1001 Boats

Back in 2014 Bob was building a classic Whitehall/Wherry , well it's finished and looking mighty fine Bob reports that she's a lot of fin to sail, thanks for the update.

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2016/11/bobs-wherry.html

Image: J-Klubben You might think that a boat widely known by the name “Junior Folkboat” must be a newer design derived from the famous Nordic Folkboat cruiser racer. In this case, howeve...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-junior-that-came-before-senior.html

The Tricorn dinghy was designed by Illingworth and Primrose in 1962. Since theirs was one of the most famous names in offshore racing yacht design at the time, she came with some impressive ...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2015/09/tricorn-very-early-all-grp-cruising.html

This is my own and favorite dinghy Tosh, built by the original Cornish Crabbers down in Rock across the Camel estuary from Padstow, in 1983. Designed by Roger Dongray I like to think of her ...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2015/05/cornish-cormorant-tosh.html

William Atkin's study on the Colin Archer type, the Ingrid 38 has featured on 1001 Boats previously  , and as one of my favorite cruising yachts I have no hesitation about a second post, which w...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2015/04/ingrid-38-spiritus.html

The Tidewater is one of Maurice Griffiths designs, a cutter of 30 feet the original was mentioned in the famous journalist and designers book "Little ships & shoal waters". The Tidewater is a c...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2014/12/tidewater-cutter-brego.html

This week, at Rochefort in France, a replica of the 1778 frigate “Hermione” began her sea trials. The Hermione was a typical light warship of her day carrying an armament of 26 guns, each...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2014/09/lafayettes-frigate-hermione_13.html

I received an interesting email and photo's from Bob the other day, about a Whitehall build, but let me tell it in Bob's own words. "I have a boat I am finishing up it is a Whitehall type boat ...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2014/07/whitehall-build.html

Very few of these craft were built during the 1980's to a design by John Shuttleworth and built by Amber Boats. A classic looking gaff day boat with a semi modern underwater section which balance...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2014/05/cara-16.html

This is an example of the Stevenson Projects "Weekender"  built by Charlie Duerr of Jackson, Wyoming, USA. Charlie explains "The boat isn't a tacking boat at all due to the small keel, but...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2014/02/stevenson-projects-weekender.html

Pascal sent an email recently saying he was returning to Europe in his Joshua class yacht named Primadonna, from the photographs he sent me it looks like he has been cruising the Caribbean and fr...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2013/06/joshua.html

Peter Leenhouts of the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, Port Hadlock which is located on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, northwest of Seattle wrote with some details of a cruising t...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2013/02/cruising-tug.html

An update on the recent Bursledon Blog  post about motor yacht Vagabond , It was almost exactly a year ago that I spotted Vagabond ashore in a local yard while I was out for my morning run,...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2012/12/wooden-twin-screw-pleasure-yacht.html

In 1978, Jay Benford expanded on his cruising experience in the 34 foot topsail ketch, Sunrise, to create a dory hulled cruising boat. There were naysayers then, as now, about the capacity of a s...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2012/10/jay-benford-cruising-dory-badger.html

Amazingly the 505 dinghy, still one of the most exciting performance boats in the world, is close to celebrating its 60th birthday. Is it French or British in its origins? It's a long story �...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2012/10/sacre-cinquo-is-505-really-french.html

A modern Aile in GRP, built by ACCF of Pont L'Abbe, Brittany  The Aile is a one-design keelboat, built originally by the Finnish Abö yard. It was adopted by the Parisian yacht club, Cercle...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2012/09/aile-pretty-pre-war-keelboat_24.html

The Columbia 43 is a big, muscular boat made for long ocean races. The boat is largely forgotten now because its birth coincided with the death of the rating rule it was designed to race under...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-columbia-43-classic-trip-racer.html

Dancer is a Tripp-designed, 55-foot flush deck aluminum cutter built in 1965 by Abeking & Rasmussen. Copyright by Brandon Ford, 2016. Dear reader, I posted a profile of Bill Tripp Jr. a co...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2012/07/bill-trips-beautiful-and-fast-boats.html

Hugh Coryn wrote to say that he had recently acquired a Fairey Duckling, built 1962 still varnished complete with her original suit of Williams sails. Although still usable Hugh's intenti...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2012/06/fairey-duckling.html

Decked out for the Royal Jubilee this Fairy Atalanta has it's origin if not precisely in the Coronation year 1953 but is certainly a product of that post war period of English enthusiasm and in...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2012/06/fairey-atlanta.html

We had an interesting letter from Francesco Tomei who describes himself as " proud italian owner of the wonderful Brigand 7,50 - Nonnopio." The Brigand was built in Italy by C.I.M.A. shipyard...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2012/04/brigand.html

Readers of novels are willing to believe the most outrageous and tortuous plots - in the case of my, as yet, unfinished novel it's about unethical journalism, civil service corruption and murdero...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2012/02/swan-38-definitive-cruiserracer.html

Here’s something very different from Dave Zeiger of TriloBoats which are a family of barge/scow hulls that have been adapted for fast and easy construction in plywood. Dave and his family have...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2011/12/slacktide.html

Members of the Hamble River Sailing Club Foxer Fleet can be seen sailing every weekend, out on the water all year around summer and winter alike. Designed by David Thomas (who also designed t...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2011/12/foxer-dinghy.html

I’m not really a fan of centre cockpit yachts, but the exception proves the rule as they say. The first time we went aboard a Nicholson 48 was in Scotland Bay, Trinidad. Growler monkeys could b...

http://1001boats.blogspot.com/2011/12/nicholson-48.html