The Wooster Papers

Places

Stoker's yacht

Also the yacht, yacht, the boat, the vessel, a yacht, a whacking great yacht, the old boat, A fine boat

Stoker's huge white yacht in the harbour at Chuffnell Regis, where he keeps Pauline prisoner, locks Bertie up, and holds Dwight's birthday party.

In each book 2 books
  • In Thank You, Jeeves
    Stoker's huge white yacht in the harbour at Chuffnell Regis, where he keeps Pauline prisoner, locks Bertie up, and holds Dwight's birthday party.
  • In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
    Pop Stoker's yacht, on which he once held Bertie captive.

Connections

dealings

Inside it

Scenes set here

  1. Bertie dines on the yacht with Stoker and Dwight, learns Pauline is confined with a 'headache', and over cigars Stoker remarks that guests on a yacht can't easily get away and offers to show him round.Chapter 11, Stoker's yacht, as the yacht

Scenes it is in

  1. Bertie surveys his peaceful cottage and the new yacht in the harbour, then finds Seabury tooting his car horn with an invitation to lunch from Chuffy.Chapter 3, the cottage garden, as a whacking great yacht

Talked about, but not there

Thank You, Jeeves 16 scenes
  1. On a bench in the shrubbery Pauline tells Bertie she is crazy about Chuffy and asks him to hint that Chuffy should speak, until Jeeves appears.Chapters 4–6, the rustic bench, as yacht
  2. Jeeves tells how a fight between Dwight and Seabury became a general brawl, Stoker withdrew from buying the Hall, Chuffy insulted him, Pauline was confined to the yacht, and Chuffy overheard about the kiss.Chapter 6, Jeeves's quarters, as the yacht
  3. Bertie persuades a seething Chuffy that the kiss was brotherly, and Chuffy, resolved to marry Pauline regardless of money, plans to send Jeeves into Stoker's service to carry his letters.Chapter 6, Seaview Cottage, as that yacht
  4. Back at the cottage at midnight, Bertie finds Pauline Stoker sitting up in his bed in his heliotrope pyjamas.Chapters 6–8, Bertie's bedroom at the cottage, as the yacht
  5. The police find Bertie sleeping on sacking in the shed and, deciding he has a touch of the sun, leave him; he drops off, only to be woken by Chuffy.Chapters 8–9, the potting shed, as a yacht
  6. Carried up to his bed, Bertie finds Pauline gone, but she emerges from the hanging cupboard in his pyjamas, Chuffy accuses her of still loving Bertie, she tells him she hates him, and he storms out and falls down the stairs.Chapters 9–10, Bertie's bedroom at the cottage, as yachts
  7. Unable to sleep for grief over the broken romance, Bertie comes down for a whisky and finds Pauline's note saying she has taken a boat and his overcoat, then a knock comes at the door.Chapter 10, Seaview Cottage, as the yacht
  8. Expecting Sergeant Voules, Bertie instead finds J. Washburn Stoker, who searches the cottage for Pauline, finds nothing, and leaves apologising after Bertie insists she is not infatuated with him.Chapter 10, Seaview Cottage, as the old boat
  9. Bertie tells Jeeves of the night's disasters and Chuffy's row with Pauline, and Jeeves brings an invitation to dinner from Stoker, whom he has talked out of thinking Bertie mad; they agree Bertie will tell Pauline that Chuffy is pining, and remain at odds over the banjolele.Chapter 11, the cottage garden, as the yacht
  10. Stoker shows Bertie into a guest state-room, slams and locks the door on him, and ignores his calls.Chapters 11–12, the state-room, as yacht
  11. Bertie despairs at having to marry Pauline, and Jeeves arrives with pyjamas and a plan to black his face with boot polish so he can slip ashore with the departing minstrels.Chapter 12, the state-room, as yacht
  12. Landed safely from the yacht in blackface, Bertie thanks Jeeves, who advises him to wash, take the 10.21 to London and go abroad, and says he will return to Chuffy's service at the Hall.Chapter 13, Chuffnell Regis, as a yacht
  13. Unable to wash off the polish, Bertie finds a drunken Brinkley wrecking the cottage, is chased into the bedroom by him with a carving knife as the Devil, keeps quiet when Sergeant Voules arrives, and flees through the window after Brinkley upsets a lamp and sets the cottage ablaze, leaving the banjolele behind.Chapter 13, Seaview Cottage, as the yacht
  14. Bertie knocks at the back door of the Hall and the scullerymaid who opens it has hysterics at the sight of his black face.Chapters 13–14, Chuffnell Hall, as yachts
  15. Bertie creeps into Chuffy's study to steal his breakfast, hides behind the desk, finds Jeeves telephoning for the missing Sir Roderick, tells him Glossop has gone off in a petrol cleanse and that they are now friends, and dives under the desk again as Stoker is announced.Chapters 17–18, Chuffy's study, as my yacht
  16. Pauline tells Jeeves she will not marry Bertie after all and starts on Chuffy's kippers; the starving Bertie pops up, she shrieks, and Chuffy rushes in and takes her in his arms.Chapters 18–21, Chuffnell Hall, as Mr Stoker’s yacht
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 1 scene
  1. Over lunch at the Ritz Emerald Stoker backs Bertie over the Alpine hat and reveals she is off to stay a month at Totleigh Towers, so Bertie briefs her on the Bassett menagerie and learns she thinks Gussie a lamb, leaving him with a presentiment of doom.Chapter 2, the Ritz, as yacht