Folkboat Clones?

I've just returned to this thread. No one's mentioned the Sadler 26. I understand the hull lines were almost identical to the folk boat, keel apart.....

Mind you, I"ll be keeping my Nic 26.

:-)
 
At great risk of having all the boat types listed again and turning this thread into a non-festive version of 'a partridge in a pear tree' I'd like to volunteer a boat that I like but my wife does not: the Albin Vega.

Stern rudder or not, the design is often credited as being 'Folkboatesque'. On to the list please!
 
Folkboats have longish overhangs, shortish LWL's, and there's not room to swing a cat.
But! A guy in the yard has a Contessa 26 on the hard standing and, apart from my own of course, it's the prettiest hull for miles.
 
Ohlin Karcher said:
Folkboats have longish overhangs, shortish LWL's, and there's not room to swing a cat.
But! A guy in the yard has a Contessa 26 on the hard standing and, apart from my own of course, it's the prettiest hull for miles.
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Indeed, in the pure form they are also built light, half the weight of some on the list, with the resultant high ballast ratio they stand up to their canvas and cut through the water in a very enjoyable manner. Sweet boats.
 
Ohlin Karcher said:
Folkboats have longish overhangs, shortish LWL's, and there's not room to swing a cat.
But! A guy in the yard has a Contessa 26 on the hard standing and, apart from my own of course, it's the prettiest hull for miles.
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I still have to understand this clone obsession we have, bar a long keel and transom hung rudder, what have they in common. The Folkboat is just a long keel pre war yacht design.

Must say I was not looking for a Halcyon 27, but driving through the boatyard, I just fell in love with the hull, just lovely looking.

Brian
 
Ohlin Karcher said:
Folkboats have longish overhangs, shortish LWL's, and there's not room to swing a cat.
But! A guy in the yard has a Contessa 26 on the hard standing and, apart from my own of course, it's the prettiest hull for miles.
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Trouble with your Contessa, and most of those suggested, is that they are plastic.
the Stella is wooden and a properly maintained one looks far better than any Contessa
as for clones I would remind you all that a proper Nordic Folkboat ( if memory serves me correctly!) is of wooden clinker construction. Carvel ones and even the grp ones with false "clinker" lines are not proper folk boats to a diehard folkboat user
That means that of all those suggested , very few are proper clones other than the Stella
 
Daydream believer said:
Trouble with your Contessa, and most of those suggested, is that they are plastic.
the Stella is wooden and a properly maintained one looks far better than any Contessa
as for clones I would remind you all that a proper Nordic Folkboat ( if memory serves me correctly!) is of wooden clinker construction. Carvel ones and even the grp ones with false "clinker" lines are not proper folk boats to a diehard folkboat user
That means that of all those suggested , very few are proper clones other than the Stella
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Amen to that! I had forgotten those plastic imitation clinker hulls...each to their own I suppose..
 
Nobody has mentioned the Spartan, think she was an Alan Buchanan design of the late 40's, Very very close to the Folkboat & Stella. My father had one built by Harry King at Pin Mill
 
doug748 said:
Which begs the question as to why you suggested a SCOD, with it's very British lines, deep draught, six foot headroom and heavy displacement?
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Actually i realised that i was not the first to do so so should not have done so. But when i saw some pf the silly suggestions- ie folkdancer-- (that was the boat where the bloke building the back half did not like the bloke building the front half so did not tell him that the deck would not line up!!��) i realised that things were going off track and some sense needed to be introduced
The way it was going, someone was bound to suggest a Robber
 
Daydream believer said:
Actually i realised that i was not the first to do so so should not have done so. But when i saw some pf the silly suggestions- ie folkdancer-- (that was the boat where the bloke building the back half did not like the bloke building the front half so did not tell him that the deck would not line up!!��) i realised that things were going off track and some sense needed to be introduced
The way it was going, someone was bound to suggest a Robber
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Does a Bravaria count as a folkboat derivative? :rolleyes:
 
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