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Graham has just purchased Vanikoro, and will be moving her from France back to the UK. He may be changing her name as well, so we look forward to hearing more about your adventures on your new boat.
Welcome to our group!
Welcome to our group Graham, hope you find this site as useful to you as it has been to me.
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Mike
Thank, owning a Nic 38 has been a long held dream and I am sure there will be a wealth of useful information and tips amongst existing owners,
kind regards,
GrahamI am very happy to sell “Vanikoro” to a British one,…but a little bit desappointed to know that he is intending to change her name!
“Vanikoro” is the name of the island in Pacific Ocean where La Pérouse ( the French Cook) wrecked with “La Boussole” and died and it is a very “in demand” name for a pleasure boat in France…
But, I know, there are the Channel and Napoléon beetwen us!
As I am concern, I have in fact an ancestor who was officier in the Navy at Nelson’s times ( Edward Nickoll); Her frigate ( “Hussar”) wrecked on Sein Island in 1804, he was prisoner in Verdun, … and he married my grand-grand mother after the war in 1814. He carried on his career in the R.N., with his family in East of France, where he was buried.
Good wind, however, to Graham!
Jean-claude limasset
France (previous owner of “Vanikoro”)Congratulations on Vanikoro! My Suala was also sailed in France for a large part of its history. The previous owner brought her accross from Gulf of Lyon by road transport to Largs in Scotland where I bought her in 2007.
Last season I sailed her down the Irish sea to Plymouth then on accross Biscay through Gibralter and into the Med and all the way to Kemer in Turkey where she is now based. The trip took us two months, Force 7’s in the Irish sea and two gales one in Biscay! and the other off the north coast of Sicily. We had to turn back along the Pelopponese due to viloent catabatic squalls off Cape Malea and hid for a few days in Elafonisos until it cleared sufficiently for us to cross the Cyclades and Dodecanese Greek islands. Nevertheless due to our having to beat our deadlines we had to subject oursleves to force sevens along this part of the journey as well. My respect for Suala (built in 1970)and for all the Nicholsons in general, has escalated even higher than I already held for Nicholsons. I too dreamt of owning a Nic 38 since the early 1980’s whilst studying in Britain. The 6 years I have owned Suala have been a pleasure and a labour of love in preparing her for the voyage. She is now in the right place for my wife who prefers the blue friendly warm waters compared to the cold black unforgiving north sea! I wish you many years of joy and “uneventful” sailing. (a friend tells me that good skippers never have stories to tell…. I think I must be a bad skipper!)hi, thanks for your posting, sounds like your hard work on Suala has been worthwhile.
I don’t envisage such far flung adventures but hope my family and grandchildren will enjoy pottering and cruising on vanikoro and that we,too have tails to tell like yours, best wishes, GrahamQuote:Quote from Vanikoro on February 1, 2013, 15:04
I am very happy to sell “Vanikoro” to a British one,…but a little bit desappointed to know that he is intending to change her name!
“Vanikoro” is the name of the island in Pacific Ocean where La Pérouse ( the French Cook) wrecked with “La Boussole” and died and it is a very “in demand” name for a pleasure boat in France…
But, I know, there are the Channel and Napoléon beetwen us!
As I am concern, I have in fact an ancestor who was officier in the Navy at Nelson’s times ( Edward Nickoll); Her frigate ( “Hussar”) wrecked on Sein Island in 1804, he was prisoner in Verdun, … and he married my grand-grand mother after the war in 1814. He carried on his career in the R.N., with his family in East of France, where he was buried.
Good wind, however, to Graham!
Jean-claude limasset
France (previous owner of “Vanikoro”)jean-claude, the more time I spend on Vanikoro the less I feel like changing her name so I will probably keep her as Vanikoro
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