1961-01-21 — Page 11

SATURDAY MAGAZINE

JAK

and

GEORGE

Go to the Boat Show

You do not, if you

are a true - blue Briton and in your right mind, walk into the Internationai Boat Show at Earl's Court and demand: "What's all this yachting nonsense?”

are

Passing seafarers apt to halt in their tracks, an ominous calm descends, and an uneasy feeling amitt- ships tells you that Your question might possibly have been more delicately phrase.

A blunderer

At least, that is what Jak Bold it felt like, after the Dally Express, who have very sport- Ingly sponsored lie whole show, rushed up reinforcements asked us please not to again.

and

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Personally, I think Jak was a Ittle unfortunate, Blundering oat he may 62, even a hamhand- ed nitwit, but his search for information was cornest, honest and decent, and i do not see Why he should be spurned for being a wee bit simple, short of finesse, or lucking in the Parlin- mentary manuer.

was that

I ask you-what a question

to put to the Mr. Fox.

For

instance the first words to site any non-natical eye In

my contrite cul- ing

that "The public

are a Huntsman 28 sports

the on

his prow,

did the Rumanian government, and but he have a very nice 17-ion uxla publisher named Barr at the hory yawi, and, what's more, he job-lot bargain figure of £14.450 said he would not mind selling each, inclusive of dinghy, spin- cruiser 1 to us.

Biggest sailing boat in makter boom and boathook. the showse big that only Jak and George were interested. that morning they'd asked Mr McGruer to lower his mains so the customers could see the rest of Earl's Court,

pumps, and, above all. dinghy with a round bottom?

Jak and I would have bought going cheap from Fairey Marine at £5,850 but for a slight mis- understanding with blue sweatered Peler Twiss the sales manager.

Two circumstances combined the entrance was a notice sint- to cupper league. The first was that his warned not to part with money" "What's 11 this yachting

... which is akin to a Naw- nonsense" was declaimed

arging you rather a loud voice. The second market bookmaker was not to have a bet. his question actressed to Mr Úts Fox.

How can you possibly not part with money? How can any frail human resisi the inskilous Boat Show it is like making churn of the self-aligning load- speech to #revivalist moeting m Cowes regatta, Where Mr Uta zomp, the echo sounders, in the world to fly at 1,000

the Hybridge raised

And when you talk to Mr Tatermuomal Lilla Fox fe

The biggest

first Mr Twiss, the

saloon m.ph., regretted that

the price

Mr M:Gruer's canny Scots gimmick is to make you remove shoes before you step Your man aboard. He says this is merely a seamanlike safeguard of his Fox goes, there goes the multi- cruiser, the comer Jacks, the did not fuctude either the infra teak and mahogany planking, tude. They follow in his wake, chromium-plated bell covers, red telephone stuck up in the but the real idea, I think, is to they slap his back, they shake the sourishing stout. the ship's stem or Miss Patricia Dawson stop callers jumping overboard his hand, they kiss his check oil in primrere or light cal, the infra-brunette figure-head they stick to him like well-bred the as-bulton sagar tispencer, prancing arcund on the pow

Mr McGruer said he had barnacles.

the orbital sanders, the hinged Mr Jimmy McGruar. up in

from quarter-lights with inggle fas- town.

Dumbarienshire, knocked up similar yawis for un Bancá Cameron, bilge did HOL have any Patricias ironfounder teners, the non-choking

Merry

"I'm like a split pea in a colander dunno which hele to Jump out of," quipped Bir Fox.

His buccaneer, manner is as erry as a May morning, his buccaneer language as briny as the Royal Naval barracks. And, withul, he is a most kindly man. face

. His fresh-as-a-dalsy blanched not at all when poor The Jak dropped his clenger. trade-mark Una Fox eyebrows which resemble a couple of blackberry bushes covered with trust, quivered for only a trac- tion of a second,

Mr Fox took one seamantike louk at my mate through his half-moon glasses suitable for quizzing ԵՐ lower deck), smoothed his snuff-proof waist- coat of brown velvet this Dad Eave it to him half a century ago), and spake thus:

"Young man," he said, "1 have railed many occans and met many people. I have been coming to this Boat Show for seven years, answering up to a Elhousand questions a day, from boys of seven to veterans of 10. Yours, young man, is the first stupid question I have ever been asked.

Us seamen

1

"We rail bouts, young man, bezduse two live on an island, and because every one of our Fncient conquerors, from the Vliding onwards, introduced Ilttle more salt water into-our- blood. We are a nation of scamcn. Take a look round this marvel- lous show and you'll see what I mean."

So we took a look round and we saw what Uffa Fox micant

Just the same. Hiene salling types, rolling main euthuislasia, CRFAMAERN fans, mal-de-mor merchants, punt-pole experis, and other astoried wal-water walinks comes nos bo teken tea

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when they hear the price.

Magnifique !

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with AM

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Reading from eurve to curve, the frilles are Marjorie, Betly, Eileen, April, Maggie, Shiricy,

to the Gillan, Jo, Jean, Helen and Ferida - all dedicated slightly draughty and ge020- of showing you the right kind (and the right pimply cause amount) of clothing to wear it you fancy a bit of sport afloat.

Fortunately, Jak and 1 membered an appointment we'd made with frogman, so we pulled the helm hard over and sat counte

Mediter- for the

el la

Place rancan Harbour

I can only Nautique, which dicseribe as tres mapsifique,

on

They've got-reat boats real water, real shops along the quayside, a seagull, under- water swimmers, sea shanties,

Like Ulla Fox said, we are a tough salt-water nation, a hardymaritime racu who po down to the sea in ships and I must say we look ever so nice when we do it in drip-dry pink shirts and illac shorts.

GEORGE

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