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National Maritime Museum Cornwall Trust Discovery Quay Falmouth Cornwall TR11 3QY
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In 1954 a group of dinghy sailors from clubs in the Solent area collaborated with Fairey Marine’s Charles Currey, an Olympic silver medallist in Finns, in an attempt to come up with a boat that would be modern, light and able to cope with the often rough Solent conditions, but suitable for family sailing as…
On January 9th 1956 two Enterprise Dinghies crossed the Channel between Dover and Calais in the middle of the night. This remarkable achievement rocked the sailing world and brought international recognition to the designer Jack Holt. Both these dinghies are now in the Museum’s collection. Jack Holt (1912-1995) was born into humble stock. The son…
The National 18 was born in 1938 following a design competition organised by the then YRA (now RYA) and Yachting World magazine. The original idea was for an 18 foot sailing dinghy, suitable for day sailing, yet fast enough to be of interest to racing sailors and at a reasonable cost. The plan was to…
The Essex One Design dates from 1919, when it was commissioned as a “one-design” boat for the Essex Yacht club together with the nearby Alexandra Yacht Club, both sailing the tidal waters of Southend on Sea. Another local and not dissimilar design, the Thames Estuary One Design, had originated a few years earlier in 1911,…
Thamaku is a less than half size replica of a design of outrigger canoe commonly seen all across the Pacific islands. This design of craft was used as a general purpose vessel with the main hull constructed of canvas stretched across a timber frame. This replica is around 10ft 6 in in length but full…
The Challenger Class Association is a charity that represents the interests of sailors with disabilities – people who want an outdoor life coupled with an adventure sport that is demanding and can be played on equal terms with able-bodied competitors. Sailing is one of the few sports to provide that equality: the wind and the…
What you are looking at is cutting edge 1930s technology.What we have here is a Hudson Folding Dinghy, an unusual collapsible dinghy designed and made by R J Hudson (Dick) between the late 1920s and late 1930s, originally in Dublin and then in Devon Dick started as a civil engineer in India before returning to…
This rather unremarkable looking little boat was not created in a conventional boat yard, but was designed and built in 1950 by a firm of metal fabricators based in Birmingham. The Panelcraft Sheet Metal Co. Ltd, of King’s Heath, was established in 1941: the company’s proud claim was that it could make anything “from a…
Witch is a clinker built open boat with a transom stern, approximately 14ft long and was used for catching lobsters and crabs up to six miles out to sea. In his book ‘Working Boats of Britain’, Eric McKee lists her as an example of a typical small working boat from the Isle of Purbeck, similar…
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