Originally Posted by
dixi188
Yellowtriumph,
You may be thinking of the mothballed Princess flying boats that were at Calshot up to about 1964.
Yes probably, the dates seem about right, I would have been around 11 years old in 1964.
As is patently obvious I'm no expert on any of this, but I have had my interest re-lit, do you know of any interesting links where I can have a great big dollop of nostalgia of these things? - in particular the Princess flying boats?
(But my memory of that chap buying and having those two float things and trying to make them into a catamaran is spot on - you don't forget something as awesome as that when you walk past it for years on end!).
Edited to add, some 'light' googling initially implies the boats were moored up until 1967 (from the local 'Echo' newspaper).