Classic Looking, ?Twin Keeler ?GRP suitable for slow circum nav UK

[graham]

Theres a Cornish Yawl for sale at Ferryside yacht Club that my appeal to you.

Long center keel plus bilge plates. Diesel engine and looks well looked after.

 

[Wooden Boat Fittings]

Interesting that almost all those nominated have raised topsides. That would certainly be my choice. My own YM 3-Tonner Sanderling (a Buchanan design) was such, and was very roomy in consequence. The only reason I wouldn't recommend her here is that being only 17' on the waterline she only sleeps two. But the bilge keels are a great advantage, both for sitting comfortably in a mud berth and also for sneaking much further up shallow creeks than you could ever hope to do in a single-keeler.

Mike

 

[ShinyShoe]

That yawl does look very nice... Mmmm... may be time to start negotiations with the bank manager / SWMBO

 

[Poignard]

Interesting that almost all those nominated have raised topsides. That would certainly be my choice. My own YM 3-Tonner Sanderling (a Buchanan design) was such, and was very roomy in consequence. The only reason I wouldn't recommend her here is that being only 17' on the waterline she only sleeps two. But the bilge keels are a great advantage, both for sitting comfortably in a mud berth and also for sneaking much further up shallow creeks than you could ever hope to do in a single-keeler.

Mike

Good to see that picture of a charming pocket cruiser. I have a copy of 'Complete Amateur Boatbuilding' by Michael Verney in which the YM 3-tonner is described in some detail.

 

[Wooden Boat Fittings]

Yes, they're great little cruisers. Buchanan won the annual Yachting Monthly design competition with the design in 1948. He'd only just started out as a designer, and Maurice Griffiths was the YM Editor at the time. I have a sneaking suspicion that Buchanan deliberately aped a Griffiths bilge-keeler especially for the competition....

He produced a great design, anyhow. In 20' overall he managed to fit two full-length berths with trotter-boxes, a separate galley, a separate chart table, a full-length wet hanging locker, a sail locker, a forepeak for warp storage, a spot for a bucket or chemical head, a spacious cockpit with lockers all round, and a lazarette for even more storage. And the raised topsides made her amazingly roomy.

There are some old photos of her on this page.

She was changed some time after building from the original sloop rig to a cutter with the addition of a 4' bowsprit.

Mike

 

[Horace]

Always amazes me when people say they are going to do this or that but don't even have the experience to know what a good boat is.

 

[Tranona]

Always amazes me when people say they are going to do this or that but don't even have the experience to know what a good boat is.

Why? are people not allowed to have dreams? and ask for advice?

If only "experienced" people were allowed to do things, nothing would ever get done and nobody would gain experience.

 

[ShinyShoe]

Always amazes me when people say they are going to do this or that but don't even have the experience to know what a good boat is.

I have the skills to go and get a Standard AWB, take 3 months off work and rush round the country to tick a box.

I want to go slower, take my time and be able to 'abandon' the boat for a few weeks. I also want to do it in something that at least looks traditional.

I don't know if your post is meant to mean:

- The OP doesn't have enough experience to know that a Twin Keeled Traditional Looking Boat is completely inappropriate for a slow circum nav of the UK? No-one seems to have mentioned that if thats the case.

- The OP should know what choices of Twin Keeled Traditional Looking Boats are available if he things he's got the skills to sail round the UK in one. If thats what you mean - then I'm very sorry that I've seen a rough type of boat that I think might serve the purpose and thought it OK to ask the collective for their knowledge and wisdom. Heaven forbid that not having sailed round the whole of the UK I might not have seen every type of boat that exists.

- Or did you mean something else in which case explain what you mean. (preferably without coming across as a pretentious tw@t)