Category: Small boats

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.’

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Chapter XIV: ‘Entering a strange harbour is a rather trying experience for a novice, and it is quite likely that he may lose his head.’

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Seamanship for Yachtsmen Chapter headings:

Chapter I Introduction
Chapter II Small Cruising Yachts
Chapter III Getting under Way
Chapter IV Getting under Way (continued)
Chapter V Seamanship under Way
Chapter VI Seamanship under Way (continued) Continue reading “Cooke on yachting accidents and strange harbours”

Gorgeous Oughtred sailing canoe wins 2007 Watercraft boatbuilding prize

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Built to Iain Oughtred’s Macgregor design, Scotch Mist was the winner of the 2007 Watercraft boat building competition

Scotch Mist’s builder Chris Perkins built his beautiful sailing canoe to Iain Oughtred’s Macgregor design in an attempt to create a boat he could launch and recover on his own.

The name came from a definition in the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue that seems to have tickled Chris’s fancy: Continue reading “Gorgeous Oughtred sailing canoe wins 2007 Watercraft boatbuilding prize”

Cooke on anchoring, mooring, stowing away, and running aground

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Chapter IX: ‘No anchor, no matter how good its proportions and shape may be, can be expected to hold a boat if the cable be allowed to fall in a heap on top of it.’

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Chapter X: ‘There is probably no manoeuvre in the practice of seamanship that causes the novice so much misgiving as picking up moorings.’ Continue reading “Cooke on anchoring, mooring, stowing away, and running aground”