Nope. The lack of an outboard motor is the real problemThat looks..................incredibly slow!The lack of a decent keel might be a bit of a handicap.
It has the enormous benefit of being cheap. A balanced lug seems like a good way to learn, whilst going nowhere fast. A standing lug, with no boom, might be even better as you reduce your chances of getting whacked on the head.
I make no claims for its speed. Or elegance. Or refinement. I just did it for a laugh. The lack of a keel was a nuisance, hence the lee board. But it still went sideways like a drunken crab. However you could sail it into the wind, if somewhat laboriously. All part of the fun.That looks..................incredibly slow!
It has the enormous benefit of being cheap. A balanced lug seems like a good way to learn, whilst going nowhere fast. A standing lug, with no boom, might be even better as you reduce your chances of getting whacked on the head.
We stood by and waited for Salcombe lifeboat to turn up. Everyone who sails a lot has seen this kind of stuff.When I used to teach sailing in my youth and early 20s, down in Salcombe, we were taking (on behalf of the owner / man with thick wallet) a small racing yacht (38 ft or something) for rig trails, going out towards Portsmouth about 8 or 9 nm out at sea and came across a couple in a boat rather like that. Flat bottom skiff type thing. They had a small sail on a jury rigged pole mast and a seagull o/b ...but an absence of petrol. Sounds funny, but they had been out all night and an offshore wind had taken them well out to sea and they had used all the juice trying to beat back against the wind and tide. No flares, no provisions, no lights (really scary at night!) no radio (this was pre mobiles), one life jacket which the shivering wet girl was wearing - and heading for the Atlantic --- if they made it that far across the shipping lanes at night.
OK, I won’t; all serene. It just seemed a little pointed, that’s all. But that’s the problem with discussions of this sort, one can so easily pick up the wrong vibes from words unaccompanied by the usual cues.
I wouldn't be drinking coffee after the duel. It would be a tot of the finest malt. When I was a kid and we went to Salcombe twice a year, my dad would buy up cheap used Seagull o/bs, refurb them, repaint the tank and sell then on for a profit, He did this for at least 10 years. Wish we had kept one. Still have a fondness for those old simple engines.Nice Alasdair, Did you have fun with the install !
It was fun making the gate and heart the install was a pig as I was very restricted on what parts of the structure I could fix to (the owners wanted this as a six month temporary structure however it is still standing and apparently a bit of a talking point).
That’s where I got the idea and inspiration from. Tv program, Barnwood Builders, where old 18th century cabins and barns are taken apart and rebuilt as modern homes.
That is a very robust planter Andy20 Sept 2020, was it really 4 years ago
This was finished and installed. Wood from my own tree, douglas fir, planked by a local sawmill, joints cut by hand. No screws, no nails, no glue.
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Ian there is a video of the barn move out there, look it up, quite amazing!
Yes thanks, must say that was quite something, and hilarious at the same time. And just think, all those men and not 1 zip amongst them.
