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Greetings to those who where on the Monte Umbe 50 years ago today.
We sailed from Liverpool on the Spanish ship the Monte Umbe on trip organised by Transolar Travel to the coast of Mauritania. The eclipse lasted for us almost 7 minutes finishing in a grand diamond ring.
This eclipse was observed by a modified Concord,in later years I knew quite well one of the scientists on that flight.
Thanks to Martin Mobberley the film of the BAA eclipse is available on U tube
Great memories
AlanThanks Alan. This is a shock!
I was one of many, and shared a cabin on one of the upper decks. The full-board cost for the 2 week cruise was £140.
In the end we had a great eclipse despite some local fisherman removing the buoys careful positioned on the center-line (no GPS then).
Alan Sidi made the film “Line to the Sun” Thanks to Martin for putting it on his channel. Great memories indeed.Pink Floyd had just released Dark side of the Moon, and some folk on board were raving about it. To my embarrassment I’d never heard of the them !
Tim.
Unfortunately I was just too young to go on the Monte Umbe trip (15y), but I was old enough to go to Earls Court to see Pink Floyd in May of ’73 to hear the whole of Dark Side of the Moon live. An eclipse is just an eclipse, but this gig will never be forgotton! I have no regrets.
Interestingly, EMI gave a press reception at the London Planetarium in February 1973 just after the release of DSOTM, but only Richard Wright of the band attended. The others were not happy with the inferior sound system brought in by EMI. Fussy lot these rock gods 🙂
Gary
Unfortunately I was just too young to go on the Monte Umbe trip (15y), but I was old enough to go to Earls Court to see Pink Floyd in May of ’73 to hear the whole of Dark Side of the Moon live. An eclipse is just an eclipse, but this gig will never be forgotton! I have no regrets.
Interestingly, EMI gave a press reception at the London Planetarium in February 1973 just after the release of DSOTM, but only Richard Wright of the band attended. The others were not happy with the inferior sound system brought in by EMI. Fussy lot these rock gods
Gary
Indeed! I didn’t make the DSotM tour in ’73 but did go to see them at Wembley in ’74 (I was 14) thanks to a huge trip organised by our very own Dr John Mason! There were two coaches that went from the Chichester High School for Boys!
Hi all. I realise it’s not good netiquette to revive a years-old thread, however this seemed like the best place to post this to ensure you saw it.
Some time back I stumbled across a Flickr gallery of the Monte Umbe eclipse cruise, containing many, many of the passengers, including some now-departed friends from Liverpool AS, and also the deck plan and full passenger list including cabin numbers.
I thought it may be of interest to you. The gallery was posted by an Andrew Wells in 2011 and is at https://www.flickr.com/photos/69740479@N05/albums/72157629559729457
Best regards,
Mark Galvin
Liverpool ASTen years ago, thanks to James Fraser, I uploaded the Monte Umbe ‘A Line to the Sun’ video in four parts to youtube.
A year earlier I’d uploaded Patrick’s infamous Nouadhibou performance, thanks to John McConnell (audio recording)
and the aforementioned Andrew Wells (photos). Those were the days!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcc-eB78uxk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cHkGkhQp6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw5DtvJxHoY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6S44q7zBvc
Nouadhibou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQmEsDEMxqw
Martin
Many thanks for posting these Martin, it’s much appreciated.
I’ll send these in to our society newsletter if that’s okay?That’s fine by me Mark. That cruise was a great part of BAA history. If only I’d been a bit older in 1973, but aged 15 I would’ve had to have gone as a stowaway!
Martin
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