I was tickled by this list found on Penwith District Council’s website. But if that’s what they think about over there, good for them, I say.
Thanks for the tipoff Jim!
Category: Racing rowing and paddling
Another instalment of Jeff Cole’s collection of hundred-year old yacht racing photos
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Moonbeam as depicted in a supplement to The Yachtsman, No. 658, November, 1903. Photo is by Kirk & Son of Cowes. Jeff points out that the sides of the cockpit are rolled. I’m not quite convinced – I think there may be a tender on the port side, and a rolled-up sail on the starboard.
Double-click on all the photos for a larger, clearer image.
Tutty and Nevada battle it out in a photo from a supplement to The Yachtsman, No. 556, December 1901. Photo is by West & Son of Southsea.
Gleniffer. There’s no attribution but the image is a Photomezzotype,and was probably taken before 1895. St Andrew’s flag flies on the forepeak. She looks new, says Jeff, even in this old picture.
Iverna. Again, there’s attribution to show who took the shot. Jeff says that he thinks she is carved and gilded under the bowsprit, and adds that she’s also an interesting hull shape with lots of room inside.
Colombine, winner of the Emperor’s Cup, 1900. This photo appears in a supplement to The Yachtsman, No. 489, August 1900. The photo is by W U Kirk & Sons of Cowes.
A bonus photo tonight, but as yet with no information. This is Heartsease:
For more of Jeff Cole’s amazing collection, follow this link:
http://intheboatshed.net/?s=cole
Home Built Boat Regatta meeting 2007
Adam Claridge’s Wolstenholme Mallard
Graham Davies’ Oughtred Mole Talpa; Chris Partridge’s Wolstenholme Sprite Snarleyow; Phil Oxborrow’s Selway-Fisher Prospector Tonawanda
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A general messabout-style beach photo; Richard Rooth’s Oughtred Elf Inwe; canoe Hen Party
Chris Perkins, the Watercraft award-winning builder of Scotch Mist, an award-winning Iain Oughtred Macgregor sailing canoe, has kindly sent me these photos of this year’s Home Built Boat Rally national meet at the Cotswold Water Park near Cirencester. It’s great to see a British version of the American messabout movement emerging, and perhaps we’ll see some more home boatbuilding in the UK as a result.
There’s an earlier post about the HBBR here: http://intheboatshed.net/…1st-and-2nd-september/
HBBR have a Yahoogroup at http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/uk-hbbr and a website at http://www.uk-hbbr.co.uk/uk .
Amazon has just a few of Iain Oughtred’s classic paperback on plywood clinker building: Iain Oughtred plywood boatbuilding book