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Stormy Petrel: a man, a smack and 50 years of ownership. From CB278

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She is one of our important boats as one of few remaining Whitstable oyster smacks and still sailed without an engine.

Sailing on the Medway

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She was built in the north Kent harbour of Whitsable in 1890 by master shipwrights Dick and Charlie Perkins and fished until 1928. And for nearly 50 years she has belonged to Dick Norris, who keeps her on a swinging Medway mooring outside his house at Gillingham in Kent. CB joined Stormy Petrel for a day cruise in his home waters and to hear some of the smack’s 120-year history. Keeping a smack in working condition involves a good schedule of work, and now 77 (in 2013), Dick is starting to feel the weight of the upkeep, but he’s still sailing the boat, although only locally.

Dick Norris

“When you take a boat like this away from here it’s like an alien thing, people don’t understand boats like this anymore,” he says, as we head out into the sunlit brown waters of the estuary. OK, so let’s see if we can explain a bit about her…

Stormy Petrel comes from an era when the Thames oyster was a celebrated delicacy, and no longer regarded simply as a food for poor people. Whitstable back then had become known as oyster town, after it was one of the earliest ports to become linked by railway – in 1830, with a service known as the Crab and Winkle Line, from Canterbury; later, in 1861, it was also linked to London.

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Back then the sailing smacks were anchored off the beach, in just about all weathers, or could jostle into the newly built harbour to unload. They were crewed by three or four men and a skipper, and Stormy was owned and fished for her builders, the Perkins brothers. She would have used dredges for oysters in the summer and been used for stowboating in the winter (see CB 262).

The smacks (or yawls as they are also known) of Whitstable were as common as the Essex smacks but far fewer survive. They were built heavy to take the ground on the sandbanks of this part of the lower Thames estuary. Stormy Petrel , for instance is 25 tonnes, at 40ft (12.2m) LOA, while the longer 48ft (14.6m) LOA My Alice , from Essex, weighs 18 tonnes.

“Their scantlings were much larger,” says Dick, “and they had evolved that way to be working in the open sea in all weathers. Some, like The Favourite , were a bit finer, with a counter stern of an Essex smack but Stormy ’s stern is like a kind of knuckle counter, though she has the through rudder post.”

Stormy Petrel's stern

Built on an elm keel, the smack, with her designated fishing number 71FM (Faversham), has pitch pine bottom timbers and oak topsides with 3in (76mm) thick oak binn wales at the turn of the bilge so she can lie on her bottom. Her deck is straight yellow pine. “When she was built she was bronze fastened, and it was the practice to do that,” Dick says. “But I rather suspect that was because the Naval Dockyards at Chatham were turning to iron and steel ships and so they were selling off their old bronze.”

Dick on the foredeck of the boat he has owned for half a century

From 1928 Stormy Petrel was used as a watch boat – with a watch house cabin fitted, by the Seasalter and Ham company, moored at the Pollard Spit overlooking their interests in the oyster fishery east of the Isle of Sheppey. “During the war her old skipper Pongo Stroud saw a German mine floating near her and went out and dragged it away with a net so that when it went off it would not harm her,” Dick recalls.

The Bob Roberts connection After war in 1948 she was sold to the famous barge and smack skipper, and author Bob Roberts. “He tried to fish her again (off Essex and Suffolk) for three years but he kept going ashore. It was too much to manage on his own and to make a living in the later 1940s. He wrote about her in Breeze for a Bargeman and he sold her to his third hand Bernard Rosier, who didn’t fish her, but kept her registered.”

Dick acquired Stormy in October 1962: “It was the most wonderful thing that ever happened to me. I had first seen her as a small boy, coming into Harwich once. Later, when I was in the Royal Navy, The Yachting Monthly had her on the cover and I thought to myself – I had better get a real boat! When I first got her all her blocks had been up in the rigging, probably since the day she was launched! All the sheaves had collapsed and didn’t turn so it must have been hard work hoisting sail. She needed new bulwarks and stanchions and I did that myself – I didn’t really know what to do, but I had a lot of help.”

The skipper sounding in the Gore Channel, in 1963

Dick had been a member of the Medway Cruising Club since 1948, and had sailed another smack locally. After the service he became a history teacher, which meant long holidays with the smack. She has become very well known on the East Coast, a legend really.

