British boat builder in liquidation?
msti...@gmail.com
From Ken Hastie @ NERowing.com:
"Then there is the situation with one of our best known boatbuilders.
Gone
into voluntary liquidation this week apparently. I won't say who it is
because I can't find any official confirmation anywhere on line and
I'm not
going to be the first to put something in writing without absolute
confirmation!"
http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/nerowing/message/4686
Matthew
Jack O'Lero
Wow! I hope it's not anyone we know! BTW - you should take a look at
this pic of Keely Hazell with her boobies totally exposed:
http://notsafeforkids.com/?page_id=2201
Carl Douglas
Not anything I've heard of since returning earlier this evening from a
trip "sur le Continent" for business & pleasure. And with all those
headless chickens running amok crying out, "Doomed, we're all doomed!",
wouldn't it have been so very much better for folk _not_ to give wings
to unfounded & unsubstantiated rumour?
FYI, a high point of my trip was being presented by the organisers, at
the prize-giving of the 17th Carl Douglas Velt & Vecht Race (held each
year by RV Salland at Gramsbergen, NL), with a wonderful iced &
decorated cake. The next peak of pleasure came when, believing that
sport is for all, I blithely suggested that scullers interested in this
magnificent cake should step up for a slice. I've never seen so much
cake disappear into so many mouths with such alacrity & enjoyment!
I can't guarantee the cake, but next year's race is on 3 October. This
year saw competitors come from Germany, Belgium & the UK, as well as a
large entry from the Netherlands. This really is a fun event for all.
The race starts in Germany & finishes in Holland, there's great
hospitality (with a vast supper after the racing)in a friendly
atmosphere, & wherever you come from you'll find no language barriers.
So why not make notes in your diaries for 3 Oct 2009?
Cheers -
Carl
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URLs: www.carldouglas.co.uk (boats) & www.aerowing.co.uk (riggers)
Charles Carroll
So 3 Oct 2009! I just made a note in my Calendar.
Do you think it would be possible to borrow a boat?
Of course you know that it would be all but impossible to get over. But the
promise of that cake! How do you let a cake like that get by you without
reaching out for a slice?
La vida es sueño y sueño de sueño.
Cordially,
Charles
Charles Carroll
Just added "Carl Douglas Velt & Vecht Race - RV Salland at Gramsbergen, NL"
to my calendar for 3 October 2009.
I had forgotten that 3 October is David Lay's birthday. Would David be
welcome? May I can entice him to come, too.
Cordially,
Charles
Carl Douglas
> Carl,
>
> So 3 Oct 2009! I just made a note in my Calendar.
>
> Do you think it would be possible to borrow a boat?
I'm sure it can be arranged for anyone making that kind of a trip to
join us :)
>
> Of course you know that it would be all but impossible to get over. But
> the promise of that cake! How do you let a cake like that get by you
> without reaching out for a slice?
Who said I didn't get a slice? It was a cake to die for, & I held the
cake knife. It was a stampede but not a fight
>
> La vida es sueño y sueño de sueño.
Esa torta era un sueño y un sueño del sueño.
(Oh the joys of Babelfish! And I think my lips may still be slightly
sticky)
Carl Douglas
Hi Charles -
Sorry about the lag in responding. If scullers are willing to come all
the way from San Francisco, then I'm sure boats, blades & accommodation
will be found for them.
Besides, if they had no boats for the race they might eat up all the
cake. That would never do.
See ya!
David Biddulph
news:496b1225-4a6d-42de...@l62g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
Apparently it's Burgashell, according to a more recent message from Ken.
http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/nerowing/message/4698
--
David Biddulph
Rowing web pages at
http://www.biddulph.org.uk/
Carl Douglas
Thank you, David. It is sad but necessary to report the bald facts.
But when it was mere rumour, with facts unsubstantiated, for its author
to have given it wings was deeply irresponsible. As with all such
rumours, that indiscriminately hazarded the reputations of each
remaining & fully-viable racing-boat builder in the UK & that taint will
linger. And the wording at the end of that second article, showing that
its author nurtures a grudge, has no place in honest reportage.
There's always been a strange desire among Brits to do each other down.
We affect xenophobic resentment of the wilder world (which doubtless
pisses them off), yet get particular satisfaction from shooting
ourselves in the collective foot. We saw this in the ways that
consumers, investors, workforces, politicians & management connived at
the destruction, one by one, of our car, motorcycle & other industries,
often with the scornful aid of the types who have now brought banking to
its present sorry pass. We saw it, red in tooth & claw, when a past PM
told us that unemployment was a price worth paying, that Britain did not
need manufacturing & could rely on its service industries &) that there
was no such thing as society.
Those nolonger employed at Burgashell form another burden on society &
on our taxes. Instead of earning & paying taxes, they need unemployment
relief & the loss of those earnings further depresses their local
economy. Worse still, their jobs have been permanently exported - by
those still in employment. It is a small local tragedy within an
advancing recession. And that recession was apparently precipitated by
the greed & arrogant lack of scruples of those confidence tricksters who
invented so-called "financial products" reliant on the poorest always
footing the increasing bill & on insurance covering their schemes'
inevitable collapse.
Burgashell served rowing long & well. But how satisfying it is for
armchair experts, who couldn't & wouldn't build boats to save their
lives, & who even despise & resent those who do, to cast aspersions. By
heaven, they must feel so superior! And henceforth they'll be enriching
the economy of a far-off country (of which they know almost nothing)
where the suppression of dissent is normal, adulterating watered milk
with melamine is smart marketing & you're arrested & censored for
protesting when your kids die in the collapses of inadequately designed
schools whose construction was certified by officials bribed by callous
contractors.
mid...@btopenworld.com
> David Biddulph wrote:
> > <mstil...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:496b1225-4a6d-42de...@l62g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> >> Can anyone shed any light?
>
> URLs: www.carldouglas.co.uk(boats) &www.aerowing.co.uk(riggers)- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Does anyone know whether this means that RowData has also gone into
liquidation as the 2 firms seem to be joined at the hip?
Mike K
Carl Douglas
Rowdata is a division of Lumin NM Ltd., a registered company in England
No. 04134336. Companies House raises no question marks over Lumin NM Ltd.
HTH -
Carl
--
Carl Douglas Racing Shells -
Fine Small-Boats/AeRoWing Low-drag Riggers/Advanced Accessories
Write: Harris Boatyard, Laleham Reach, Chertsey KT16 8RP, UK
Find: http://tinyurl.com/2tqujf
bookie
wrote:
> <mstil...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:496b1225-4a6d-42de...@l62g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Can anyone shed any light?
>
> > From Ken Hastie @ NERowing.com:
>
> > "Then there is the situation with one of our best known boatbuilders.
> > Gone
> > into voluntary liquidation this week apparently. I won't say who it is
> > because I can't find any official confirmation anywhere on line and
> > I'm not
> > going to be the first to put something in writing without absolute
> > confirmation!"
>
> >http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/nerowing/message/4686
>
that is such a damn shame, the first ever scull I bought was a
burgashell, lovely boat, if a bit bathtub like, but it served me very
well whilst i was starting out and i even won womens senior 2 1x at
metropolitan regatta in it, happy days....
pretty much all cambridge colleges had a burgashell or 2 in their
fleet and the club scull i learnt in was a burgashell too, nothing
wrong with those boats at all.
and there is also the question of whether those boat builders who are
now out of a job will be able to find similar employment in the Ely
area or even at all in the current climate, poor sods
bookie