Classic GRP Yachts; this is mine, where is yours?

Room for one more little one? :D

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lw395 said:
But if all we cared about was efficiency, we'd be sailing trimarans anyway.
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When I asked the question in my thread, I also had in mind that many people seem to like high performance cars. I have always wondered why people buy fast cars and slow boats? I must say I enjoy the sight of the back of a classic yacht, then the side, then the front.

But for her sins Tomahawk is a very pretty looking cat. She is most definitely not a block of flats.
 
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I think that the international H boat might qualify as a classic GRP yacht
Designed in 1967 by Hans Groop with over 5000 built and still in production.

I owned one for a couple of years and only sold it as I wanted a larger boat for cruising and bought her big sister
The H323
 

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CAPTAIN FANTASTIC said:
That's a nice one, what is it?
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Thanks, she's an Osprey. 17ft 6" x 5ft 9".

fredrussell said:
...and where do you make the tea?
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In a flask, in advance...although there's room on the floor for a stove, if the motion permits. :)

Wansworth said:
...and where’s the anchor...?
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Teeny danforth, masses of space ahead of the mast below the foredeck. I could fit a couple of slim blondes in there. :rolleyes:

Easy to see the original lines of the earlier wood Mk1 boats, pre-GRP. Mine's a Mk2, probably hull 937 from the very early 1970s.

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dancrane said:
Thanks, she's an Osprey. 17ft 6" x 5ft 9".



In a flask, in advance...although there's room on the floor for a stove, if the motion permits. :)



Teeny danforth, masses of space ahead of the mast below the foredeck. I could fit a couple of slim blondes in there. :rolleyes:

Easy to see the original lines of the earlier wood Mk1 boats, pre-GRP. Mine's a Mk2, probably hull 937 from the very early 1970s.

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No prob! With a bit of PBO ingenuity, you could put a small cabin on that make it a proper cruiser 'al a Charles Stock'
I, don't understand what is holding you back..:)
 
Why did I never think of that? :rolleyes: I did start out feeling that way. I suppose with the basic skills I've learned since buying her, I could devise a sleeping-cuddy. But after reintroducing me to sailing, reefing, rowing, anchoring, inshore navigating and general maintenance, it's only now that I'm exploring what Ian Proctor designed to her provide - nice conventional planing dinghy performance...

...so I believe I'll buy a dedicated cruiser for cruising, and keep the Osprey doing what she does so well. But I'll always be glad she wasn't designed in the ugly angular uncompromising style of newer dinghies, too extreme to stay upright afloat if unattended.

PS, I love the Squib, Minn.

Always have done, and I thought about getting one. I couldn't face being unable to access shallow water and dry out, though.
 
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Right there on Google.

Edit: doesn't look a lot like a Dragon hull! Doesn't look a lot like GRP either.

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Lots of nice GRP 'classics' in this thread. This is mine, a Peter Brett Rival 41C built by Southern Boat Building at Woolston in 1973.

DSCF2656 by Rival Sailor, on Flickr
 
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