The west coast of Scotland in a fine old lady.

I wonder what it's builder would think if he visited a typical marina these days.

Horrifed at the mass produced grp vessels I'd imagine and offended at the grp 'replicas' of trad clinker cutters etc.

On the other hand, most of us don't have time to give the necessary TLC and need a low maintenance grp boat.
 
ianj99 said:
I wonder what it's builder would think if he visited a typical marina these days.

Horrifed at the mass produced grp vessels I'd imagine
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Not sure about that. He'd probably be intrigued at this amazing material that doesn't leak and doesn't need maintenance. We think of these old vessels as beautiful classics, but they were built as tools. Tools with a certain amount of aesthetic input no doubt, but still basically a way of earning a living as efficiently as possible given the technology of the day. They'd have dredged oysters with a twin-diesel fibreglass power-cat if they could have done.

Lovely boats for us to use for pleasure though.

Pete
 
One thing for sure it's not an easy boat to sail.....it's bloody hard work putting up that main, no nancy winches or nice smooth rope, sheer brute force on rope as hard as wire!!
 
Wonderful

beautifully cut together

perfect music


great light and great weather

pass my congratulations onto your pal the knobbly kneed cameraman


I am a bit concerned about the bendy rigging though

the Go Pro can do some wonderful things

but I hate the way it distorts the world



as for old style boat builders and acres of plastic

I reckon they would have been utterly amazed at what you can do with plastic

and at the way that it is leakproof and requires no maintenance

Stainless steel.... wonderful

ropes that do not stretch or rot..... amazing

Dacron... no stretch no rot


we are definately the luckiest sailors ever to have lived

Dylan
 
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ianj99 said:
I wonder what it's builder would think if he visited a typical marina these days.

Horrifed at the mass produced grp vessels I'd imagine and offended at the grp 'replicas' of trad clinker cutters etc.

On the other hand, most of us don't have time to give the necessary TLC and need a low maintenance grp boat.
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prv said:
Not sure about that. He'd probably be intrigued at this amazing material that doesn't leak and doesn't need maintenance. We think of these old vessels as beautiful classics, but they were built as tools. Tools with a certain amount of aesthetic input no doubt, but still basically a way of earning a living as efficiently as possible given the technology of the day. They'd have dredged oysters with a twin-diesel fibreglass power-cat if they could have done.

Lovely boats for us to use for pleasure though.

Pete
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I also think he'd be AMAZED that the working boat he built was still around. After all, they were built from available materials (not necessarily the best), using techniques that were "good enough". These working boats were an investment of capital; they had to pay back that capital in a relatively short time - a few years. Once the investment was repaid and a reasonable profit made, they didn't care if it fell apart tomorrow! Threads on the now defunct Classic Boats forum said you shouldn't assume these old working boats were built to last - they weren't. They were built to do a job efficiently, providing a reasonable return on capital. They weren't built with large-scale repair in mind.

That boat-builder would have thought people were absolutely crazy to keep a boat operating long after it ceased to be commercially viable, and there were FAR superior materials and design options available.

That said, they are beautiful!
 
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