Trips on classic boats

[simsimmer]

I'm based near the solent and would like to take my mother on a day trip on a classic yacht or sailing work-boat. Does anyone know of any that run in October?

Splish-Splash

Sim

 

[tidclacy]

If you are prepared to travel there are barges sailing out of Maldon in Essex and the http://www.classicsailingclub.com

 

[BrokerBen]

Try here for now Ocean Village based Kitty for Solent based classic boat sailing.

http://www.sailingbargekitty.com/

 

[Matteeboy]

Went on a 56ft 1917 Bristol Clipper from Southampton to Cherbourg last year on a stag do.

Force 9 winds, no other sailing craft out (a race was abandoned) and 12 hours of mostly being sick thanks to 10-15ft swell.

Not the finest day and two of us (the most ill) got a fast ferry back!

 

[wrr]

Annabel-J is a fine-looking craft, based on a pilot cutter, that sails from Hamble. http://www.annabel-j.co.uk/ My only connection is that I pass her while transiting to and from my mooring!

 

[alant]

Classic looking, but a relatively recent build.

SB Kitty was built in 1895, so must be worth a trip!

 

[jezjez]

been on Annabel J and had an amazing week to te Channel Islands this spring - remember the early summer weather?
It was great. I think they do taster days. Lovely boat only about 12 yrs old but never mind that...

 

[ValleyForge]

This a bit further west ...

http://www.nmmc.co.uk/index.php?page=Whats_On&id=91&eventid=219

 

[Dayspring]

Used to work on Kitty. She is lovely and sails beautifully, but the old skipper has just left and I think she's gone downhill a bit. they will sail in october and do passenger days.

 

[grumpydog]

I would recommend a Thames Sailing Barge for mothers and the like (assuming, perhaps unfairly that your mother is a non-sailor!). They're big, stable and very grand, and the skipper will doubtless explain how they used to be operated by just a man and a boy! All good stuff though... I know there's one based in the Solent. I can't remember its name, but all the TSBs are on www.thamesbarge.org.uk. I recently bought my sister and her husband a day on Steve Norris's Greta, which operates out of Faversham / Whitstable and visits the old WW2 gun enplacements.