Bring out your boats

[philiphurst]

My old girl.

If I owned a mobo it would have to be one of those.

 

[JesseLoynes]

Okay, "Classic and Wooden Boats"

Playing it safe to start with, she's 67 years old now, so should be acceptable. Sadly doesn't get much use now...

... because I became rather busy helping build this one:

And that in turn inspired the build of this one:

She's the same length and breadth as the Hillyard, just a third of the weight. Makes her a little more exciting to sail...

 

[Alan ashore]

Who else has something by Sean McMillan? Here's my quirky little river launch:

 

[sideshowbob]

Well here is ours before it went into the shed. Hope it comes out one day

 

[Kibo]

Well, here comes too my Mason 33, small sister of Tom Cunliffe's Mason 44.

She was designed by Al Mason in America in 1982 and built it Taiwan in 1985. Not too old, but a Spirit of Tradition, as she was built with traditional looks and full keel with rudder attached to it.

 

[Redwing228]

Some of ours.

'Enfys', a Finesse 24


'Pintail' National Redwing Dinghy No. 228



Plus various project boats...

 

[tommydortez]

'Enfys', a Finesse 24
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'Pintail' National Redwing Dinghy No. 228

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Plus various project boats...

Found you Bill

 

[Penton Hooker]

Seems to be a lot of synthetic boats on this thread, best bring on some balance!

Built by Press Bros on the Norfolk Broads in 1908. Spent WWII on the bottom of Hickling Broad where she was sunk as an obstruction to possible sea-plane landing by German troops.

The other love is a classic plastic, a 1978 Drascombe Long Boat:

 

[Kukri]

OK

Old boat, 1984-2013:

New boat, 2013-now

No.1 son's boat:

No 2 son's boat:

 

[Eyore]

Four real classics there Minn. Nice.

 

[PCUK]

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Probably not classic, just very old. Pic' taken at Holehaven in about '73.
I expect she's gone to boat heaven by now.
Good sea-boat but very very wet!

 

[Eyore]

What may have been mundane yesterday can often be classic today, after all people collect Morris Minors

 

[Kukri]

Indeed. The Fairey Firefly was the first mass produced sailing dinghy!

Design - Uffa Fox used a design he had knocked up before the War for Cambridge University Cruising Club.

Production: using "autoclaves", veneers and glue left over from WW2 Mosquito production... and Uffa Fox and Charles Currey conspired to get it selected as the singlehander for the 1948 Olympics which got them Government permission to use "scarce materials..."

 

[burgundyben]

Indeed. The Fairey Firefly was the first mass produced sailing dinghy!

Design - Uffa Fox used a design he had knocked up before the War for Cambridge University Cruising Club.

Production: using "autoclaves", veneers and glue left over from WW2 Mosquito production... and Uffa Fox and Charles Currey conspired to get it selected as the singlehander for the 1948 Olympics which got them Government permission to use "scarce materials..."

Which was of course all preparation for them building proper boats...

 

[EuanMcKenzie]

My Dad's boat in HK in the 70's with mine towing behind - mine's plastic though it had a wooden mast

 

[Kukri]

My Dad's boat in HK in the 70's with mine towing behind - mine's plastic though it had a wooden mast

That's a nice picture; it shows the intermediate stage in the evolution of the HK "pleasure junk" - still got masts and sails!

 

[Rosie1963]

 

[Kukri]

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She looks good.

Thanks for the Staines Model Roaster!

 

[Rosie1963]

With pleasure - I am not really sure F.B. Cooke would have approved of the Teflon coating!

 

[Kukri]

It's a bit too good to use! Must meander up to North Fambridge en route to Andromeda's buirthplace and see if there is an FB Cooke Museum there...