The Big Refit Having owned Stormy Petrel for 30 years, and having retired in 1995, Dick decided in 1998 to take her ashore for a big refit. He was in dry dock for three years. “I had never recaulked her in all my time of ownership,” he says proudly, “and most of her planking is still original. I had help from Mick Murr, a whizzo shipwright, and we gave her a new deck and deck beams, new stanchions and bulwarks, new walings – upper and lower – and a new rudder trunk in pitch pine. She also had new hatch coamings out of 3in (76mm) thick pitch pine. She had a new mast in 1995 – though the fidded topmast is older; we’ve lost about three topmasts over the years – one went over the side!”

Re-launch

Around five years ago (2005), Dick thought of selling Stormy and approached the local council. “A woman got back to me and said ‘how wonderful, we think she’d look great on the roundabout at Whitstable Hill!’” Dick’s look says it all; Stormy will not be going there.

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FIVE “NEW” FRANCES 26s

THREE OLD FRANCES 26s are presently under full reconstruction! And two excellent renovations have been completed. Meaning in less than a year there will be what are five essentially brand new yachts of this design afloat! The FRANCES is one of the most loved small but capable cruising yachts ever devised. Find one of your own, spruce her up, and sail the world!

                                                                         ORIGINAL FRANCES DIMENSIONS

LOA: 25′  10″

LWL: 21′  3″

BEAM: 8′  2″

DRAFT: 3’  10″ (NOW 4′-2″)

DISPLACEMENT, as built: 6800 to 7000 lbs Full load 7300 to 7500 lbs (approx)

BALLAST (lead):  3,500  lbs

SAIL AREA (100% foretriangle): 310 to 345  sq ft (varies)

DISPL/L RATIO: 316 – 339

SAIL AREA/DISP RATIO: 14.5 to 15.5 (varies)

Here is the great news.  Five of these wonderful yachts are undergoing soup to nuts reconstruction. Four were originally built by Tom Morris in the late 1970s or early ’80s and in need of significant restoration, in three cases, and a complete rebuild in one. They are MA 2, RACHAEL, STORMY, NUTCRACKER, and DANSKA. Nutcracker was built one-off using WEST System cold molded wood, and her reconstruction is completed.

Just for fun, here are some “before” photos.

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DANSKA. Her maintenance was let go to the point where she needed an entirely new interior, deck, and engine.

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STORMY before her restoration.

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PETREL. She hardly needed much restoration, but a new owner spent four years improving her anyway.

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NUTCRACKER as originally built in the late 1970s. She has a WEST System hull.

PETREL has been renamed MA 2. She required the least upgrading.

NUTCRACKER has retained all of her original characteristics, including her interesting small house. Her restoration is complete, and she is beautiful.

All the new rigs specify a roller-furler for the genoa, plus a deployable Spectra inner forestay and Solent jib for windier conditions. If you own an old Frances and want to improve it, or can buy one for a reasonable price but are realistic about the significant cost to bring it up to date, contact the designer and invest in a new rig and sails and perhaps interior and propulsion that will significantly improve your boat’s performance.

The original FRANCES hull has a deep-bellied shape similar in many ways to Olin Stephens’ famous DORADE and STORMY WEATHER, so the FRANCES compensated with an unusually low center of gravity thanks to what can only be described as a massive 3500 pounds or more of lead ballast. Hers is a hull that has stood the test of time.

Two of the yachts will have the keel profile altered- deepened aft- for better windward performance.  This will replace the previous swept-up aft shoal draft keel with a more modern, 2″ deeper and therefore more effective one. Since most of the original molded keel will remain in place and an equally strong portion added to it, this area will also serve as a “crush zone” which will mitigate any possible water intrusion in any but the most catastrophic grounding.

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THE new keel profile – deepened aft for less sideslipping than the original keel.

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RACHEL’S new sailplan has more sail area to take advantage of her new carbon fiber mast with swept-back spreaders and simpler rigging than the original. The original FRANCESes were by no means slow, but the investment in a light and strong carbon mast will significantly enhance her performance.

THE NEWEST SAILPLAN (above). It uses a carbon fiber mast and simplified rigging with sweptback spreaders, a single aft lower shroud, and larger diameter stainless steel rigging. The offshore or inshore mission of each boat can be addressed by the amount of overlap of the genoa. This particular boat’s owner anticipates heading off on an immediate ocean crossing, so the genoa is of modest overlap and a deployable Spectra stay and Solent jib are available for heavy weather. If the owner ever wanted to try his hand at racing a 150% genoa for light airs and spinnaker for offwind would be a must.

