Small boat crossing to Newfoundland.

[Wansworth]

It’s come into my head a voyage made in either late thirties or after the ww2.The boat was a 25 foot gaff rigged and the skipper was a Lt Commander,the only visual image I have is of a clinker dingy lashed on the side deck during the crossing…..no more details.A book was written……thanks

 

[justanothersailboat]

Let me guess. You're now looking for a 25 footer with such wide side decks that you can fit a whole dinghy on each one?

 

[Wansworth]

It came to me……RDGraeham in the yacht Emanuel.

Let me guess. You're now looking for a 25 footer with such wide side decks that you can fit a whole dinghy on each one?

back in 1978? I came across Emanuel the boat of my inquirer moored off the Folly Inn on the IOW….for sale at 5000 quid,I recall the nice stained glass doors to the drinks cabinate.I should have bought her!

 

[Wansworth]

Let me guess. You're now looking for a 25 footer with such wide side decks that you can fit a whole dinghy on each one?

 

[justanothersailboat]

ah! and the date was 1934 and the book is Rough Passage. Not read that, I shall. thanks

 

[Wansworth]

ah! and the date was 1934 and the book is Rough Passage. Not read that, I shall. thanks

Glad. I could be of service

 

[justanothersailboat]

If this is really the boat, there are no side decks, just wall to wall coachroof

https://flic.kr/p/796hKj

 

[Wansworth]

If this is really the boat, there are no side decks, just wall to wall coachroof

https://flic.kr/p/796hKj

Yes that’s the boat the dinghy from what I recall was canted up somehow .The illustration was eithon the cover or one of the interior plates

 

[Supertramp]

ah! and the date was 1934 and the book is Rough Passage. Not read that, I shall. thanks

It's a great read. Mariners Library series.

 

[LittleSister]

If this is really the boat, there are no side decks, just wall to wall coachroof

Shush! Don't let Mrs. Wansworth hear!

 

[LittleSister]

Presumably he, or at least it, also crossed from Newfoundland?

 

[Wansworth]

Presumably he, or at least it, also crossed from Newfoundland?

Uk to Newfoundland then down to the indies then back via the Azores to the Uk

 

[Blue_mischief]

I think there was an article in PBO about its restoration a few years ago. For the Newfoundland trip at least, Emmanuel didn’t have a self draining cockpit - eek.

 

[Stooriefit]

Although not the book the OP was looking for, there is a book entitled Sea-Saint by Ian Nicolson which narrates a voyage in 1954 from Chester, Nova Scotia to Weymouth. Ian, born in 1928, is still alive and a member at Royal Northern and Clyde in Rhu, near Helensburgh.

 

[Wansworth]

Although not the book the OP was looking for, there is a book entitled Sea-Saint by Ian Nicolson which narrates a voyage in 1954 from Chester, Nova Scotia to Weymouth. Ian, born in 1928, is still alive and a member at Royal Northern and Clyde in Rhu, near Helensburgh.

Thanks I recall it was a book containing three stores including the voyage to Canada