Who has actually owned a Wooden boat.

[LittleShip]

There are many opinions on wood boats, some I am sure from people that have never owned a wood vessel. I'm interested in who has actually owned a wood boat.....

Not their Dad, Uncle Joe, Aunt Fanny, the Bloke next door, or the local bread man.

Just curious as I own a wood vessel and some peoples perception is not what I find.....

Tom.

 

[SteveTibbetts]

Yup, a lovely little Silhouette.

Being made of plywood sheets scared the hell out of me though.

 

[Lakesailor]

Dinghies. Heron and a clinker sailing dinghy.
I was very tempted with a Folkboat, but it was too dear for the condition. Also lusted after a Jewel class yacht but couldn't justify the money, although it was very nice.

 

[onesea]

Various Dinghies and although not mine I was brought up by parents with wooden boats as I sailed them I had to do the work. There last boat I did more miles on than they did. In the last couple of years of that boat, mum did the varnishing and I did everything else...

I know that the original statement excludes parents boats with the last boat I was certainly considered a share holder. When I left the area the boat got sold and they bought plastic, they offered her to me but I could not afford to berth her on the south coast.

 

[reeac]

There are many opinions on wood boats, some I am sure from people that have never owned a wood vessel. I'm interested in who has actually owned a wood boat.....

Not their Dad, Uncle Joe, Aunt Fanny, the Bloke next door, or the local bread man.

Just curious as I own a wood vessel and some peoples perception is not what I find.....

Tom.

I've owned a 1936-built Bombay Tomtit since Spring 2009. She's an 18 ft. dayboat - a carvel/Bermudan rig version of Linton Hope's 1894 design clinker/Gunter rig Seamew. Attractive, jaunty lines and the same PY as a Wayfarer with a lovely balanced helm. I've made new jumper struts and spreaders, new mahogony brackets for the jib sheet cleats and a few new floorboards. Had a boatyard replace the original deck and coaming last Winter.

 

[Leighb]

Had a Royal Harwich One Design for over 20 years. 20ft half decked day racing yacht built in 1937.

 

[Skylark]

I voted "yes", Tom as I've owned a couple of Solo dinghies. Now I have a "real" boat made out of "real" grp. Who in their right mind would have a wooden, big boat.......must be completly bonkers, eh?

 

[Melleman]

4 of 10 have been wood(from19fot to 68),the rest GPR.

 

[sailorgirl]

Yes me - an elderly Enterprise dinghy now sadly gone to the boatyard in the sky.

 

[sailorman]

A Silhouette 11 for 1 year
Had GRP fin keelers ever since :encouragement:

 

[rich]

And A Fairy Duckling

And had 1940 Ex Police boat.

 

[alahol2]

Shouldn't they have been Hermees, Hermees II and Hermees III ?

 

[Alan ashore]

Mine for the last 10 years or so:

 

[rich]

    Shouldn't they have been Hermees, Hermees II and Hermees III ?

Having a bit of trouble with photobucket, I gave up in the end.

 

[DanTribe]

1st was a 10 ft, clinker lugsail dinghy [paid for by Dad but "my" boat[
Cadet [ply] [ditto]
Shearwater [cold moulded but wood]
18 ft clinker 1/2 decker
Johnson & Jago 2.5 tonner
Stella
Also kids Cadets
Grandkids Oppies.
So 10 altogether if I bend the rules.
I could mend all the wooden boats, but get a bit lost when mixing chemicals together.

 

[KINGFISHER 9]

Mine.
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[bigwow]

PBK22 canoe does that count?

 

[1937rogerdon]

Two Airborne Lifeboats
Meridian
1949 Vertue

 

[Searush]

Damn I voted no & then realised that I actually still have 2, one of which is used regularly (if not frequently). DUH!

 

[Eyore]

Owned an east German built Folkboat for 6 years, a35ft Tyrrell ketch for 5 years and currently a recent acquisition of a Laurent Giles Peter Duck. Between those I had a GRP Hallberg Rassy 352 for 6 years and a 37ft Steel Van de Stadt Vagrant for 3 years. So been there and done it, but ending my sailing career with timber and love it.