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Maurice Griffiths talks about comfort on board a yacht

Maurice Griffiths

My partner Julie found this wonderful quote in the The Arrow Book of Sailing, by Maurice Griffiths

‘There is a story about a tripper to the seaside who, from the pier, had often watched the yachts out sailing, but had never seen one of these white-winged beauties close-to. On day, he found one lying alongside a jetty with apparently no-one on board. Overcome with curiousity he stepped gingerly onto the deck of the thing, lost his balance as she rolled on the swell, and fell head-first down the hatch. [ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Continue reading “Maurice Griffiths talks about comfort on board a yacht”

An Ashcroft dinghy at the Beale Park show

Ashcroft 10ft dinghy rigged for sailing

Those of you who were intrigued by my post some months ago about the possible relationship between a 10ft dinghy designed by Ashcroft and another by his friend Chappelle will know why I was intrigued by this real-life example of the Ashcroft 10ft dinghy built by the Ashcroft method, in which veneers are laminated together at an angle to each other. See the post in question here: Ashcroft and Chappelle – are their dinghies related?

It’s a sweet and unusual little boat, but I doubt whether many people would build this little boat this way today. Of course, Tom Dunderdale built a similar boat using epoxy ply clinker, which is enough to set a chap thinking…

At the time of writing there were 15 copies of Ashcroft’s Boat Building Simplified available at ABE Books. Check now:

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Cooke on yachting accidents and strange harbours

Chapter XIII: ‘Among those who go cruising in small yachts, some go for years without carrying away any gear whilst others are constantly in trouble.’