Waiting for the tide
Mystery boats
This is the December issue – a year since I took over as editor and we have, on page 54, a list of Christmas present ideas. There will also be another one in next month’s issue and we’ll put them online too in case of shopping emergencies.
One of the recommendations is Finding Pax, by US author Kaci Cronkhite detailing her eight-year search for the origin and life story of her 80-year-old Danish doubleender Pax (which means Peace in Latin). It’s a great read, so we asked her if she would put together her top tips (to be published in the new year) on researching boating provenance.
Because we all want to know the story behind our boats – some for practical purposes and others for sentimental reasons – the PBO letters page is a great (and free) way of reaching thousands of readers. And this month we have a beauty – a real case for Sherlock Holmes: ‘At one time she was called Placebo of Whey’, writes Richard Rogers who now owns the orange-hulled Morgan Giles 30 in the photo below. ‘So maybe she’d been owned by a doctor or an athlete at some time?’
And there’s more. Old racing pennants, evidence of a re-engine job at some point, and ‘Judging by the items left aboard she had been lived aboard in Brighton at some time,’ he writes.
Let us know if you are searching for your boat’s story – whatever the reason. And If you have any info about Placebo of Whey, do share – it’s an unusual name for sure!