Wooden mobos of Southwold

This evening I went down to the harbour in the hope of filming the geese against the sunset - it was a doublle no show but by means a zero sum game.

 

I started ,looking at the local wooden mobos - they are fine beamy boats - shaped to shrug off that north sea chop. There is one here in great nick, one that is all but dead and a third one that has been converted into a nice little cuddy day booat with enough space for an old bloke to have a lovely afternoon kip and put together a good breakfast - now being left  to die

 

what a brillliant place this is

 

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15 Responses to “Wooden mobos of Southwold”

  1. 6 November, 2016 at 8:38 pmClive says:

    …..fantastic, back to normal, can’t wait for this winters films.

  2. 6 November, 2016 at 9:22 pmdylan winter says:

    two tracks running at the moment – I hope to get the internet soon and can get back to editing films. In the meantime this is something of a distraction from sailing for which I sincerely apologise. If I am £2,000 or more down on this unpleasant business then that will inevitably hit the KTL project. However, there are some knowledgeable and wise blokes who come to this website. I have learned a great deal from you guys. Thanks chaps. [email protected]

  3. 7 November, 2016 at 9:10 amJJ says:

    I’ve developed a real appreciation for geese living next to the canal. Regularly feed them now (Wild Things Floating Duck and Swan Food of Amazon). They’ll eat out of your hand. They’re clever, social, chatty, grumpy, brilliant things.

    You won’t end up down on the Mackie thing, even if he ends up with the cash, I’m sure the MOBs will help balance it out.

  4. 7 November, 2016 at 9:54 amdylan winter says:

    thanks JJ

    I used to work on a farm – there was a pair of geese there who guarded the yard. The two of them had been together for forty years. The female died so the male used to sit beside the shiny bumper of the bosses car where he could see a reflection of another goose

    he was marvelous and would come over and politely share our lunch

    D

  5. 7 November, 2016 at 12:16 pmewan says:

    I love the aluminium MOBO coach roof transplanted onto the plastic sailing boat in picture one – classy

  6. 7 November, 2016 at 4:00 pmDave Barker says:

    I was going to make a joke saying you ought to be careful about invading someone’s private space by taking photos of the interior of their boat – but perhaps you wouldn’t find that very funny right now.
    On the other hand, this could be a re-make of an old TV show: “Through The Porthole”. Now who would live in a boat like this?

  7. 7 November, 2016 at 5:36 pmdylan winter says:

    I think it would be entirely different if it was a boat that is in active use – this is abandonned and is highly unlikely ever to float again. Nearby is another boat that has spent its first day with the chainsaw. That aside I think it is always interesting seeing the inside of another man’s boat – or his shed for that matter.

    Anyone fancy emailing me some shed shots – only if they have boat bits in them of course.

  8. 7 November, 2016 at 9:19 pmTed B. (Charging Rhino) says:

    You are thrice-blessed to have found such a wonderful place to spend the year. I feared you’d be stuck inland in some dreary holiday caravan estate.

    Feeling moved-in yet? …Or living surrounded by the packing-boxes and feeling hesitant to un-pack them yet already dreading the next move? Years ago when I was working-corporate I used to move every two-years — 5 apartments in 9-years – after a while there’s the temptation to just live out of the cartons.

  9. 7 November, 2016 at 9:24 pmdylan winter says:

    we are making good progress – the ones we will not need until the next house are in the loft

    we have moved from a 16th century house with beams etc to one less than 20 years old

    the boat pictures on the wall look very weird

    there are only three cardboard boxes in the house now

    the shed is a different kettle of fish and the duck punt is still in the garden – I dream that one day I can get it inside the shed

    we are currently living in a boook free house — which is very, very weird

  10. 8 November, 2016 at 6:12 pmTed B. (Charging Rhino) says:

    How can anyone live with books?? Hopefully there’s a good library available. And there is Kindle…

    Hopefully the books are packed in the loft and you didn’t sell or dustbin the lot. {;-))

  11. 8 November, 2016 at 6:14 pmTed B. (Charging Rhino) says:

    Whoops! “…Live without books?…”

  12. 8 November, 2016 at 7:14 pmdylan winter says:

    there is a single box of sailing books beside my desk now – Scotts Miscellany, heavy weather sailing, 12 ships sailing, the defeat of the spanish armada among them

  13. 13 December, 2016 at 7:52 pmJames Surridge says:

    Hi

    The “Seal” (black one) is my Grandparents old trawler. He designed it and had it build in about 1975. Love that boat. Such a shame to see it in its current condition. My Grandfather is Donald Beale, past away a few years ago now, my Granny is still with us. Do you know if there are any plans for the boat?

  14. 13 December, 2016 at 8:15 pmdylan winter says:

    James

    thanks for the context – it always good to know about the background to boats.

    I shot that eight years ago now

    thanks fore reminding me about Bembridge

    D

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