http://intheboatshed.net/2008/01/12/ocean-pearl-zulu-fifie-or-baldie-jay-creswell-explains/ A weblog about great boats, boatbuilding and restoration. And sheds, of course! Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:08:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://intheboatshed.net/2008/01/12/ocean-pearl-zulu-fifie-or-baldie-jay-creswell-explains/#comment-11258 Gary Maynard Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:30:52 +0000 http://intheboatshed.net/2008/01/12/ocean-pearl-zulu-fifie-or-baldie-jay-creswell-explains/#comment-11258 Has anyone ever come across old photos of Violet? I only have one, from around 1975 in Fraserburgh. Her numbers were FR451. Thanks. Has anyone ever come across old photos of Violet? I only have one, from around 1975 in Fraserburgh. Her numbers were FR451. Thanks.

]]> http://intheboatshed.net/2008/01/12/ocean-pearl-zulu-fifie-or-baldie-jay-creswell-explains/#comment-10437 Nick Gates Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:40:08 +0000 http://intheboatshed.net/2008/01/12/ocean-pearl-zulu-fifie-or-baldie-jay-creswell-explains/#comment-10437 ps Mr Cresswell mentions Violet, which incidentally, was also built at Nobles in 1911. Defiantly a Zulu, her rebuild was well documented in wooden boat magazine. Her scantlings being almost identical to Ocean Pearls, as was the work involved in the rebuild, as were our solutions to the same problems! She does however have a lovely deep forefoot, which OP does not. ps
Mr Cresswell mentions Violet, which incidentally, was also built at Nobles in 1911. Defiantly a Zulu, her rebuild was well documented in wooden boat magazine. Her scantlings being almost identical to Ocean Pearls, as was the work involved in the rebuild, as were our solutions to the same problems!
She does however have a lovely deep forefoot, which OP does not.

]]> http://intheboatshed.net/2008/01/12/ocean-pearl-zulu-fifie-or-baldie-jay-creswell-explains/#comment-10436 Nick Gates Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:25:42 +0000 http://intheboatshed.net/2008/01/12/ocean-pearl-zulu-fifie-or-baldie-jay-creswell-explains/#comment-10436 It was most interesting to read Mr Cresswells views on Ocean Pearls 'type'. Being built in the early thirties to work under power with a 70 H.P. diesel she was quite obviously not built as a sailing boat. She obviously does not have the extremely raked sternpost of a pure Zulu. Our reason for describing her as a half Zulu, or Zulu Skiff, has as much to do with her shape than her build date. Apart from her previous owner, who described her as a Zulu skiff, the most accurate description and photographs available to most are from Edgar Marchs' Sailing Drifters, written in 1952. March realised that post war, the age of working sail was at an end, and scoured the coasts for details from fishermen who had fished before the advent of power. His works contain excellent drawings, photographs and descriptions from builders, sailmakers and fishermen. In his book he describes Fifies as having a plumb stem and a plumb sternpost. This description is also repeated by contemporary marine historians. Back to Ocean Pearl, built by Nobles of Fraserbugh, her shape is of a full but easily driven hull. Who knows how the conversation went between her first owner and the builders. A beamy hull of 14', a smidge under 40' to fish within the 3 mile limit, easily driven, achieved by a fine entry running through to hollow floors and a fine exit aft. A shape maybe influenced by a Fathers or Grandfathers boat. Who knows. However I find it hard to imagine that either party were describing the rake of the stern post in degrees, or deciding whether the hull was this class or that. More likely that she should look just so, like the boat he had always wanted, or seen as a child thirty years ago? Couple that with a conservative builder and you have a hull with many influences of the past. Now I am the last person to want to skew history, but unless we tilt the planet, plumb is plumb! It was most interesting to read Mr Cresswells views on Ocean Pearls ‘type’. Being built in the early thirties to work under power with a 70 H.P. diesel she was quite obviously not built as a sailing boat. She obviously does not have the extremely raked sternpost of a pure Zulu. Our reason for describing her as a half Zulu, or Zulu Skiff, has as much to do with her shape than her build date. Apart from her previous owner, who described her as a Zulu skiff, the most accurate description and photographs available to most are from Edgar Marchs’
Sailing Drifters, written in 1952. March realised that post war, the age of working sail was at an end, and scoured the coasts for details from fishermen who had fished before the advent of power. His works contain excellent drawings, photographs and descriptions from builders, sailmakers and fishermen. In his book he describes Fifies as having a plumb stem and a plumb sternpost. This description is also repeated by contemporary marine historians.
Back to Ocean Pearl, built by Nobles of Fraserbugh, her shape is of a full but easily driven hull. Who knows how the conversation went between her first owner and the builders. A beamy hull of 14′, a smidge under 40′ to fish within the 3 mile limit, easily driven, achieved by a fine entry running through to hollow floors and a fine exit aft. A shape maybe influenced by a Fathers or Grandfathers boat. Who knows. However I find it hard to imagine that either party were describing the rake of the stern post in degrees, or deciding whether the hull was this class or that. More likely that she should look just so, like the boat he had always wanted, or seen as a child thirty years ago? Couple that with a conservative builder and you have a hull with many influences of the past.
Now I am the last person to want to skew history, but unless we tilt the planet, plumb is plumb!

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