I've updated the ST past winners page to include winning boat and crew details as per the ST trophy. I can't find record of two boats in the current yearbook as either destroyed or changed boat names since. Would someone with good memory ot older yearbooks be able to help please.

Winner in 1960 was a boat called 'Gollywogs' sailed by R. M. Fowler. What was the sail no please?

Winner in 1971 was a boat called 'Mythbegotten' sailed by Pat Blake. Again anyone know the sail no?

Many thanks, Ross

Merlin Rocket 1063 Golliwogs sailed by Robin and Sue Fowler. Severely damaged by a Greenline Bus in 1961. Rebuilt by a couple of youngsters who sailed her at Ranelagh.
I am sure Pat can supply the details of a boat he sailed.

Is there a good story behind the bus collision? Was a group of high-spirited sailors using the boat to bus-surf? Or merely the sad tale of a road traffic accident?

Many thanks

A very sad tale of a reckless bus driver.

Was Rosa Parkes on Board?

We are talking Greenline not Greyhound!

What was the bus number?

It’s strange how one can remember some things and not others!
I think 'Mythbegoten' was 2440?
She was certainly a Keith Callaghan Hotspur 206 and built by Arnot Dobson at Aln Boatyard. She was a rather revolting pale green colour and had a terrible name - no wonder someone changed it!
Bloody quick though - specially in light weather.
My crew that year was Neil Taylor (real name James)

The boat design, builder and number tally OK - the new name is listed as Marlin

Pat, this is taken from Keiths website

This brought my name to the attention of some of the top helmsmen, and in early 1971, Richard Davies of Whitstable YC had ordered a boat from Anderson Rigden & Perkins, and Patrick Blake had a boat built by Bob Hoare at Christchurch. Others were built by the Aln Boatyard in Northumberland. 
Patrick's boat ('Mythbegotten' MR2446) won the Silver Tiller series in 1971

He says it was a Bob Hoare boat 2446

Blimey what have I started now ;-))

2446 is sadly listed as destroyed which would explain why the name is no longer listed....

Thanks

Oh yes - maybe thats right!
I certainly had some Bob Hoare boats. Half Cut was the first (2121) then Near Myth (2225)
We changed them every year in those days.
Myth Isle (2575)was the first of my Rowsell boats.
Keith will be right - sorry I have such a crap memory but it is a long time ago!
I am right about the colour though.

My boat was 2440 and built at the Aln Boatyard !

I always though the "Myths" were a good theme to run through a line of boats. Aln boatyard were very good builders they built mt last Merlin Rocket and did exactly as I asked and very well too. Arnott Dobson is still with us I had a long chat with him the other day.

When I last stopped at Alnmouth 4/5 years ago, we stayed at "The Boathouse" which I believe is on the site of Arnott Dobson's business.  My first Merlin - The Entertainer (MR 2706) - was built by Aln Boatyard, and is still sailing.

Hi,
Not sure if anyone can be of assistance, but my son was given a dinghy that was built by aln boatyard. It has the metal plaque on it, and the only other thing i can see is the number 1858? Am trying to find out more information about it if anyone can help.

Thanks

Doesn't look as if it is a Merlin Rocket sorry to say.  Boat number 1858 was a Chippendale built boat  Proctor IX design from year 1966

How long is it? Could be a National 12?

Had a spare moment and rang Arnott Dobson (Aln Boatyard as was.) Says they finished a National 12 Wyche & Coppock shell around 1960 which would be the right sort of time for National 12 1858, they only finshed one Merlin from someone else shell and that was a Wyche & Coppock MkX1 around the same time.
They did however build  no 1869 around 1966 which was their own design but not dissimilar to the Surf Scoter design.
Hope this helps.

Looking on the Twelves boat register, 1858 looks like a boat that had a number issued but was never measured.

I found the Nat. 12 list fascinating. When I was a fit, lithe young lad I helmed or crewed quite a few 12s in the 50s -- 482, 502, 508, 952, 973, 1010, 1179?, 1277, 1285, 1357 and maybe a few more. 

Then I grew older and wiser!

That's a good memory you have there Robert!!!

That's the trouble with being my age Ross, you remember everything from your childhood and nothing from yesterday!

P.S. 952 should be 925 - 'Wraith' a beautiful ash ribbed mahogany Jack Holt 12 owned by David Thorpe of Minima Y. C., sometime yachting correspondant for the Telegraph.