:09 PM

Hi Coool, the plot thickens. I got the following information from the guy I bought her from. "all the boats that were for sale at the yard when I bought the Phantom were bought at auction from the Royal Navy. They were confiscated by the Navy for smuggling around the Gibraltar area and ended up in Blanford Army camp in Dorset. They were bought by an Army soldier before being bought by the Royal Marine in Hamworthy, Poole."

Interesting huh.

Peter

cooolaii · 13-11-2006, 10:45 PM

Hi Pete ,thats strange coz when the Navy came down to take our boats,well we can call that stealing better,as when we went to the berthings the following morning the boats where not there,they just cut lines and took them during the nite,the only thing they left as was a souveniour the pudlock,but the strange thing was that they came down for ribs only,and ime 100'% sure about that ,as i lost my 23 foot cobra with a 225 yami brand new just bought from picton boats a few months before,that would also be intresting to find out were that is in the uk,there was 1 more cobra identicall to mine as we both bought together,the last thing i heard a few years ago and that was talking straight with Steve i think his name is form picton boats that the scouts group had it ,i dont remember to good.

Maxim Gibson · 13-11-2006, 11:04 PM

This and a similar blue ring came from an auction in the south somewhere here after being confiscated out of Gibralter.....
Do you know how to find out about these auctions at all?
Max

cooolaii · 13-11-2006, 11:08 PM

Hi Max,i know tha boat it belonged to a chap called Giovanni down ere,but offcourse not with that engine.

cooolaii

Maxim Gibson · 13-11-2006, 11:18 PM

Cool, I've been searching the internet and it seems I'd have to make some direct contacts to find out when auctions were coming up.
Do they regularly come round and confiscate boats? I guess they have to have some hard evidence against it?

cooolaii · 13-11-2006, 11:35 PM

Max i aint really into autions but ,if u see the ammount of ribs hulls and allsorts there is ,ur jaw would drop,i actually went round to a compound in spain a few months ago,and i got told by the owner that i would have to check internet too for dates ,which i never did look,but ile find out.and about the hard evidence ,this aint the uk where its much more flexible to own a boat,if u dont have insurance for the vessel to go out @ sea U LOOSE IT,if u dont have the appropiate certificate to drive it,U MIGHT LOOSE IT,if u dont have anything according to the spanish authoroties up to date ,ur boat is HISTORY m8,especially if its suspicious in some sort of dodgy bussiness.and all the pics off ribs in this forum that have been posted today with 4 or 5 engines ,well the guy that said that they will all end one on top off unother ,beleive him thats so true.

Peterjfinch · 14-11-2006, 07:59 AM

Hi Coool, I've also found oyt that she had an adhesive number on her too, It was "G1205", I presume that's a Gib number.

Peter

Maxim Gibson · 14-11-2006, 08:38 AM

Sounds like a registration number of some sort, like the G665 on the black phantom

Tony Davis · 14-11-2006, 08:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Peterjfinch
were bought by an Army soldier before being bought by the Royal Marine in Hamworthy, Poole."

Interesting huh.

Peter

I remember seeing a lorry load of them being delivered to the marines camp in Poole a few years ago. Alistair Mitchell, the previous owner of "mambokings" Extreme 24 bought one I think.