Deep in the hold I recently found footage of Toucando's early days. Painstaking restoration has allowed this significant material to be made available to the public. Thanks must go to all the photographers for recording the life of this unique turn of the century yacht.
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Sunday, 25 September 2011
Saturday, 24 September 2011
Toucando's film career - Inspector George Gently
One of Toucando's starring roles was as the yacht of Gunter Schmeichel, the ex-Nazi bomber, whose murder was solved by Inspector George Gently (Martin Shaw) and his hapless assistant ,Sergeant John Bacchus (Lee Ingleby). Here they are coming on board to collect clues.
The relevant clip can now be seen on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWcixaJi5GA&feature=related
The relevant clip can now be seen on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWcixaJi5GA&feature=related
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
A proper summer weekend
Most weekends this summer have been marred by: 1. too much wind; 2. too little wind; 3. rain; 4. plague... etc.. In other words a typical British summer. This one was rather better. Charlotte and Michele joined Toucando on Friday, and after a crab salad we set off for Yarmouth. We had a pretty good sail down Southampton Water, then tacked down the western Solent. Yarmouth unfortunately had its "Harbour Full" sign up, so we went to Lymington instead. We had a few exciting minutes stuck on the mud by the Lymington River channel, but were helped off by a passing rib (rigid inflatable boat). We stayed on the excellent Dan Bran pontoon.
On Saturday we had thought about going to Poole, but it would have meant a ridiculously early start, so we went with the tide to Gosport instead. Haslar Marina gave us a good berth - easy to get on and off. We had a walk around the town centre and up to Royal Clarence yard: then curry on board Toucando and a viewing of "Deep Water" the documentary about Donald Crowhurst's ill fated participation in the 1968 Sunday Times Round the World Race.
On Sunday we thought we would take advantage of the tide and sail east first towards the Nab Tower and then come back into the Solent and up to Southampton with the tide. It all worked very well. We went on every point of sail and only had to tack twice to get all the way back from the Nab to Weston Shore and the entrance to the River Itchen. Thanks to Charlotte, Michele and some decent summer weather.
I am going to try and upload a video: let's hope it works.
On Saturday we had thought about going to Poole, but it would have meant a ridiculously early start, so we went with the tide to Gosport instead. Haslar Marina gave us a good berth - easy to get on and off. We had a walk around the town centre and up to Royal Clarence yard: then curry on board Toucando and a viewing of "Deep Water" the documentary about Donald Crowhurst's ill fated participation in the 1968 Sunday Times Round the World Race.
On Sunday we thought we would take advantage of the tide and sail east first towards the Nab Tower and then come back into the Solent and up to Southampton with the tide. It all worked very well. We went on every point of sail and only had to tack twice to get all the way back from the Nab to Weston Shore and the entrance to the River Itchen. Thanks to Charlotte, Michele and some decent summer weather.
I am going to try and upload a video: let's hope it works.
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