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Folk Boat Friday No 15
It's not until you start looking that you realise there are so many Marieholn Folk Boats around.I can't help thinking that outboard doesn't do much for the looks department and seems very exposed hung...
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SCAMP
Anyone who is interested in the wooden boat building revival will be aware of Scamp the John Welsford designed 12 foot micro cruiser. SCAMP stands for Small Craft Advisor Magazine Project after the...
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Schooner Everhopeful
It's not often you see a schooner in UK waters and even more rare to see an open boat of this size with the famous 2 masted rig.At first sight from a distance I thought perhaps it was a Phil Bolger...
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Way On Down
The big harvest moon on Tuesday night signalled some big tides and sure enough, running down the river at 6.00 AM this morning the river was at the lowest level I've seen all year. By lunch time I'm...
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Folk Boat Friday No 16
Another beautiful Folk Boat from the Pacific north west courtesy of Dory Man.Apparently she was built in Denmark and recently restored in Port Townsend, how she arrived there is unknown.I wonder what's...
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Of Schooners
There's been a lot written about schooners recently or at least about one in particular the schooner Everhopeful caught my eye down at Dell Quay unaware that Chris Partridge was at the helm, followed...
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National 18?
Lying just off the Christchurch Sailing Club club house we spotted this dinghy which I think is a National 18 although I could well be wrong.She's kept up in fantastic condition and racing aside would...
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Folk Boat Friday No 17
One of the downsides of the folk boat is interior space, compared to modern cruisers with separate heads, showers, owners suites the folk boat is well, frankly tiny. Over the years there have been...
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A different perspective
Instead of taking the river path we decided to see where the footpath goes as it leaves the river and heads through the woods above Bunny Meadows and up through Holly Hill Park.The path emerges from...
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Bart's Bash
We and 1000's of others entered the attempt at the world largest global sailing race in aid of Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation. The idea is pretty simple get sailing clubs all over the world to...
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Folk Boat Friday No 18
I've probably done Folk Boat Friday to death, so this is may be the last of the series. The folk boat is without doubt an enduring and elegant design, that they are still sailed in such numbers is...
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Rorschach Test
Better known as the ink spot test, where the personality characteristics and emotional functioning of patients are examined based on their interpretation of blotted ink images.So I was wondering if the...
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Folk Boat Friday No 19
OK, I know that I said last week's would probably be the the last of the series but I couldn't resist these two Nordic's under sail, although the top one looks like it might be motor sailing on it's...
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Sunday Afternoon
What could be finer on a late and sunny September afternoon than quietly sailing up between the crowded moorings on the incoming tide.The boat is a Memory which were built locally until a couple of...
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Fowey Rescue
Fowey is small and picturesque but it seems every time we come here there's some excitement.Having unpacked after the all too long drive, we wandered down to the town to see what was what, when the...
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Looe
The drive down, or rather west to Fowey takes about 4 hours, so we normally stop at Looe which despite a slightly run down air is an interesting place for a lunch stop (read pasty) and some...
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Hello Buoys
Apologies to anyone expecting a wonderbra advert, on my morning run I was passing through the Fowey old station car park, which is used for winter boat storage and usually has something interesting and...
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Fowey Floods
As I said earlier this week there always seems to be plenty going on when we visit Fowey and Wednesday was no exception, the winds had been blowing from the south all day averaging around 30 to 35...
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Aground
It's been a lively week what with the lifeboat rescue, flooding and then as we returned back to the house on Thursday afternoon, there was a yacht aground on the Polruan shore.I'm guessing the yacht...
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