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Two of the new yachts will have a short cabin very similar to this, perched atop the midship raised deck. The perception of space this lends to the interior is quite amazing. And it enables one to sit upright on settees or berths.

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Here’s the DANSKA, now FULL CIRCLE’s arrangement with commentary by Chuck.

Let me walk you through it.  I hate conventional sail lockers. I am claustrophobic, so if I ever have to work on the stuffing box, after trying to get a too big sailbag or ten to give birth through a too small opening, against the force of gravity, once I get down in there trying to sit on a sloping inside of a hull, I have visions of the lid falling shut and the little haspy locky thing engaging and I can’t get out. It actually happened to a friend of mine, on a day when nobody was around the boatyard so screaming wasn’t going to be heard. He survived but it is a story I will never forget. So on the port side it is completely open to the interior, there is a flat floor clad with teak and holly vinyl, and you can sit there comfortably after SLIDING the sailbags and the heavy spare anchor out- no lifting! The opening into the aft end of the engine and stuffing box will be huge, so maintenance will actually get done and if the boat is taking on water and the most likely culprit is the stuffing box you can get to it STAT. On the starboard side there is a shorter flat floor, which will accommodate one of those wonderful Coleman cooler thingies that are much more efficient at holding cold than your common yacht icebox, and if you want to you can buy the 12 volt electrical one and actually make ice! On the port side is the enclosed head. Only it’s not always enclosed. Its walls come up to about waist height. So standing up in the boat you have a view all the way aft into the aforementioned “sail locker room”, and more importantly out the big cabin window on that side and the little opening port into the cockpit. I’m all about sightlines, and this will make this boat seem half again larger than it is. There will be lightweight slide-up or maybe fanfold panels that can make the head fully enclosed if someone is squeamish, or wants to take a shower. Much of the “floor” is the inside of the hull thus not flat, so it plus the small truly flat part inboard will be clad with a nice bathroom flooring vinyl, so it all looks and feels like floor. The toilet has enough foot space aft of it that even Bob Perry with his long legs can fit. The galley is to starboard, and is smallish, yes, this is true. I already mentioned the aft part- just like the opposite side there is a flat floor, clad with teak and holly vinyl. Much of the time this will have the amazing Coleman cooler sitting on it. But if this is removed, and the companionway stairs and entirely removable engine box removed, one can sit there, on a flat floor, and do maintenance on either side of the entirely exposed engine. Outboard of this is a lot of storage. The galley is self-evident, except that the after gimbal of the gimballed stove is on a post not a bulkhead so as to make access into the after space that much easier. The galley sink is undermounted so an infill can be put there to create some much needed counter space. Forward of this are the two settee/berths which are proportioned to make good sea berths. Forward of this at the same level the cushions merge into the veeberth. One can simply slide one”s butt along to get into and out of the veeberth – no change in level. An infill turns the forward area into a full length  double berth.     

So what can I say in general about this interior? It would be luxurious for a singlehander, and he/she could “entertain” someone in the forward berth should the occasion arise. It would be luxurious for a couple, and they could sleep in separate seaberths at sea, and together forward when level. It could accommodate my son and his wife and their two daughters as long as the kids are not old enough to demand privacy. Indeed this is the mission I have designed the boat for- I am going to give it to them when I am finished restoring her. It is ideal for someone like me who is claustrophobic, with its wide open access to the electric motor and drive train aft, and sightlines from one end to the other. I have of course what must be seven or eight other interiors for the Frances, most of them from the days when I thought of it as a “camp-cruiser”… Toilet under a settee cushion- that sort of thing. This one is much more long-cruise friendly. fast by today’s standards, but they were so cute and stylish that owners have enjoyed every minute of their use for decades. With over 40 years to think about many attractive upgrades, these three reconstructed yachts will approach perfection! If you were to build an entirely new FRANCES today, since the Morris and Victoria molds have been destroyed, such a vessel would cost over half a million dollars to build. But with luck you can find one on the brokerage market that is old and tired and therefore affordable, put admittedly a lot of time and money into it, and have an essentially new and lovely vessel in which to range the oceans of this world for another half century. HERE ARE SOME PHOTOS of the restoration projects. These will be added to as the owners make progress.

AT THIS POINT only photos of STORMY, PETREL and NUTCRACKER are available. Here are a few. Fair warning… you get what you pay for.  And then you pay for what you get. The photos of STORMY are of what you pay not a lot for. But after the application of a lot of money and sweat, she now looks virtually new.

