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You had to have the standard color…white although when I worked there a dark blue one was allowed,but that was under the management of...

That's not a lot of money for a lovely old boat . Yes, you can spend a lot of time and money to get her up to modern standards but look...

Th at may be true of the 9tonners but hillyard built some good ocean crossing yachts…..here a little 2.5 tonner

Apart from a slight ingress of water, starboard side-deck mid ships, this is a dry boat. The above has caused paint to peel on the...

Why mess about with a perfectly good boat that is well suited to modest coastal cruising? Some are lift keel, some fin keel but they...

I am far from being a naval architect... but this sounds like the wrong track to me. So many things have to be in the right balance or...

Yes - and bomb ketches, while admirably suited to ice navigation because of their strong scantlings to withstand the recoil of the...

Yes it’s extraordinary these navigators how accurate they became and how daring exploringuncharted waters in seemingly cumbersome square...

Indeed, but he didn't pay enough attention to James Clark Ross' SECOND penetration of Antarctic waters in 1843! I declare an interest...

The 1930's would be a good possibility I think. When I first saw the photo in your post I was immediately reminded of ' Dunkirk Little...

What is so unusual about that? Does not mean it is about to sink. "She is a wet boat with low freeboard, but drives to windward well...

Have you ever seen film of the old square riggers round the horn, decks entirely awash. There isn’t generally an issue of “poor...

A full time liveaboard friend of mine , cabinet maker to trade, settled in the Carribean and made a very good living carrying out...