Hillyard 5 Ton Classic

[wombat88]

I'd love to own a small 2.5 ton Hillyard but it would have to be kept somewhere appropriate.

A yard soaked in the aroma of Stockholm tar where old men cut rudder stocks with adzes and pipe smoking women caulk seams with the gentle tap of a hammer. Others stand in a circle staring in awe at a glistening new Stuart Turner yet to start for the first time.

You know the sort of thing...

 

[winch2]

into a mud berth

Yep. Old dad used to drive his folkboat into a mud bank at the top of an estuary on the lowest spring for the winter. One of the tightest hulls I've ever encountered... leaked not a drop. Fun tho getting it off in the spring.

 

[Wansworth]

I'd love to own a small 2.5 ton Hillyard but it would have to be kept somewhere appropriate.

A yard soaked in the aroma of Stockholm tar where old men cut rudder stocks with adzes and pipe smoking women caulk seams with the gentle tap of a hammer. Others stand in a circle staring in awe at a glistening new Stuart Turner yet to start for the first time.

You know the sort of thing...

 

[Mark-1]

I'd love to own a small 2.5 ton Hillyard but it would have to be kept somewhere appropriate.

A yard soaked in the aroma of Stockholm tar where old men cut rudder stocks with adzes and pipe smoking women caulk seams with the gentle tap of a hammer. Others stand in a circle staring in awe at a glistening new Stuart Turner yet to start for the first time.

You know the sort of thing...

Pah! I'd keep mine in a clearing in a wood where stone age men fashion tree trunks into rudimentary canoes with fire and primitive flint tools. Your move.

(PS. Your prose is superb, I read that three or four times with a great deal of pleasure. Brilliant.)

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Sailled as crew on a lovely Vertue some years ago. I was filled with romantic notions of owning a wooden classic and was on the cusp of buying her when thankfully for my sanity and bank balance she sank on the way back from the Azores.
I bought a GRP Twister but still pine for a wooden classic. If I lost my mind today I would have this one : Laurent Giles Brittany Class | Classic Wooden Yacht For Sale

Running backstays - check
Offset Prop - check
Non self draining cockpit - check
hank on headsails - check
Lots of varnish - check
She's missing the roller boom furling but I'm sure that could be fixed ...........

 

[38mess]

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