Pip Emma is a small rowing dinghy built by the boat builder/designer F.C. Morgan Giles while he was on leave from the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) in 1916.
Its very light construction is due to the lack of materials during wartime, for example the transom is made out of an old mahogany table. The boat was originally built for the builder’s first son, Morgan: subsequent generations of children inherited the boat in turn as their first water craft. According to his grand daughter, Morgan Giles ‘always said that his children had to learn to row before they could walk and to sail soon afterwards’. Pip Emma was used by the family for over 50 years: although occasionally fitted with a sail she had no centreboard so her sailing performance left something to be desired.
Length 2.4m
Beam 1.1m
