The Blue Nile Sailing Club as it is today,I had heard a restoration of General Gordons gun ship had been started,when I was there,the gun boat was beached in an accesable and vertical position on the far river bank.
Morgan Giles,designer of the Khartoum One Design
A Roy McBride photo,taken with a Canon FT 35mm film camera with a Canon 1:3.5(model53203) 200mm tele lens,the film was Kodaks Ektachrome asa 100 professional slide film,simply the very best there is.
This started off to be nothing at all to do with boats (what!) but is a memorable picture of the kind of fire that can and does self ignite in Africa,I took this at Jebl Abu Dhum near Damazin,which is on the Blue Nile,I sailed a Morgan Giles designed sheet steel Khartoum One Design there,we sailed down the blue,around into the white nile and then around a small island,finishing third in the race, back at the club house,a beached cast Iorn ship, which used to be General Gordons gun boat back in the days of British Rule,Queen Victorias days?
Looks like I got a mention in on sailing after all!
The designer,Morgan Giles:
Orders from abroad were also being received including six yachts built of galvanised mild steel for specific use on the River Nile at Khartoum.
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