Thunderbird in storage for 33 years

[Delta28]

Quote:
Originally Posted by FLYING FISH
Certainly was Mr.Birkett.Pic attached is when Tony Hamilton had it for P1 at Cowes.

That's me on the left! Going well there! (a rare photo!) It went to a collector in Germany after that - plastic surgeon I think?
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Cookee

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Is that the same doctor that owns the Toleman / Styvesant Bertram?


Here's Private Entry as Doggone Again...

Certainly a beautifully-proportioned boat.

This is Graham's photo:

[Rob Gray]

and apologies Cookee for being so moronically slow on the uptake with your great tribute and gesture.

Rob

[Cookee]

Originally Posted by Rob Gray

and apologies Cookee for being so moronically slow on the uptake with your great tribute and gesture.

Rob

It was all Kevin's (Kitten) idea!

[Cookee]

Originally Posted by Delta28

Quote:
Originally Posted by FLYING FISH
Certainly was Mr.Birkett.Pic attached is when Tony Hamilton had it for P1 at Cowes.

That's me on the left! Going well there! (a rare photo!) It went to a collector in Germany after that - plastic surgeon I think?
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Cookee

http://boatmad.com/forum/showthread....ett#post147443


Is that the same doctor that owns the Toleman / Styvesant Bertram?


Here's Private Entry as Doggone Again...

Certainly a beautifully-proportioned boat.

This is Graham's photo:

Yes the good doctor had quite a collection at one time, not sure what he has now.

A couple of pits photos of the boat.

[FLYING FISH]

Originally Posted by Delta28

Yes...

I've moved-out of the Rear...

I'm into Vice..!


Signed... The Vice Commodore

Watch your back,Mike.He`s got ambitions.

Probably after the increase in pension.

[Delta28]

Pension..?! Nobody said anything about a pension..!!


That's what he meant when he said I've got a pension for that kind of thing...

Or was it penchant?


Anyway, when can I cash-it-in? ...I've got a deck to build..!

[THUNDERBOLT]

no pension I'm afraid you do it for love not money.....or maybe the vice!

by the way did Ken Raybould get in touch Ian?once you get that deck done then you can hammer on...have you written to WEST to see if they will help in anyway?

Mike

[Delta28]

Anyways... This NELSON 34 that you have FOR SALE, Rob...

(Along-with the very RARE collector's item ENFIELD 26...)

Subtle...huh?

Is it the one with the large, open (some would say, capacious!) cockpit....

or the version with the cosy, refined aft cabin?

(Lord, I'm turning into a maritime estate agent...)

[FLYING FISH]

Originally Posted by littlenige

If you do a search for them on Google their registered offices were in Thetis Road, Cowes - the road runs parallel with the road to the Cowes/East Cowes chain ferry, kind of behind the old Ratsey and Lapthorn sailmakers place. They were incorporated in 1968. Not sure though when they went into receivership! Late 70's?

Sounds very much like Ernie Sims bought the name in 1969 when John Goulandris was pumping money in,and Miss Enfield I was one of the first boats built.
Other than him being the money man behind the Sopwith boats,there were Greek patrol boats that we did,built at Enfield,Wootton.

Can`t think what your map refers to.Isn`t the wind turbine place in that area.

[THUNDERBOLT]

By the way haven't you got any work to do you have been on the internet all day...I bet the woods are being stripped of timber and the deer are running rampant..if you have time to tippy tap you have time to build a mock up of the deck!
is Lynn away and you at play!

Commodore Mike

[Delta28]

Dentist.

Can't thpeak... Caught-up on emails...

[Rob Gray]

Top left thumbnail is the actual boat. Have just spent a lot of money on her but now I have fallen into the clutches of the speed brigade I just will not have time to use her. She is a launch with a loo (new), a big wheelhouse, two rudimentary berths and a great cockpit. They are great sea boats and I think she pulls about 21 kts with the foot to the floor. She is pretty basic but good fun. Long range tanks. It it really honks on RB 2011 ..............

[Delta28]

Looks a good and useful vessel... and Nelson hulls are legendary. Probably why they're used by the police and by Trinity House as pilot boats.

Progress on the Magnum is very slow...Though better to "do it right" than to rush and do it badly... What I need is advice.

However, this is not the place to discuss a Magnum....I've intruded enough on (what has become..) Rob's thread, so I will revive the "Sad photos" one if that's ok. Doubtless I'll have the p#ss ripped out of me, but it's no more than I richly deserve...

Much of the talk (apart from the gay repartee..!) has been along the lines, literally, of the Shead / Planatec / Enfield developments, so I hope you don't mind.

[Adam]

Came across this photo - looking for something totally different that I could not find....

1976 CTC

[littlenige]

Great shot Adam - can you PM me a larger file copy? I can then try and digitally enhance it (told you I was an anorak). Chiz.

[Delta28]

Couple of cuttings from the early days of the Planatec Uno-Embassy....

Courtesy of Yachting & Boating Weekly and the 1974 C-T-C Race Programme

[FLYING FISH]

Originally Posted by FLYING FISH

All I can tell you is that Enfield`s built an Enfield Avenger copy for Castoldi in 1971,the design book actually states an Enfield Avenger copy,then another copy in 1976 by Allday which must have been the red boat.The yellow one,who knows.Looks like the red one repainted.

A bit more info has come to light.

As drawn March 1971.

[FLYING FISH]

An attempt to restore an abused photo.

[littlenige]

Blimey Graham! A bit of artistic licence there - completely removing two boats from the background! I figured I might as well save myself the trouble of correcting the copy that Adam sent to me seeing as you have done such a sterling job! But I couldn't resist altering the sky and correcting the colour cast..........!

[FLYING FISH]

That`s getting there,Nige.

It`s such a rare shot,shame it was a bit shot away in definition.