Silhouette/Hurley 20, boats with Soul!

[Zagato]

I've always hankered after one of these pretty little boats. There is a Silhouette in our yard that I have fallen in love with, it's such a beautiful design. I put it up there with the Spitfire and Aston Martin Zagato Seriously it's the prettiest thing in the yard!

Damn shame they don't make them anymore and it's a pity they didn't make one with a lifting keel to trailer sail - I kinda want to give it a hug everytime I walk past it

 

[Seajet]

You haven't sailed a Tucker design have you Zagato ?!

RJ Mitchell's ghost will be strafing you for that one...

 

[sailorman]

You haven't sailed a Tucker design have you Zagato ?!

RJ Mitchell's ghost will be strafing you for that one...

My first "Yacht" was a Silhouette mk11, owned her a year inc a major refit & a full season.
i have never had a bilge keeler since

 

[AntarcticPilot]

The original Silhouette was plywood; the GRP ones are quite new! I shouldn't imagine many plywood ones survive these days.

Tough little boats, though - through no fault of our own (ahem!) my father, brother and I managed to shoot a plywood Silhouette off a trailer onto a concrete slip. It survived!

 

[sailorman]

The original Silhouette was plywood; the GRP ones are quite new! I shouldn't imagine many plywood ones survive these days.

Tough little boats, though - through no fault of our own (ahem!) my father, brother and I managed to shoot a plywood Silhouette off a trailer onto a concrete slip. It survived!

Sixpence has a plywood Débutante

 

[FWB]

Don't forget the Caprice an ideal round the world pocket cruiser

 

[onesea]

Tucker designs run in my family..

My grandad, dad and I have all owned one for me and dad it was first "family" boats. my grandad it was his retirement boat.

I only found this out when I bought a pretty boat in the corner of the boat yard. That had been advertised in the back of a paper... She proved to be a cracking boat...

 

[King Penguin]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Anderson 22 yet..........

 

[reginaldon]

Don't forget the Caprice an ideal round the world pocket cruiser

Mine's looking v. nice on her mooring, sadly stays there muchof the time, my knees are hindering me getting out to her on the v. few occasions when it is possible. Doesn't justify me going to a marina!

 

[Seajet]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Anderson 22 yet..........

Why should they ? This is about Silhouettes and Hurley 20's very different boats to the A22, now Tucker designs in general.

The first boat I ever sailed on was a Tucker designed Mystic plywood 1st generation twin keeler; she was beautifully fitted out below, built by Whites of Cowes.

My chum Charlie who owned her was a veteran of the Murmansk Convoys, I doubt he dared dream one day he'd have his own sailing boat, in those days.

She was a very pretty boat but God was she slow, 3 knots !

 

[Wansworth]

Spent a wet afternoon with three other sailors in a debutante which seemed positively palacious to my 15 foot world girdler.....

 

[Fantasie 19]

Spent a wet afternoon with three other sailors in a debutante which seemed positively palacious to my 15 foot world girdler.....

Luxury!! You clearly haven't been on board a Fantasie 19 - sleeps three they reckon, but I say only if Snow White doesn't need them that night..

 

[Wansworth]

Luxury!! You clearly haven't been on board a Fantasie 19 - sleeps three they reckon, but I say only if Snow White doesn't need them that night..

Small boats are good for you charachter building....What does that say about all these luxuary 3o footers with showers?