whats the longest......

[powerskipper]

someone has had their boat for, or do you change them regularly?
How old is the oldest boat that you know off that is still sailing, not counting the renovated commercial one.

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Julie

 

[plombier]

My favourite must be GB2 (aka lots of other names since). Did the Whitbread in 1977 and is still going strong AFAIK

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[powerskipper]

So at least 27 years old, nice one.

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[Iota]

suggest you ask Mirrelle from memory she has been in his family for a few generations.

Iota

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[Violetta]

Change it?????

We have had our boat for nearly 30 years. We would no more sell it than we would sell our grandmothers (and my grandmother, Agnes MacMillan MacDonald (from Skye), was the best person I have ever met in all my life, bar none) We hope she (the boat, not my granny, although she and I often discussed sailing round the Horn together) will see us to the end of our sailing lives, at which time we often think we will have to scuttle her, as we simply cannot imagine her being sailed by anyone else. She is, of course, constructed of the finest marine grade blood, sweat and tears - ours.

There are plenty of yachts from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries still sailing, although many have, of course, been repaired and restored over the years. The "Hoshi" was built in 1909 and hasn't been restored in the normal sense of the word. On the commercial side I imagine the smack "Boadicea" takes the cake, since she was built in 1803. The "skillinger" smack "Pioneer", built in 1864, does OK too. However, I suspect both are a bit like the proverbial broom.

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[AndrewB]

A couple of years ago I posted about an acquaintance, Rozelle Raynes, who was then celebrating the 50th anniversary of her ownership of Martha McGinty, a wooden folkboat that she keeps a few berths away from my yacht. Though some yachts pass down families, this must be something of a record for single ownership. It must also be one of the last yachts left to possess an Admiralty warrant.

During that time she has sailed the yacht several times to Scandinavia and made one of the early cruises to St Petersburg and the Baltic States back in the 60's, much of the way single-handed.

She still sails Martha McGinty occasionally, which is in absolutely pristine condition, with all fittings as original and almost no concessions to more recent technology.

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[Evadne]

A mere newcomer, by the standards above. I bought my boat in the summer of 1985, and she was built in 1963.

I think that if you are going to "trade up" in boats, you should do it within five years. After that, she becomes part of the family and you could no more sell her than you could trade in the family dog for a newer model.

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[flyingjunior]

The Kathleen down in scilly owned by the Leithbridge family (cant rember what rig she is perhapes scillypete could help me out on that)
Shes over a hundred years old and was used as a fishing boat by three generations of the Leithbridge family but now really just a pleasure boat. Never had and still doesnt have an engine.
As for my boat she round about 15 years old (bought her second hand) about 6ft long has a flat bottom no rig to speak of and is powered by a pair of oars!!

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[tugboat]

Met Nick Skeates today on Wylo 2 which he built 24 years ago. He has obviously looked after her well and she is looking very 'tidy'.

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