Salcombe Yawl

[Wansworth]

……practical boat storage idea

 

[Boathook]

…practical boat storage idea

They store a lot of pwc like that as well.

 

[veshengro]

There was one of those floating berths in the Marina where I kept my boat. It was home to a big Rib, about 15 foot with twin Mercury Outboards. The Rib bristled with rod holders and watching the owner with a couple of fishing friends aboard was quite entertaining. He would enter the Marina at a sensible speed and as he got lined up with his berth his mates would move right aft to just lift the bow a little and the owner would gun the outboards and the Rib would slide almost fully onto the floating berth, everyone would then step casually ashore from the bow. Very neat, and no anti fouling needed, not on the Rib anyway.

 

[LittleSister]

I always fancied a Devon Yawl ('Dear Santa . . .') - which is a GRP version of the Salcombe Yawl, IIRC.

There's a version of the Devon Yawl, too, with a somewhat bulbous (but acceptable) cuddy forward which I thought one could have lots of fun adventures in.

 

[Wansworth]

I always fancied a Devon Yawl ('Dear Santa . . .') - which is a GRP version of the Salcombe Yawl, IIRC.

There's a version of the Devon Yawl, too, with a somewhat bulbous (but acceptable) cuddy forward which I thought one could have lots of fun adventures in.

You don’t still belive in Santa…….I realized ten years ago

 

[LittleSister]

You don’t still belive in Santa…….I realized ten years ago

What are you saying?!

How am I going to get a Devon Yawl now?

 

[Wansworth]

What are you saying?!

How am I going to get a Devon Yawl now?

 

[Wansworth]

Downwest will knock you one up!

 

[DownWest]

Hah!

Didn't realize that LittleSister had won the lottery...




BTW, Wansy, nice video.

 

[DownWest]

Had a look, as I was confusing the DY with the rebirth of the Drascome range;
Gallery – Devon Yawl Association

Pictures of the cuddy version there. Nice boats! Cuddy probably not to everybodies taste, until trying to kip on a wet and windy night But doubt that many overnight cruise the DYs

Drifting a bit.. The Scamp and the CLC Pocketship caught my eye for camp cruising. Hummmm, if I wasn't about to launch my not dissimilar Micro derivative...

 

[westernman]

I always thought that the mizzen sail (both Devon and Salcombe Yawls) looked pretty useless.

 

[Wansworth]

I always thought that the mizzen sail (both Devon and Salcombe Yawls) looked pretty useless.

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The original yawl was a working fishing boat and the mizzensail played a vital part in the fishing

 

[doug748]

The Salcombe Yawl fleet seems to prosper as do the Troy and Fowey River classes at Fowey and Falmouth Working Boats. How are the traditional classes around the Solent? It always seems pretty lively to me - nice to see a branch of the sport doing well against the trend.

 

[oldbloke]

If you add in the Seaview dinghies, Aldborough Lapwings, the various Broads boats, the Solent keelboat classes, Menai Straits ODs, etc etc then a non trivial portion of the small boats being raced on a summer weekend are traditional wooden boats