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This dinghy was built by F.C. Morgan Giles at Hammersmith in 1908. It is of clinker construction with spruce planks on steamed oak frames. It is gunter rigged with a…
In 1961 the entire population of a tiny island was evacuated after its dormant volcano erupted. Situated in the South Atlantic 1500 miles west of Cape Town and 1800 miles…
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…
Shrimp is the first of the Norfolk Punt class, one of Britain’s oldest high performance classes. The class evolved directly from traditional working gun punts used for hunting wildfowl in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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