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It cost me £620 last year with her original interior still fitted and comes with a roadworthy trailer with brakes, surely its worth at least £200? Its got 37 watchers at the minute on ebay so im hoping it will sell, cant think these Caprice's come up for sale that often and certainly not as a project like this?

Wish I'd known about the trailer, didn't know about Blue Moment then.

NB. Never made Midshipman, dipped my CW Course, I had a regional accent, big No No in those days.
Stayed an AB rate

Its a fantastic little yacht...If you read "An Ocean Away" by Dave Clarke you can learn a lot about how they sail.

I rebuilt one and did some great cruising in her, solid little sea boat.

Cheers Dave

I suspect that given the 18 month gap between posts 1 and 2 that this particular one is possibly not still for sale.

I might have said this before, but my first ever proper cruise was in a Caprice in 1980 or 81. With three on board it was decidedly cosy, but we circumnavigated Mull, got into Fingal's Cave by dinghy, went to a great ceilidh on Eigg, landed on the Treshnish and generally had a great time.

sharky wrote:Its a fantastic little yacht...If you read "An Ocean Away" by Dave Clarke you can learn a lot about how they sail.

I rebuilt one and did some great cruising in her, solid little sea boat.

Cheers Dave

Don't forget, you can also get Shrimpy in PDF free from the Bookshelf section of BlueMoment (link above). I'm currently reading this again on the Kindle and really enjoying it.

might have to look at getting An Ocean Away in e-format as it seems to be how some folk prefer to read a story, I'm still old school and like the smell and feel of a book.

sharky wrote:might have to look at getting An Ocean Away in e-format as it seems to be how some folk prefer to read a story, I'm still old school and like the smell and feel of a book.

If you have a copy of the manuscript as a file of some sort then creating a copy for Kindle via Amazon's self-publishing platform is pretty easy. You can then sell it through Amazon and get 70% of the revenues.

thanks Nick, I will do a little bit of research into it. I've nearly completed book number 2, promised myself I would never do another one but pleased now its nearing the end.