{"id":3252,"date":"2023-04-24T16:32:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T16:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cvrda.org\/jollyboat\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2023-04-24T16:33:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T16:33:10","slug":"j17-allegria-falls-to-pirates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jollyboat.cvrda.org\/?p=3252","title":{"rendered":"J17 &#8211; Allegria Falls to Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Transplanted so not written by me)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jollyboat.cvrda.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rum-Ahoy-Me-Hearties-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/jollyboat.cvrda.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rum-Ahoy-Me-Hearties-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jollyboat.cvrda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rum-Ahoy-Me-Hearties-small.jpg 640w, https:\/\/jollyboat.cvrda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rum-Ahoy-Me-Hearties-small-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Allegria &#8211; J17 falls to Pirates and is scuttled<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once upon a time I was a young man and used to crew fireflies for my school friend who sailed in Chichester Harbour from Itchenor. Tim&#8217;s dad had a Jollyboat, J17 Allegria, and occasionally I would sail in her too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skip on many years, I thought it would be quite fun to get a j Jollyboat to show the Wayfarer fleet at Lydney YC a thing or too. After a few searches on the internet, a suitable boat was found and we set off to collect her, only to find out that the boat I had found was Allegria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, when I got her home, I discovered that the hull and Keel were in very poor condition with very little sound wood aft of the mast step in the bottom of the boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was too hard to let her go though, so she sat in a corner of the barn for several years awaiting a mammoth restoration, but eventually my head won out over my heart and she was given to another friend to celebrate her birthday in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Allegria was eventually taken by rum drinking pirates and wrecked&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jollyboat.cvrda.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/J17-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" data-id=\"2980\" src=\"https:\/\/jollyboat.cvrda.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/J17-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jollyboat.cvrda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/J17-3.jpg 450w, https:\/\/jollyboat.cvrda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/J17-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jollyboat.cvrda.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/J17-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/jollyboat.cvrda.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/J17-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jollyboat.cvrda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/J17-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/jollyboat.cvrda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/J17-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Transplanted so not written by me) Once upon a time I was a young man and used to crew fireflies for my school friend who sailed in Chichester Harbour from Itchenor. Tim&#8217;s dad had a Jollyboat, J17 Allegria, and occasionally I would sail in her too. 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