ECF is last chance saloon for boat identity riddle

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I still have some gaps in my list - so in the hope that you guys can do

- I posted this on PBO - and they filled ina couple of blanks.

But you guys are the last chance saloon on this one

20 wooden boats, one steel and three plastic

I have just put together a video sequence for an American sailing convention.
The film is 7 minutes long but the last two minutes is a montage of boats I have filmed while sailing around the UK.
I know most of them but there are some gaps I would dearly love to fill in so if anyone can help

I have stuck the film at the bottom of the frontpage on my website at The list goes:

Mirror Offshore (obviously)
Hillyard
Salcombe Yawl
Deben Cutter
Morecambe Bay Prawner (or Nobby) "Peggy" - 36ft, built at Crossfields of Arnside in 1912
Skillinger Pioneer of Brightlingsea
dragonflies 14 foot racing dinghies
Converted gaff rigged ships lifeboat
Dutch reguistered Drum of Drake, built in 1994 in Belgium
Dutch Regsitered Smack - Steel Brandaen, built Brightlingsea 1980
Blackwater Sloop
Loch Long one designs
International 8m
Drascombe
Thames Spritsail barge
Deben Kingfishers
Jesus - owned by Waldringfield Clergyman
Punch Class – Waldringfield Giant Oppy with weird rig
Bolger Micro
Spritsail barge
Kestrel
Brightlingsea one design perhaps
Dunno – small sailing dinghy Woodbridge
Thames Barges
Mersea Oyster
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tillergirl said:
I suspect that's a small wooden lugsail dinghy!:)
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aha - you can't beat a contributor with a well rounded education

by george I thing you've got it

I see what you did there - picked up some useful clues from the pictures and came up with an answer

the clue was in the smallness - the material it is made from, the shape of the sail and the general pointiness at one end and overall bluntness at the other

Dylan
 
Dylan

"dragonflies 14 foot racing dinghies"; whilst these are in the background, in the foreground isn't there a John Leather designed clinker light grey hulled boat?

"Deben Cutter"; isn't there somebody here from the EC OGA who could identify?

"Converted gaff rigged ships lifeboat"; doesn't look like any standard Board of Trade lifeboat, more like a RN whaler, but even then a lot more sheer.

There's another interesting boat on your Bradwell Creek video, on a buoy near the entrance. The story is on the Eventiders web site, but built in Zimbabwe called
'Eirene', thought to be a one off Maurice Griffiths design, and sailed for many years in South Africa; in your gallery of "ordinary boats" http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/index.php/galleries/ordinary-boats/

(white wooden boat top left on the gallery)

regards

IanC
 
dylanwinter said:
aha - you can't beat a contributor with a well rounded education

by george I thing you've got it

I see what you did there - picked up some useful clues from the pictures and came up with an answer

the clue was in the smallness - the material it is made from, the shape of the sail and the general pointiness at one end and overall bluntness at the other

Dylan
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If it waddles like a duck, if it quacks like a duck.......
 
Karouise said:
I expect a collection of Consultants would come up with calling it a Turkey.

What is the collective name for Consultants (business not medical) - a confusion?
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To answer that, I'll call a meeting of my colleagues and should have a consultative paper for discussion in June.... where do I send the invoice?
 
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