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THE HULL. Any hull laid up by Tom Morris’s shop is as good after a few decades as the day it was born. It’s the cosmetic bloom that fades from the rose with time. And this can be restored with enough love and money,

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STORMY’s deck restoration and revarnishing nearing completion.

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STORMY looking essentially like new.

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I LOVE STORMY’s custom curved coamings/seatbacks.

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STORMY’s foredeck.

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STORMY. She is in like-new condition, and comparable with a brand-new custom Frances that would cost over half a million dollars to build today.

MA 2 is the original PETREL, being repainted and refitted for further offshore sailing.

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MA 2 after four years of restoration. Looking good.

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NUTCRACKER after her restoration.

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NUTCRACKER on deck.

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NUTCRACKER’s restored interior.

FOR  PHOTOS OF LA LUZ , A FLUSH-DECKED FRANCES THAT HAS BEEN SAILED HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD, CLICK HERE:

http://frances26.org/laluz.php

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Plum Crazy’s Comeback for Great Veterans Race

One of the fastest and most colourful small offshore racing yachts of the 1970s, Plum Crazy, and her equally colourful owner/skipper, ‘Tig’ Thomas, are making a comeback for the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s annual Great Veterans Race.   Sailing with ‘Tig’ on his beloved Plum Crazy will be two of his crew, Bob Beesley and Rob Ogilvie, who were aboard the Half Tonner when she set the fastest time ever for a yacht under 9.5m LOA in the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, back in 1975.   The Great Veterans Race for the Westward Trophy, along with the Ladies Day Race for the Jill McLay Trophy, are the feature events of the opening day of the CYCA’s Audi Winter Series on Sunday 6 April 2008.   Plum Crazy will line up with up to a dozen former Sydney Hobart racing yachts built more than 30 years ago in the Great Veterans Race, including former line honours winner Fidelis, handicap runner-up and early Admiral’s Cup team member Caprice of Huon and One Ton Cup winner Stormy Petrel. ‘Tig’ Thomas, a lively character of Sydney sailing and past Commodore of Middle Harbour Yacht Club, campaigned ‘The Plum’ in Australia and overseas in the 1970s.  He turns 82 in July, but still actively cruises with Plum Crazy and enjoys the occasional social race with the 37-year-old boat.   Plum Crazy no longer has the deep purple hull that made her so distinctive in her early racing days, but she has a purple cove line on her white topsides and the crew will look resplendent in purple tee-shirt for the Great Veterans Race.   Designed by two of Australia’s most innovative designers of the 1970s and 1980s, Bob Miller (Ben Lexcen) and Joe Adams, Plum Crazy placed 16th overall and first in Division 2 of the 1971 Sydney Hobart.   In the 1975, Plum Crazy was again the first Half Tonner to finish, winning Division 2B but was placed 70th overall in the year that Kialoa II set the race record of 2 days 14 hours 36 minutes and 56 seconds that was to stand for 21 years.   Plum Crazy’s own elapsed time that year of 4 days 01 hours 18 minutes and 16 seconds was also a record, for a yacht under 9.5m LOA – and it still stands in 2008!    “And don’t forget, ‘The Plum’ and other smaller boats had to weather a 70 knot sou’wester before we could finish,” the veteran owner/skipper skipper recalled this week. “The crew was co-owner Max Bowen, myself, Joe Hootan as navigator, Rob Ogilvie, Bob Beesley and Martin ‘Ferdie’ Leschkau – and Bob and Rob are still sailing with me.   “That’s three-fifths of the 1975 crew still on ‘The Plum’. They love the boat as much as I do,” he added.   In the 1971 race, the crew comprised ‘Tig’ and his brother Ted, Doug Brooker as navigator, Rolly Bull and Richard Hart.   Thomas and Bowen later presented the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia with a half model of the little boat as the “Plum Crazy Trophy” for the first yacht under 9.5m LOA to finish the Hobart Race.  Sean Langman’s Maluka won the “Plum Crazy Trophy” in the 2006 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race.   Between 1971 and 975, Plum Crazy had many successes in offshore racing, winning the first two South Solitary Island Races on handicap and the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s Dunhill Half Ton Series.  She also represented Australia at the World Half Ton Cup in Denmark, where she placed 10th overall in a crack international fleet.   Thomas sold ‘The Plum’ in the late 1970s, but when the chance came to buy her back from Pittwater yachtsman John Howard he jumped at the chance. “I went for a sail with John, steered the boat all day, and when we got back to the moorings we settled the deal in three minutes.”   ‘Tig’ Thomas had two stints as Commodore of Middle Harbour Yacht C and was a driving force at the club, where he is a Life Member.  He is also a past Commodore and Life Member of Wagga Wagga Boat Club where he began his sailing career in 12 square metre (heavyweight) Sharpies and in Gwen 12s.   In addition to Plum Crazy, Fidelis, Caprice of Huon and Stormy Petrel (last year’s winner) other entries for the Great Veterans Race include Malohi, Roiaata, Lolita and Carinya. Stormy Petrel also competed in the 1971 Sydney Hobart, placing 13th on corrected time, with Plum Crazy 16th. Peter Campbell

