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Bob's Wherry
Back in 2014 Bob was building a classic Whitehall/Wherry, well it's finished and looking mighty fineBob reports that she's a lot of fin to sail, thanks for the update.
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The Junior that came before the senior
Image: J-KlubbenYou might think that a boat widely known by the name “Junior Folkboat” must be a newer design derived from the famous Nordic Folkboat cruiser racer. In this case, however, the “junior”...
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Tricorn - A very early all-GRP cruising dinghy
The Tricorn dinghy was designed by Illingworth and Primrose in 1962. Since theirs was one of the most famous names in offshore racing yacht design at the time, she came with some impressive pedigree....
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Cornish Cormorant - Tosh
This is my own and favorite dinghy Tosh, built by the original Cornish Crabbers down in Rock across the Camel estuary from Padstow, in 1983.Designed by Roger Dongray I like to think of her as very much...
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Ingrid 38 - Spiritus
William Atkin's study on the Colin Archer type, the Ingrid 38 has featured on 1001 Boats previously , and as one of my favorite cruising yachts I have no hesitation about a second post, which was...
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Tidewater Cutter - Brego
The Tidewater is one of Maurice Griffiths designs, a cutter of 30 feet the original was mentioned in the famous journalist and designers book "Little ships & shoal waters".The Tidewater is a...
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Lafayette's frigate "Hermione"
This week, at Rochefort in France, a replica of the 1778 frigate “Hermione” began her sea trials. The Hermione was a typical light warship of her day carrying an armament of 26 guns, each firing balls...
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Whitehall Build
I received an interesting email and photo's from Bob the other day, about a Whitehall build, but let me tell it in Bob's own words."I have a boat I am finishing up it is a Whitehall type boat 18x5 ft....
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Cara 16
Very few of these craft were built during the 1980's to a design by John Shuttleworth and built by Amber Boats. A classic looking gaff day boat with a semi modern underwater section which balances...
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Stevenson Projects "Weekender"
This is an example of the Stevenson Projects "Weekender" built by Charlie Duerr of Jackson, Wyoming, USA.Charlie explains "The boat isn't a tacking boat at all due to the small keel, but she really...
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Joshua
Pascal sent an email recently saying he was returning to Europe in his Joshua class yacht named Primadonna, from the photographs he sent me it looks like he has been cruising the Caribbean and frankly...
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Cruising Tug
Peter Leenhouts of the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, Port Hadlock which is located on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, northwest of Seattle wrote with some details of a cruising tug...
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Wooden twin screw pleasure yacht
An update on the recent Bursledon Blog post about motor yacht Vagabond, It was almost exactly a year ago that I spotted Vagabond ashore in a local yard while I was out for my morning run, I could see...
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Jay Benford Cruising Dory, Badger
In 1978, Jay Benford expanded on his cruising experience in the 34 foot topsail ketch, Sunrise, to createa dory hulled cruising boat. There were naysayers then, as now, about the capacity of a sailing...
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Sacré Cinquo! – is the 505 really French?
Amazingly the 505 dinghy, still one of the most exciting performance boats in the world, is close to celebrating its 60th birthday. Is it French or British in its origins? It's a long story – but one...
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Aile - a pretty pre-war keelboat
A modern Aile in GRP, built by ACCF of Pont L'Abbe, Brittany The Aile is a one-design keelboat, built originally by the Finnish Abö yard. It was adopted by the Parisian yacht club, Cercle Nautique de...
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The Columbia 43: a classic Tripp racer
The Columbia 43 is a big, muscular boat made for long ocean races. The boat is largely forgotten now because its birth coincided with the death of the rating rule it was designed to race under.With a...
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Bill Trip's fast and beautiful boats
Hinkley Bermuda 40In the last two decades of the Cruising Club of America (CCA) rating rule, William H. Tripp Jr. designed fast, beautiful and innovative sailing yachts. He became known for winning...
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Fairey Duckling
Hugh Coryn wrote to say that he had recently acquired a Fairey Duckling, built 1962 still varnished complete with her original suit of Williams sails. Although still usable Hugh's intention is make...
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Fairey Atalanta
Decked out for the Royal Jubilee this Fairy Atalanta has it's origin if not precisely in the Coronation year 1953 but is certainly a product of that post war period of English enthusiasm and...
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