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This clinker built dinghy JONIK III was built in 1936 by Percy Clemens of Fowey and used as a tender to JONIK.
Speed on the water is as desirable as it is on land. In the early 20th century a new breed of propulsion, the internal combustion engine, enabled boats to go faster than less efficient and heavy steam engines would allow. The romantic steam launch with its stoker gave way to the more dashing launches, which…
Designed by Jack Holt in 1950, the Heron is still popular today with ownership worldwide now in excess of 10,000. In the immediate post war years people began taking to the water in greater numbers than they ever had before and, by utilising wartime technology, boat developers were able to provide a new range of…
Boat building is a low profit margin business and as a result the history of boat building is littered with bankruptcies and short production runs. So all the more remarkable is the longevity of the German company, Klepper, which has been producing folding kayaks for over 100 years. In the early years of the twentieth…
Foyboats and boatmen have been traditionally associated with the rivers of Britain’s north east coast for at least three hundred years. Throughout the age of sail their main task, undertaken for an agreed fee (foy), was to tow or kedge-haul sailing vessels in and out of the river estuaries during periods of calm or contrary…
Rose of Portloe is a Cornish crabber. The term “crabber” covered all boats which fished with pots for crabs, lobsters and crayfish. They were small, well-built craft, with good load carrying and seakeeping abilities. Crabbers, then as now, worked out of most of the Cornish coves, from Seaton, near Looe, and Gorran Haven, in the…
When Ian Proctor designed the Tempest it was clear from the outset that he was aiming at a breakthrough. The initial object, along with his eleven rivals, was to win the trials with the fastest boat which could be produced within the IYRU limits. More than that, he wanted a boat that would be well…
In the years following the Second World War, as rising living standards and increased leisure time led to an expansion in leisure boating, Fairey Marine was an important player. Employing and developing techniques used in the production of wartime aircraft, Fairey Marine produced a number of widely varied craft, from the Firefly dinghies used in…
As leisure sailing increased in both affordability and popularity in the years after the Second World War many rivers around the UK coast had their own class of locally designed and built racing dinghies. The Helford Delta Class was designed and built by Dick Winfrey who ran a small boatyard on the south bank of…
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