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Outer Banks Fishing Charters

The Stormy Petrel II with Captain Brian Patteson is your best choice for enjoying the NC Outer Banks. We offer sportfishing, private and group charters and pelagic birdwatching cruises at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina 252-473-9163

Stormy Petrel II Fishing and Cruises Hatteras, NC

Stormy Petrel II is a uniquely different kind of charter boat serving our North Carolina sportfishing Mecca off Cape Hatteras. Our 61' Kennebunk East Coast built boat is licensed to carry large groups (including your entire family and friends together on the same trip). That's good news because no one wants to be left behind! With our 360 degree walk-around deck there is always plenty of room so that everyone onboard can fish and enjoy their best charter trip rather then having to alternate turns to catch a fish (like on other sportfishing charter boats).

We are fully rigged and ready to offer anglers a deep sea offshore (Gulf Stream) charter as well as near shore/inshore charters. Most all other Cape Hatteras charter boats have one set rate for a charter trip. They are legally only licensed for 6 passengers. Because we can take more passengers we are the best very affordably priced option so that you can include the entire family! Even with large groups of anglers on Stormy Petrel II, once the minimum has been met, we can price our rates per person like a headboat instead of per charter trip.

With Stormy Petrel your entire family or group can enjoy the thrills and excitement of the best sportfishing that the Outer Banks has to offer. The next time you are going to be visiting the Outer Banks and you are looking for a safe, secure and highly productive charter boat for your family and friends please keep Stormy Petrel II in mind. You just can't go wrong chartering our family friendly and big group friendly boat.

Stormy Petrel is also available for other unique chartering opportunities. For those folks that just want to experience the beauty of the ocean, we now offer various custom cruises and guided offshore bird watching charter trips. You can even request a combination of bird watching and sightseeing with just a little bit of fishing thrown in to spice up the experience. Call Capt. Brian and discuss any type charter trip you have in mind. Capt. Brian will be glad to make it happen for you.

Specializing in Groups

This large charter group staying in Avon NC found out that Stormy Petrel is even better than a head boat because we are less crowded, more comfortable, better equipment and catch more desirable fish.

Don't forget the young anglers! The best way to teach your next lifelong fishing buddy is to start them off the right way. Our big boat has plenty of room for large groups like school, church, corporate and especially families. We offer private half and full day charters that are barely more expensive than crowded headboat fishing but so much more comfortable and successful. $900 for one to ten people and $100 more for each person over ten when you have 11 or more (20 max).

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The Stormy Petrel II is a large 61 feet length overall. She was built in Kennebunk, Maine by Dwight Raymond in 1996. She has a USCG CoI (Certificate of Inspection for 44 passengers up to 100 nautical miles offshore) from Cape May, NJ to Cape Lookout, NC. In order to provide lots of elbow room for each angler we limit our offshore trips to 25 or less passengers during the warmer months and even fewer passengers during winter.

We have all of the required safety equipment and undergo annual inspections by the US Coast Guard. The hull of Stormy Petrel II is solid fiberglass. Her impressive power comes from two Cummins QSC Diesels - 500 hp each with a top speed of 22 knots. These modern engines were installed in the boat in 2017 and they are both quiet and clean burning, so diesel smoke is non-existent. For added safety our engines were recently overhauled after many years of trouble free operation.

Stormy Petrel supports all tourism in and near Hatteras, Frisco, Buxton, Avon, Salvo, Waves and Rodanthe NC on the Outer Banks.

