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22 Comments » Last modified on Nov 29th 2006
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Hi Gav, Congratulations on a slick and interesting site. Just the place to go for some maritime escapism after the day’s work.
Light Trow materials being gathered.
Gav,
Great site..
I’ve got throughouly immersed.
I’d love to know more about those Lough Ree Boats with FB on their sails?
Look very cool to me.
Keep up the good work
Jim
Thanks fellas! Ben - you must know I want to hear all about your progress building my little dream ship, the Light Trow please! (She’s a nearly double-ended lightweight skiff I designed based on the Fleet Trow). And Jim, maybe some day we’ll show ITBS readers that sailing canoe of yours…
And I greatly appreciate your encouragement, both of you.
Gav
Oh and Jim - where did you find those boat with FB on their sails please? I’ve looked around the Lough Ree site and it’s pretty big - or, at least, it’s big enough that I haven’t found them yet.
G
http://www.lryc.ie/cruiser.html
This is the one.. And I will write up the Zanzibar during these dark nites
Got it - they’re Folkboats. Google around the web and you’ll find lots of references; I’ve lusted after one for years. It looks as if Irish Folkboats have a different roofline to some you see around - Gav
So I have this big white wall in my office, and you show me some wonderful ways to decorate it, but the prices are about 100 times the budget.
I know what you mean - I can’t afford them either!
When we have some more trafic, I’d like to offer some prints if the numbers add up. It’ll be interesting to see what prices we can offer.
G
Just spent a leisurely hour enjoying the site Gavin. You’ve been a busy raconteur ! Will return often, especially these colder winter days when I can’t be building. Thanks for sharing with us.
Hello, i thought i would take a look at your site. It looking very good, i could never work out how to make one, not that i have anything to make one about. Some very interesting stuff here - including the picture of that seaweed beer you bought at the wine shop…
James
It’s good to hear from you James!
Setting up a webbie is a easier than you think. It’s useful to know about about the code used to create the web but isn’t essential. I know a little html, for example, but when I need php I just copy and paste the bits I need.
What you can do very easily, though, is use one of the free on-line weblogging gizmos, many of which come with free hosting. I know people who use http://www.blogger.com, but I’ve had fun with Wordpress and would suggest you might try the free hosting they offer at http://wordpress.com/.
In either case, just sign up and follow the instructions - the difficult part isn’t setting it up but filling it with a regular diet of photos, opinions, information and links to interesting pages. And it all has to be on an identifiable theme, such as some issue you care about in football.
If you want to, you CAN do it…
G
Hi Gavin,
Found this site of yours by searching for info on Tumlare sailboats
which I am trying to learn as much as possible about, since reading the article in last December’s “Classic Boat” magazine on the beautifull Tumlare, IMARI. I used to own a Norwegian built Folkboat ( JANINA ) but I am now in love with Tumlaren and hope one day to own one, but there are not too many of them around. I’ll keep in touch with your interesting site. Thanks and best wishes, Ian
Ian -
Thanks for dropping by and leaving your message.
Do please keep visiting, and if you find your Tumlare, we’d love to hear all about it please!
Cheers,
Gav
Hi Gavin,
I’d like to get in touch with Ian Roger - I am now the owner of a Folkboat called Janina, and wonder if it is the same boat Ian mentions. I’m interested in uncovering the history! Don’t know if you can help?
The boat is now having a refit, lots and lots of varnished wood and hard work to get right. There are a couple of cracked ribs, but nothing too serious. Another couple of months, and then ready for Summer 2007 sail to the Scillies and maybe beyond!
Andrew
A few weeks I was reading about the Phoenix beach cruiser and the piece referred to another boat - a flat-bottomed 16 foot, quite high-sided sailing dinghy.
NOt the most elegant thing in the world, but I have a rig out of a Wayfarer and it looks like it would fit.
The reference in the article was that this sloop out-pointed the beach cruiser, but only by a bit.
I’ve been Googling all afternoon, but with no luck. Do you remember the boat?
Regards - Miles Thompson
Enfield, NS
Andrew,
I happen to know the first owner of Janina!! He bought her from new and raced her to America in about 1979?? - single handed and against some of the big-boys of the day! (Chicester, Blythe etc.
Drop me an email (richardvarcoe@madasafish.com) and I can perhaps send you more info. if I can track him down again?
We worked together in the RAF!
Cheers.
Hi Richard V.
The man you are talking about who competed in the 1976 OSTAR ( Observer Single-handed Trans Atlantic Race) in the 24ft.long Folkboat JANINA was Flt.Lt.Henry Pottle, who came 48th.overall out of 230 competitors and 28th.on handicap…quite an achievement. He was however not the first owner. JANINA was built by Bjarne Aas at Fredrikstad in Norway in 1961 for a Mrs.Hunter-Grey, who raced her in the Solent and cruised her in Scandanavia. Flt.Lt.Henry Pottle was her next owner. For those who want more info. on Folkboats, The Folkboat Association has a website http://www.folkboats.com Briefly, the Folkboat design was the result of a competition held in Sweden in 1941 for which there were 58 entries. The British version appeared in 1952, carvel built instead of the usual clinker construction. Some had inboard engines and some didn’t; there were long and short coachroofs and, some with a doghouse, then in 1977, the first grp. boats appeared, strangely in mock clinker form.
Cheers, Ian
Hi Anyone out there,
I’m still looking for information/wherabouts in the UK of the Skandinavian Knud Reimers designed 27ft. TUMLARE sailboats.
Cheers, Ian.
Ian,
Thanks for the information, and I was just wondering where you found this out??? I have sailed with Henry on several occasions, and I was not aware that this information was public???
For instance, how did you find out his rank in the RAF??
Please enlighten me!!!!
Thanks.
Dear Andrew Keay,
I owned Janina from 1973 to 1977, having bought, in Finland, where she was berthed, from her from her first owner, Mrs. Hunter Gray.
I may be able to fill in some of her history if you so wish.
I’m very pleased to here that she is in good hands and being well looked after.
Yours sincerely
Henry Pottle.
Dear Andrew Keay,
I can’t believe that my spelling and grammar were so bad! I do apologise.
Yours
Henry Pottle
For Ian Roger
Hi - did you manage to track down the Tumlaren? I am trying to get them together at the Classic Keelboat Regatta in Cowes this year so would be interested to locate them. Many thanks, David