Racing sailing craft – Page 38

Rare Broads One Design ‘Brown Boat’ for sale

Original 100-year old Broads One Design (or Brown Boat) Heron (number 13) is for sale after her owner suffered an accident that limits his mobility.

She is gaff rigged and is 23ft long with a 5ft beam, with a fixed keel and requires one metre depth of water. She was fully refurbished a few years ago, and has been very recently re-varnished and anti-fouled, and has recent sails made by made by Jeckells.

There’s a history of the class here, and I gather there’s a video showing Heron sailing somewhere on the Internet, although I haven’t found it.

The asking price of £8,500.00 includes a recently overhauled four wheeled road trailer. For information email me at gmatkin@gmail.com and I will forward the message.

Peter Radclyffe’s recent projects

These striking drawings come from Peter Radclyffe Design – if that name seems familiar, it’s because he went public in Classic Boat with some drawings for a new J Class yacht last summer, and that he was responsible for rebuilding the Lulworth some years ago.

Peter tells me that the Dilston Class (top and above left) is named after the village of Dilston near Corbridge, Northumberland, which is where his family hails from. He adds that he learned a lot about the design of boats of this kind from studying the work of John Leather – in the early 70s he lived in the same nearby to Leather’s home at Fingringhoe.

Design no 77, a 50m schooner, is based on the Vera Mary designed by JM Soper and launched in 1932. I think I’d want to take a photograph or 500 if she passed anywhere near me – if I could collect myself long enough to remember where I’d put my camera.

Pierhead painter Dominique Perotin’s portrait of newly built Victorian racing yacht Integrity

French pierhead painter Dominique Perotin has produced this portrait of the newly-built Victorian gentleman’s racing yacht Integrity – and it seems to me that she has joined the wonderful yacht’s growing legion of admirers. (Click on the link to see her website.)

Integrity was designed and built by traditional yacht builders and wooden boat repairers Stirling and Son of Tavistock, Devon and is listed for sale via the company website. There are also quite a few posts about her here at intheboatshed.net – click on this link and follow the trail of ‘older posts’ links to find them.

Integrity in flight

On the subject of Stirlings, boat builders sometimes get some funny commissions. Will Stirling and his colleagues have recently been building a pair of dinghy seats for a pub. I guess if a drinker feels wobbly some time, they can put it down to sitting in a boat, rather than blame the beer and wine…

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