Unlike most charter boats and headboats, Stormy Petrel II has a full 360 degree walk-around deck. We also offer shaded enclosed salon and two bathrooms right at deck level with standard household toilets (not camper style heads). There is an incredible amount of deck space, especially up front, so in addition to fishing she is ideal for 360 degree viewing on cruises and wildlife tours. Her stability while drifting in high seas is exceptional, such that we are able to operate safely and comfortably in sea conditions which would be miserable on most other fishing and tour boats.

We catch a lot of almaco jacks by jigging.

Capt. Brian Patteson

Cape Hatteras Capt. Brian Patteson, owner/operator of Stormy Petrel II, has been a dedicated fisherman nearly all of his life and has fished professionally on the North Carolina Outer Banks since 1995. He started as a local Hatteras mate and has worked hard to achieve a USCG License of (Master to 100 Gross Tons). Brian is proud to have worked for and with many local Cape Hatteras fishing legends. His extensive knowledge of the species, seasons and methods used in our fertile Cape Hatteras waters makes Stormy Petrel II the perfect choice for your next fishing charter.

Capt. Patteson is also regarded very highly among local birding enthusiasts for his considerable knowledge about the oceanic seabirds and marine mammals of the Western North Atlantic. He has spent countless days since the late 1980's guiding enthusiasts on pelagic birding trips off Cape Hatteras. Most trips go to the Gulf Stream. Stormy Petrel II is equipped to handle any large group of birders and can help you expand your "life list" with several unexpected sightings.

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Stormy Petrel offers mahi mahi offshore fishing charters out of Cape Hatteras NC

Are you ready to experience the thrill of an OBX offshore sportfishing charter?

Gulf Stream Charters

Better than head boat fishing because large groups can enjoy plenty of deck space for fishing around our Hatteras wrecks.

Great way to spend a day out on the water and fill your freezer up with tasty fish!

Bottom Fishing

Large family groups with kids vacationing on Hatteras Island often get to catch spanish mackerel on an inshore near shore charter fishing trip.

Perfect addition to any OBX vacation and a great way to get kids out on the water.

Near Shore Charters

Stormy Petrel offers large group specialty cruises for tourists to view jumping Bottlenose Dolphin, bird watching and even family celebrations.

Come aboard our boat and see the amazing ocean wildlife off the Outer Banks

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Prices quoted are cash prices. This fee does not include a tip for the crew, 15-20% is standard for a job well done. Cancellation by the party within four weeks of departure date will only be refunded if a substitute party can be found for that date. Your deposit is fully refundable if the trip is canceled by the captain (weather or mechanical reasons) but to receive a refund your party must be present on the dock unless otherwise notified.

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Why were so many metro stations in Moscow renamed?

Okhotny Ryad station in Soviet times and today.

Okhotny Ryad station in Soviet times and today.

The Moscow metro system has 275 stations, and 28 of them have been renamed at some point or other—and several times in some cases. Most of these are the oldest stations, which opened in 1935.

The politics of place names

The first station to change its name was Ulitsa Kominterna (Comintern Street). The Comintern was an international communist organization that ceased to exist in 1943, and after the war Moscow authorities decided to call the street named after it something else. In 1946, the station was renamed Kalininskaya. Then for several days in 1990, the station was called Vozdvizhenka, before eventually settling on Aleksandrovsky Sad, which is what it is called today.

The banner on the entraince reads:

The banner on the entraince reads: "Kalininskaya station." Now it's Alexandrovsky Sad.

Until 1957, Kropotkinskaya station was called Dvorets Sovetov ( Palace of Soviets ). There were plans to build a monumental Stalinist high-rise on the site of the nearby Cathedral of Christ the Saviour , which had been demolished. However, the project never got off the ground, and after Stalin's death the station was named after Kropotkinskaya Street, which passes above it.

Dvorets Sovetov station, 1935. Letters on the entrance:

Dvorets Sovetov station, 1935. Letters on the entrance: "Metro after Kaganovich."

Of course, politics was the main reason for changing station names. Initially, the Moscow Metro itself was named after Lazar Kaganovich, Joseph Stalin’s right-hand man. Kaganovich supervised the construction of the first metro line and was in charge of drawing up a master plan for reconstructing Moscow as the "capital of the proletariat."

In 1955, under Nikita Khrushchev's rule and during the denunciation of Stalin's personality cult, the Moscow Metro was named in honor of Vladimir Lenin.

Kropotkinskaya station, our days. Letters on the entrance:

Kropotkinskaya station, our days. Letters on the entrance: "Metropolitan after Lenin."

