Ship Ahoy, Isle of Wight map, Long Island New York map, Ahoy Series 1947 J Dring Ltd.

	Ship Ahoy, Ahoy series IOW and Long Island maps	1947	J Dring Ltd.
	First produced	1930s	Players	2 to 6	Age(s)

Click the pictures for more			1 x playing board 6 x hand painted colour cast metal ship playing pieces 1 x wind direction spinner 1 x deck of 36 cards; - in sets of 4 cards for 1 move, 2 move, 3 move, 4 move, 5 move, 6 move, 7 move and 8 move manoeuvres 1 x deck of wind cards; - 1 calm, 1 fresh breeze, 1 strong wind and 1 gale 1 x rules leaflet View a list of the complete series.
Isle of Wight map	Long Island NY map

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1 x playing board

6 x hand painted colour cast metal ship playing pieces

1 x wind direction spinner

1 x deck of 36 cards;
- in sets of 4 cards for 1 move, 2 move, 3 move, 4 move, 5 move, 6 move, 7 move and 8 move manoeuvres
1 x deck of wind cards;

- 1 calm, 1 fresh breeze, 1 strong wind and 1 gale

1 x rules leaflet

View a list of the complete series.

Isle of Wight map

Long Island NY map

Only two rules are essential and as in real sailing apply to manoeuvring.
- tacking against the wind
- blanketing your opponent by blocking them from the wind ie. taking the wind out of their sails.
By calculated blanketing, players lengthen their moves and strategically place their yacht for baulking an opponent.A really simple and exciting yacht racing game. Moves are determined by a special pack of movement and wind cards determing number of moves according to conditions;
- calm; player cannot move
- fresh breeze; select another card and add 3 to the moves number drawn
- strong wind; select two cards and move accordingly
- gale; only used in the pack from the second round. A second card is chosen and if 7 or 8 the yachts must return to harbour immediately. If less than 7, the gale card can be ignored.
A moveable wind direction arrow is included with the game board to remind players of the wind direction for tacking and blanketing.

On the IOW map, players race their yacht clockwise around the board from the starting line and into the harbour keeping the buoys to starboard.
On the Long Island NY map, players race their yacht anti-clockwise around the course keeping the buoys to port.

Designed by K. Adlard Coles, editor of The Yachtsman. J Dring specialised in nautical games in the 1930s and 1940s. There are two other games in the J Dring Ahoy series; Shipping and Flotilla. The three games were originally produced by Robert Ross & Co., Southampton UK. By 1947, production had passed to J Dring of Portsmouth UK who produced the games with much larger game boards. Flotilla and Ship Ahoy were sold packaged in one large box and Shipping was sold as a separates package, with large folding game board and separate small box for the game parts.