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Nil Desperandum


Nil Desperandum


    bonny wee boat, she still around?

    that in amble?  looks like warkworth castle in the background
    Aye Markh thats Amble.  last time i saw her she was named Lily in scarborough in 2001

    Captain Jim
    Mar 31 2010 01:56 PM
    "I saw a boat in scarborough with the same hull as Lily but she had a stand up cuddy at the stern. she was O0 down by the chicken run about that time. she looked as if she neeed some TLC could this have been the same boat she was the same size and age etc??? :D
    Aye Jim thats her. had a few names.  Lily, Pixie. Breadwinner. Gannet. Nil Desperandum O0
    where was she built and wot year
    is that not a millers built there is a boat the same as her called the lily at anstruther remember the boy that bought her spent a lot of time and money on her she was a bit off a state i think she has still got the old three cyl kelvin in her too maybe different one
    Hi rad that must be a different boat,this boat was rebuilt by hector handiside in amble in the 80s.he sold it to alfie copus who named it Lily after his mam,she was powered by a big twin lister when in sunderland till she was sold in the early 90s.
    Alfie Copus !!!!  now there's a name from the dim and Distant past. He must have been saving up for a bit, to buy a boat on his own . :laugh: :laugh:
    hector handysides  when at amble