Jan Harber

Some more photos this time from Monday 11th March, LWS 0.2m above CD. The beached SH 'Middle Knoll' buoy just indicates how the spit is...

No. She is bigger. She was designed by David Cannell (DMC Marine, Colchester) for the Shaftesbury Homes as "Arethusa" and built in...

Hull shape looks identical to the GRP boats, was she a "prototype"?

Faramir is wooden! Cold moulded. The OYC boats were GRP foam sandwich with mild steel frames which is why they are no longer around, or...

The OYC yachts were built in a purpose built yard set up by Geoffrey Williams in Penryn Cornwall (close to where the Rustler yard is...

Condolences to Pauline and the family. In the 1960s, when Ray was starting out as a designer, I worked for Pauline at the Cruising...

I believe she was originally built for the Ocean Youth Club. Here is a pic of Faramir passing Suffolk Yacht Harbour in September 2015.

Just watched the lovely Faramir ghosting downriver and coming to anchor in the twilight at Burnham. No dramas just a well executed...

"We have no reverse", shouted in a fairly desperate way, brings back many memories of our 1960s Zeeland cruises in my dad Jack Coote's...

Any one interested in the history of barges and barge yachts, might like to look at a recent post on East Coast Forum, concerning the...

No, not the same one. CK322, the smack Tiny Mite was built in 1904 by barge builder JW Shuttlewood in the Black Shed at Paglesham, along...

What a sad sight. We kept various boats and sailed from Paglesham starting around 1960 and leaving in the 1990s so for me it has always...