| 1)This years London boat show 2005 which was held at Excel at London Docklands 6th - 16th of January had a very successful crowd of 160.000 visitors. |
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| 2)Honnor Marine were very pleased with the position of their stand N1823 which offered plenty of space for their visitors |
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| 3)For the second year running funding had been raised for the Original Devon Lugger to be presented to the Sailability. |
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| 4)HRH Princess Anne who is the patron of Sailability came on Wednesday 12th January to present the boat. |
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| 5)HRH was welcomed by Michael Shefras, Chairman of the RYA Thames Valley. |
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6)Also present was Michael Cogswell Chairman of Queen Mary Sailability, and second on the left Alan Woolford who made it all possible. |
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| 7)Part of the funding was kindly donated by Thames Water and representative Rob Harrison kindly attended the presentation. |
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| 8)Sincere thanks must be sent to all the Honda team who kindly donated the recommend 5hp 4stroke outboard with a long shaft to Sailability. |
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9)Bob and i cannot thank Alan Woolford and Bill Eddy seen hear talking to some of the members for all their help. |
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| 10) What a pleasure to have some of the crew from Sailing Master HMS Victory; Dr Keith Chittenden (Sailing Master) with Peter Warwick Vice Chairman and rowers Jeanette Luczkowski and Dillwyn Griffiths. |
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| 11) Simeon is one of our regular visitors. He visits all the boat shows and Dad Simon Head having owned a Long Boat for many years is now one of the CapeCutter19 owners. |
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| 12)The Lugger is a safe family boat, CE Marked for 7 adults but these two visitors were just ready to go it alone. |
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| 13) Just couldn't resist trying once out for size! What a pleasure to see Charles Ellis visiting the show. Dad Dr Ellis from Morcecambe a very keen owner of one of our dabbers has ordered the Devon Lugger with a Racing Green Topland and will be taking delivery In March. |
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| 14)Talking Boats was a pleasure to our 5 visitors form Brugge who own 7 Longboats and run the Seascouts Sint-Leo Jaarboek sailing school. They need their Longboats replacing as they are quite old, and were very pleased at the quality build of Honnors Boats and asked us to quote for the new ones. |
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| 15)Always Delightful to meet our friends Harold and Jill Green who kindly travelled all the way from Byfleet in West Sussex. Jill and Harold bought out 2003 Earls Court show Lugger also with the Burgundy Topland. |
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| 16)New owners of a Devon Lugger with the Oxford Blue Topland, Rod and Lillian NorthWood from Essex were kind enough to pay us a visit. There new Lugger "Ruddy Duck" will be launched in the Spring. |
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| 17)Our other regular visitors from the North enjoyed the Boat show very much. Richard and Jon on the right own and run White Cross Bay Watersports Center on Windermere Cumbria. Richard does sailing lessons with our customers who wish to familiarize themselves with the performance of the lugger. His web site is www.teamsail.co.uk |
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| 18)Bob and I would like to thank Ken Charman who made himself available to answer questions on the Lugger, as he is the owner of one with the Racing Green Topland. |
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| 19)Trevor and Norma traveled all the way from Oldham to visit the show. Trevor is one of our main boat builders and always likes to come and see his work at such a prestigious show. He was very pleased at the amount of attention people paid to the Lugger and was pleased to hear passing remarks on his quality build. |
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| 20) Bob and I were thrilled to hear that Sam Liewellyn was at the show doing a "signing" of one of his latest books. Sam had written "The Sailor Who Dared All To Win" and we bought a copy for Grandson Oliver which he kindly signed. |
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| 21)Jim Butler and Phil Hawkins who are buglers in the Royal Marine Band based at Lympstone kindly stopped to look at the show Lugger. |
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22)We were delighted to see Christopher Johnston from Personal Group of companies which is based in Milton Keynes. |
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| 23)Alex Haig, and assistant James of Anglia Yacht Brokers who our agent in Bury St Edmund's came to the show on the Friday. Alex found a stand which sold paintings, and spotted a lovely watercolor painting of a Lugger which he bought for his office. |
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| 24)Our Original Devon Scaffie Excel 5 was very much admired and we took 4 orders at the show with more orders when we returned to the boat yard. Bob delivered the show Scaffie when the boat show finished to New Owner Richard Fitzwilliams in Hampshire. We wish him many happy sailing hours. |
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| 25)The Galvanized MK2 Scaffie Trailer which is made and specially designed by Honnor Marine had many comments made about the way it supported the Scaffie. The Scaffie although only 14ft 9" has a very roomy 5ft 9" beam and is classed as the "fun Boat", as she can sail extremely fast with her single 100sq ft Lug Sail or she is used to sit and fish from. |
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| 26) It was Lovely to meet Andrew Buchanan son of Alan Buchanan the Navel Architect; Alan who has ordered a Scaffie takes delivery in February and will sail in Jersey with "Donna C", we look forward to receiving. |
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| 27) We found that the new Suzuki 2.3 Outboard engine with the standard shaft fitted the Scaffie perfect. All Honnor Marines Boats have the BOATMARK High Security Chip fitted in them which the insurance company likes. |
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| 28)We now can if required put a special winch to help launch your boat on difficult slips. This fitting gives extra safety. |
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| 29)Honnor Marine now produced the TUFFNEL BLOCKS. |
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| 30)Bob and I would like to thank all our customers and friends who came and supported and made this years boat show such a success. |
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| Bob and i would like to thank Lt Cdr GWS Rothwell of the Royal Navy based at Whale Island and his companion Russell who have supported us at every major boat show that we have exhibited at. it is always a pleasure to see them and out special warm congratulations to Lt Cdr Rothwell who has just retired. Bob and i wish you and Christine many happy sailing hours in france. |
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