New Metro stations that have been opened since the collapse of the Soviet Union simply say "Moscow Metro," although the metro's affiliation with Vladimir Lenin has never officially been dropped.

Zyablikovo station. On the entrance, there are no more signs that the metro is named after Lenin.

Zyablikovo station. On the entrance, there are no more signs that the metro is named after Lenin.

Stations that bore the names of Stalin's associates were also renamed under Khrushchev. Additionally, some stations were named after a neighborhood or street and if these underwent name changes, the stations themselves had to be renamed as well.

Until 1961 the Moscow Metro had a Stalinskaya station that was adorned by a five-meter statue of the supreme leader. It is now called Semyonovskaya station.

Left: Stalinskaya station. Right: Now it's Semyonovskaya.

Left: Stalinskaya station. Right: Now it's Semyonovskaya.

The biggest wholesale renaming of stations took place in 1990, when Moscow’s government decided to get rid of Soviet names. Overnight, 11 metro stations named after revolutionaries were given new names. Shcherbakovskaya became Alekseyevskaya, Gorkovskaya became Tverskaya, Ploshchad Nogina became Kitay-Gorod and Kirovskaya turned into Chistye Prudy. This seriously confused passengers, to put it mildly, and some older Muscovites still call Lubyanka station Dzerzhinskaya for old times' sake.

At the same time, certain stations have held onto their Soviet names. Marksistskaya and Kropotkinskaya, for instance, although there were plans to rename them too at one point.

"I still sometimes mix up Teatralnaya and Tverskaya stations,” one Moscow resident recalls .

 “Both have been renamed and both start with a ‘T.’ Vykhino still grates on the ear and, when in 1991 on the last day of my final year at school, we went to Kitay-Gorod to go on the river cruise boats, my classmates couldn’t believe that a station with that name existed."

The city government submitted a station name change for public discussion for the first time in 2015. The station in question was Voykovskaya, whose name derives from the revolutionary figure Pyotr Voykov. In the end, city residents voted against the name change, evidently not out of any affection for Voykov personally, but mainly because that was the name they were used to.

What stations changed their name most frequently?

Some stations have changed names three times. Apart from the above-mentioned Aleksandrovsky Sad (Ulitsa Kominterna->Kalininskaya->Vozdvizhenka->Aleksandrovsky Sad), a similar fate befell Partizanskaya station in the east of Moscow. Opened in 1944, it initially bore the ridiculously long name Izmaylovsky PKiO im. Stalina (Izmaylovsky Park of Culture and Rest Named After Stalin). In 1947, the station was renamed and simplified for convenience to Izmaylovskaya. Then in 1963 it was renamed yet again—this time to Izmaylovsky Park, having "donated" its previous name to the next station on the line. And in 2005 it was rechristened Partizanskaya to mark the 60th anniversary of victory in World War II. 

Partizanskaya metro station, nowadays.

Partizanskaya metro station, nowadays.

Another interesting story involves Alekseyevskaya metro station. This name was originally proposed for the station, which opened in 1958, since a village with this name had been located here. It was then decided to call the station Shcherbakovskaya in honor of Aleksandr Shcherbakov, a politician who had been an associate of Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev had strained relations with Shcherbakov, however, and when he got word of it literally a few days before the station opening the builders had to hastily change all the signs. It ended up with the concise and politically correct name of Mir (Peace).

The name Shcherbakovskaya was restored in 1966 after Khrushchev's fall from power. It then became Alekseyevskaya in 1990.

Alekseyevskaya metro station.

Alekseyevskaya metro station.

But the station that holds the record for the most name changes is Okhotny Ryad, which opened in 1935 on the site of a cluster of market shops. When the metro system was renamed in honor of Lenin in 1955, this station was renamed after Kaganovich by way of compensation. The name lasted just two years though because in 1957 Kaganovich fell out of favor with Khrushchev, and the previous name was returned. But in 1961 it was rechristened yet again, this time in honor of Prospekt Marksa, which had just been built nearby.

Okhotny Ryad station in 1954 and Prospekt Marksa in 1986.

Okhotny Ryad station in 1954 and Prospekt Marksa in 1986.

In 1990, two historical street names—Teatralny Proyezd and Mokhovaya Street—were revived to replace Prospekt Marksa, and the station once again became Okhotny Ryad.

Okhotny Ryad in 2020.

Okhotny Ryad in 2020.

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