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Cubitts

I was lucky enough to live on Sea lion from birth until 7rs old when develpors took over, my dad fought to the end to stay but to no avail, so many memories i ionly have contact with eddy williams family Tom Jones son lived on our friends mtb Ariel coco the clown in the corner close to the playing fields I saw a picture of the Magnet when you google cubitts, the fan tailed boat ex steam sailing vessell you saw was the Amazon which, as a child was woken to the sound of burning wood, however Arthur Lowe brought her and did a fatastic job of restoring her to former glory.

 

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my brother and friends called her Miffy

 

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My father owned the Ariel and I lived aboard as a youngster. He sold it in about 1953. I would be interested to know what became of her. The vessel was moored two away from the barge Hibernia

John Wiltshire brought Ariel and became a close family friend, my mum and dad lived on Blythe Spirit then Sea Lion

 

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Hello Scorcher, By a fluke I found your original Cubitts (Sp!) posting. In the 1960s I lived there on a 40 ft retired fishing vessel--Takoma. I was a young actress at the time. My first husband and I bought Takoma at its Cubitts mooring only to discover the owner of the basin had sold the basin to a developer. The residents banded together to fight eviction and try and protect the basin. A test case went through the courts--including having the court come down to Cubbitts to see if we were protected under a then new law that protected mobile home owners from eviction--i.e., we made the case the boats were our homes. Sadly, we ultimately lost on a technicality and were made to remove our boats. So yes, I can vouch that the creative colony you recall did exist! I now live in Massachusetts USA.

BTW: I watched the refurbishing of the Arthur Lowe boat described in an earlier post.

did you know that the Amazon is now lited as one of the top Sailing Yachts in the world oh and I now live in mass too near the sea

 

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Amazon is now listed as one of the top 40 sailing vessels in the world, if i remember Tacoma was moored near Ariel and next to a 40 ft watson lifeboat

 

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its a trip back to the old child hood and reuniting with Lawrence, the pics by A Norquoy where amazing I wish i could get the sea lion back into the family where is Sandra from Moet and the Penningtons my Gran used to live with Capt Tim on the Magnet

 

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it could have been after, i believe someone had added a large shed like cabin aft of miships and maybe that was where the fire started, i vaugly remember the people who owned her hoarded ton s of books. it was not uncommon to have a fire start on board as heating and electric arrangements wher crude at best. one night i wanted the light on so Cheyne( my mother) put a t towel of the galley light resulting in a burnt bulkhead in the midddle of the night. i learnt quickly to sleep in the dark after that.
are you the present owner of Amazon?

it was unbelievable to see her in such grand state and after learning of her crossing the pond i thought it was by dry ships

 

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AS 7 year ols boy ny fatherb put me to task at the helm on Sea Lion last exit through the cut, my instructions has to turn hard to starboard as quickly as possible when entering the Thames, low and behold the dodgy port engine failed and we drifted down river and picked up a mooring bouy, the Seal Lion was sold by my father to someone in Essex and I believ most boats where sold that way or those lucky enough to find a mooring took up residence elsewhere

 

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Hi Kerry its nick send me an email [email protected]

 

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wow memories
The magnet in 1960 it was owned by capt tim and my grandmother live on it with him my brother adrian used to bail out his dinghy.
Hello kes and Zoe(Thumb)
We used to go hang out at the boat house I think her name was angela where the boat race finished.
The Williams' of pendragon fame are some where in Twickenham
The crazy thing is if you didn't have any one to back you up up with the same memories those who never lived there would think you where crazy. I remember going to tea with my grandmother on the big Oxford houseboat and watching the water come in on each end of the hogged boat on dicking days. Then there was Sandra on the Moët and roger Pennington who had a big Barry with my dad about an anchor, nit for nothing who the hell needed an anchor anyway, oh yes we did when we had to leave the basin and one engine did not hack it as we turned up river to hammertons, pla to the rescue.
Fun watching coco the clown try new make up
Fun in crazy docking day watching my mom move live electric cables around the basin in the dinghy