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Monet’s paintings of traditional French rowing and sailing boats More photos from The Yachtsman - including a legendary actress and mistress to Royalty - racing sailing yacht Charmaine A challenge for boatbuilders: a sweet 10ft clinker-built double-ended skiff

Monet fishing boats; 100-year old racing yacht photos from The Yachtsman, and building plans for a double-ended Scottish clinker skiff

Nick Smith boats UK Home Built Boat Regatta meeting Dorma

Nick Smith’s clinker-built boats; Home Built Boat Regatta; Hillyard cruising yacht Dorma

Flying 10 Ella in Annabel Young Bristol

Uffa Fox Flying 10s at West Lancs; my daughter Ella sailing a Mirror; pilot gig Young Bristol

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More photos from The Yachtsman – including a legendary actress and mistress to Royalty

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More photos from The Yachtsman - including a legendary actress and mistress to Royalty - racing sailing yacht Caress rigged as a yawl

Racing sailing yacht Caress rigged as a yawl pictured in The Yachtsman

Caress photographed in a supplement to The Yachtsman No 527, dated May 1901. Photo by Debenham, Cowes. Note the private steam yachts in background; the rigged ship is a steam yacht also.

More photos from The Yachtsman - including a legendary actress and mistress to Royalty - racing sailing yacht Ma’oona in 1908 More photos from The Yachtsman - including a legendary actress and mistress to Royalty - racing sailing yacht Charmaine

Racing yachts Ma’oona and Charmian pictured in The Yachtsman

Ma’oona was owned by Mr Almeric Paget, and the photo taken by Kirk & Son of Cowes appeared in a supplement to The Yachtsman published on October 8th, 1908. The photo of Charmian comes from another supplement dated January 1897, and was taken by Messrs Adamson of Rothesay, NB. Jeff points out that there may be a hulk moored in the background.

More photos from The Yachtsman - legendary actress and mistress to Royalty Lily Langtree pictured being rowed by her sailors More photos from The Yachtsman - steam yacht White Lady owned by legendary actress and mistress to Royalty Lily Langtree

Mrs Lily Langtree steering her steam yacht’s long boat off Hyeres; Mrs Langtrees yacht White Lady, again off Hyeres
These last two photos are from The Sketch, July 10, 1895. Lily Langtry was an extraordinary character who had many wealthy lovers including Queen Victoria’s son Albert Edward (known as Bertie), who was the then Prince of Wales and later became King Edward VII. Her story is told by the online Lily Langtry Museum and by a Wikipedia page.

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PS – There’s a news article about the sale of the White Lady here, and another photo here. My thanks to Ted Robbens for pointing out.

A fabulous day with the craftsman boatbuilders at Beale Park

Beale Park Thames Boat Show

Beale Park Thames Boat Show Beale Park Thames Boat Show Beale Park Thames Boat Show
Early morning at Beale Park; a Wharram catamaran; Joan Jardine-Brown with a boat she designed when she was just 19; a classic Thames skiff

We’ve had a great, if tiring day today with the professional and amateur boatbuilders and boat clubs at the Beale Park Thames Boat Show. As always it was quite an event, with boatbuilders finding spare moments to socialise between visitors, and the clubs devoted to particular types of boats enjoying their own extended picnics, while the general public oohed-and-aahed over the boats themselves. We oohed and aahed quite a lot ourselves, and I discovered later that I had taken 480 photographs, and my partner Julie took a fist-full of good shots too – that’s one of hers at the top of this post.

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