What it is all about...

[Triassic]

Props would normally be at such an angle.

Like I said, I'm no expert, but what would stop them sliding up the topsides as soon as any lateral force is put on them?

 

[Hydrozoan]

No answer to the question about the props, but I am intrigued by the 'legs' on the boat on the right on the dustjacket of Francis Cooke's 'Practical Yachting Hints' (e.g. https://www.trademe.co.nz/books/rare-collectable/other/pre-1950/listing-2399801470.htm) which are apparently not attached to the hull, but secured to the ends of a horizontal bar which is itself secured to the mast.

 

[Kukri]

Yes, she is on legs. She is on the hard for antifouling and what you perhaps can’t make out are the tackles from the chain plates to the heads of the legs which are kept upright by the cross bar.

This way of legging a boat was in common use before modern boatyard trailers. It can be done with any (long keeled) boat, so the same pair of legs can be used again and again, unlike the sort of legs that are made to fit a particular boat.

 

[Hydrozoan]

Yes, she is on legs. She is on the hard for antifouling and what you perhaps can’t make out are the tackles from the chain plates to the heads of the legs which are kept upright by the cross bar.

This way of legging a boat was in common use before modern boatyard trailers. It can be done with any (long keeled) boat, so the same pair of legs can be used again and again, unlike the sort of legs that are made to fit a particular boat.

Thanks; yes, it was the apparent absence of connections from legs to hull that I was wondering about, and enlarging the picture on the screen helped me to make out the tackles when you drew my attention to them - I think I was expecting horizontal strops from hull to legs, not tackles from the tops of the legs.

 

[tillergirl]

That's the way to do it!

P1040887 by Roger Gaspar, on Flickr

Pads on the shingle - actually the pads are below the shingle

 

[Black Diamond]

Thanks so much for posting this. I went on a trawl of LNER and similar EC posters and loaded up the shopping cart to re-canvas the office walls, but couldn't resist posting this otherwise poorer effort, being a devotee of the aerophone as well as the traditional boat

https://picclick.co.uk/East-Coast-a...t-Train-Travel-143227275914.html#&gid=1&pid=1

 

[Kukri]

That’s lovely!

And her is my ex, the very lovely Mirelle now in the capable hands of James Evans, on an LNER carriage back picture:

 

[tillergirl]

Lovely

 

[ianc1200]

From the cover of YM April 1931, for Fid Harnack yacht leg devotees.

 

[Tomahawk]

Thanks so much for posting this. I went on a trawl of LNER and similar EC posters and loaded up the shopping cart to re-canvas the office walls, but couldn't resist posting this otherwise poorer effort, being a devotee of the aerophone as well as the traditional boat

https://picclick.co.uk/East-Coast-a...t-Train-Travel-143227275914.html#&gid=1&pid=1

Had a look...
Didn’t know Blackpool is on the East Coast!