George Holmes’ influential canoe yawl Eel
The canoe yawl deserves more prominence, and so Dick Wynne and friends have set up a website devoted to this type of boat at www.canoeyawl.org. I hope it’s a great success!
Here’s what Dick and co say about their venture:
We want to draw attention to today’s and tomorrow’s canoe yawl designs and not be seen as a purely historical group. But fear not, we love the pioneers too — one of the CYA ringleaders sails a 19th century design. Our aim is to represent all known canoe yawl designs, past and present, on these pages — it’ll take us a while to flesh out the design archive, with more designs, and more words to those already present.
- If you have designed a canoe yawl, we want to hear from you and to give you some free advertising.
- If you own a canoe yawl we want to hear from you with your experiences of it.
- If you’re selling or buying a canoe yawl, we want to help you.
- If you are none of the above and just like canoe yawls, we want to hear from you anyway!
The folks behind canoeyawl.org have a magazine in the pipeline that we hope will appear twice a year, and some interesting practical initiatives to discuss. I hope it’s all a great success.
PS – if you’re interested in canoe yawls, you may want to check out one of the seriously good reads of the year: Holmes of the Humber.
Thanks for the link Gav – looks like an excellent start. There has been surprisingly little stuff on the web about CYs and hopefully these chaps will make up for it.
I've registered, naturally…
Steve
We owned Eel in 1969 and sailed her from Redcar to the farn Islands,
she was a wreak and needed constant bailing!!! But i have never enjoyed sailing better !! Glad she is saved
stan sutcliffe