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Folk Boat Friday No.3
Not strictly a Folk Boat, this is a Marieholm 26,designed by Tord Sundén as a development of the international Folk boat, on the hard at Hamble Point.
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Skiff or Gig?
I'm not sure exactly how to describe this boat which in dimensions is very similar to the local Bursledon gigs, but built by Devon builders B&A Pomeroy in 2002 and a very fine craft she is.Interior...
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Tom Tit
Returning to Keyhaven presumably after Yogaff, the Old Gaffer's festival at Yarmouth on the isle of Wight, local Itchen Ferry Tom Tit looking fantastic as always.Believed to be from the drawing board...
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Sally
Sally of Kames is an 8 ton auxiliary sloop designed by James McGruer and built at the Bute Slip Dock Co. Ltd. in 1953 Seen here lying at Birdham Marina where she has been having some care and attention...
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Ready for the Races
With the summer season in full swing the river is brimming with go faster racing machines.
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Sadly I donated our ancient Seagull to an enthusiast years ago, it was seized but he was determined to restore an old Model 40.A 50 mile trek around the Isle of Wight might be pushing it a bit, but a...
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Folk Boat Friday No.5
Apologies for featuring this boat again, but it really is a lovely example, out on her summer mooring at low spring tide.
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XOD
On the hard at Itchenor one of the local XoD fleet Perdix.Googling Perdix XoD shows her to be a competitive boat, a regular entrant sailing at Cowes Week over the past 25 years as well as in the...
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Good Drying Day Part 2
Up the Fishbourne Channel of Chichester Harbour at Dell Quay the midday low water had left the moorings high and dry.The ground is mostly hard gavel, I say mostly as both Joseph and I managed to get...
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Keyhaven SCOWs
While we paddled out to Hurst Castle on the kayaks recently the Keyhaven SCOWs were racing out in the Solent between North Point and Hawker's Lake.Taking pictures from a Kayak can be a bit of a...
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Nominations for the New English Dictionary?
Now admittedly I work for an organisation renowned for three letter acronyms, where a cupboard is often called a TSU (tall storage Unit – I kid you not) but this really takes the biscuit or should I...
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Folk Boat Friday No 7
China Blue a boat which featured in the early days of Bursledon BlogSister ship to Jester a reworked folkboat sailed byBlondie Haslar, which he developed for single handed sailing. Radical features...
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Morning High
No Bursledon blog isn't breaking bad, nor have that particular family of mushrooms made an early season appearance. I dried Matilda Emilie out for a scrub and anti foul on a midday low water recently...
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Orisis
I received an interesting email from Jan Pieter de Graaf who lives in Belgium and owned Orisis the sister ship to motor vessel Vagabond about which I wrote back in December.Orisis was built in 1932...
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Folk Boat Friday No 8
Another example of a modern Nordic Folk Boat, moulded in GRP to simulate clinker construction.The background spoils the photo and it looks like the waterline could do with a bit of a scrub (note to...
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Deadwood
We took a different path walking down to the river recently and spotted this interesting price of wreckage, it's the deadwood, section of keel and stern tube. The shaft size is around 3 inches diameter...
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