A proper boat 🙂

[Wansworth]

………how boats should be!

 

[Chiara’s slave]

A lovely thing to look at. But times have changed. In those days only moneyed gentlemen could afford even a 30 footer. GRP has both democratised boat ownership, and allowed the radical design changes that enable modern craft to be so much faster, more efficient and more spacious. However, history should be kept alive and sailing, it’s fantastic to see people with the dedication and the money doing just that. Reminds me, I must check how dry my XOD is getting…

 

[ashtead]

The traditional here seems to have taken a beating but more modern for those who like racing machines

 

[DanTribe]

In my youth a family friend rented a house and yard in Surrey Docks on order to build an Eventide and later a Waterwitch.
There was so much driftwood and dunnage in the docks that he never had to buy any timber.
Allegedly, if you made friends with the stevedores you could specify the type of timber that fell overboard.

 

[Bouba]

With those dagger boards it’s probably good for your Ria

 

[Wansworth]

With those dagger boards it’s probably good for your Ria

Yes further inland it gets very shallow but mainly it’s very deep water

 

[johnalison]

My neighbour had one once. We had to reduce sail to bare poles in order not to pass him.

 

[Wansworth]

My neighbour had one once. We had to reduce sail to bare poles in order not to pass him.

That’s rather negative,he may have been hovering too having tea?

 

[newtothis]

That’s rather negative,he may have been hovering too having tea?

If it can hover it's doing better than most boats of that generation.

 

[LittleSister]

If it can hover it's doing better than most boats of that generation.

It may have been the experimental foiling Waterwitch prototype.

 

[Romeo]

Enjoyed the video, but put off by "we don't point as high as a barge". A guy who is happy with his boat though, is always good to see.

 

[Bajansailor]

With those dagger boards it’s probably good for your Ria

Or leeboards?

 

[Buck Turgidson]

The term "proper boat" is one of the dumbest in use. What do people think it means?