Tender to a classic?

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

I wanted a tender that looked 'classic'. I also wanted to reduce maintenance to a minimum. A rubber duckie seemed out of place so I designed and built my own. She is in fibreglass but looks like a clinker pram. Question: Is this an acceptable tender to a (modern) Classic or is it sacrilege?

 

[FWB]

Yes it's perfect,and v nice it is too.
Here's mine, though I got someone else to make it...

 

[Rum_Pirate]

Beautiful tenders. :encouragement:

 

[sarabande]

drat ! Not only does your ladder look tidy and clean, but you have colour matched your rowlocks to the hull.

The entrance to the Dragon's work-cave looks historic, too.


I hope that elegant tender gives you many years of service.

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

The entrance to the Dragon's work-cave looks historic, too.

...but the inside of the cave is quite cluttered!

It is in a perpetual game of 'musical projects' but, somehow, I always seem able to create sufficient space.

 

[OldBawley]

build this one in 1993 from a kit. Barrow 7`6” Modified the kit a bit, dingy is narrower than original.

http://s1155.photobucket.com/user/OldBawley/media/Mei1993-Kopie_zps243c421c.jpg.html


We liveaboard so the dingy is used all the time.
Lying anchors, laying and pulling fishing net, hunting for octopus, trolling for fish under sail and oar. Perfect for one, rows not that good with two people.
Saved more than one yacht laying kedges with that dingy using oars. Where outboard and inflatable start to get unmanageable, this dingy ( and my humble skills ) could get a kedge out.
As can be seen on the pic, I am related to Geppetto.

The updates : In 2006 the epoxy started to fail. So used the old wooden dingy to build a mold and made a new glass fibre dingy. Eliminated the dagger board case, changed to long keel.
:Swapped Johnson for the smallest Seagull ( 2007 )
:Made a new bigger sailing rig. Lugsail (2009 )
:Made new even bigger sailing rig ( 2014 )

 

[Woodlouse]

You can get away with either an Avon Redcrest or a Tinker Tramp if you need a rubberdub for a classic. Only a seagul can really power it though.

 

[LittleShip]

It is my considered opinion that both of those tenders need to be trailed behind Little Ship for at least a season to check suitability.

Tom.