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An important piece of dinghy sailing history – the Fireball Dinghy prototype – has been added to the museum’s collection. Although we have featured the Fireball in these pages previously, we felt this boat to be important enough to cover it again. In 1962 Norris Brothers, a pioneering engineering company based in Hayward’s Heath, Sussex,…
By the late 19th century boating and picnics on, or near, the river were gaining in popularity and social events such as the Henley Regatta saw large gatherings of pleasure boats. The participation of the newly developed motorboat only increased this further. Merk is the prototype ‘slipper’ launch built in 1912 for hire on the…
During the early part of the 20th century, post-war Britain was pursuing high speed technology. Between 1922 and 1936, for example, Sir Malcolm Campbell broke no less than twelve land speed records in a series of increasingly powerful cars. In 1929 at the Miami Regatta Sir Henry Segrave became the first Englishman to beat Gar…
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious or Superdocious for short, was sailed by Rodney Pattisson and Iain Macdonald-Smith to Gold Medal victory in the 1968 Olympic Games. They won a record–breaking 6 out of 7 races, and used the trapeze, a device which had in earlier years been banned as unsporting. The Flying Dutchman Class was designed through a collaboration…
This style of boat is typical of those still being built in and around Os, a town situated in south-west Norway, near Bergen. It represents a type used in this part of Norway from Viking times until the present day. The oldest documentation of Norwegian boat building is portrayed in ancient rock carvings dating from…
This is a typical example of a traditional outrigger canoe from Sri Lanka primarily used for fishing, both off the beach and further out to sea. The shallow dugout hull, carved from a single log, is raised with side strakes fixed on shaped inserted frames and sewn to the hull with coir. The two booms…
This Holmsbu pram is a working descendent from the same ancestor as many small yachts and dinghies in Britain today. This particular craft was used for herring fishing in the Oslo fjords of Norway. The aft part of the boat is closed off with a bulkhead and planked over to form a watertight compartment in…
Merlin III is a part of a whole family of fast motor boats with good performance in all conditions which were designed by Bill Maloney beginning with the 12ft Sorcerer in 1961. It is likely Merlin III is one of a group 16 or so 16ft plywood hulls built c. 1967. The inspiration for the…
On Sunday May 5th, 1946, the final race for the Henley Challenge Cup was sailed in cold conditions with a strong north easterly wind which capsized several boats. It was a good opportunity to test the prototype of the Firefly Class, which was making its first public appearance, and racing against a fleet of National…
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