Zeevalk was designed by the famous Dutch designer E.G. (Ricus) van de Stadt in 1949 for his friend and colleague, the developer of a new type of marine plywood, Kees Bruynzeel. The concept was revolutionary. With length overall at 12.50m, waterline 11.00m, displacement 5.5 tonne, sail 52.40 sqm, she was […]
Daily Archives: June 23, 2013
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Sunmaid V is a Sparkman and Stephens One Ton Cup design. She was built of mahogany by the Clare Lallow yard of Cowes and launched in 1967. The dimensions are LOA 36′-11″, LWL 26′-8″, beam 10′-2″, draft 6′-3″, and sail area 530 sq ft. She was brought onto the RNYC […]
Sunbeam II is a three masted topsail schooner originally owned by Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman M.P. Launched at Denny’s of Dumbarton in 1929, to the designs of Messrs G. L. Watson & Co, she is 659 tons, length 195 feet, max. draft 16’10” and sail area 12,700 sq. feet. Sunbeam […]
Quentin Mitchell writes:- SQUIB is the boat that graces the cover of the RNYC Sailing Directions (1990), beached in St. Cuthbert’s Cove on the Inner Farne (long since forbidden). She is a Westcliff on Sea One Design built by Cole and Wiggins in 1926. She came into the Club before […]
Josephine of Hoo is a Stor Tumlaren designed by Knud Reimers in the late 1930s to the Scandinavian handicap 30sq metre rule. She was built by Hampers of Fareham in 1960 of Honduras mahogany on Canadian rock elm. She is 31′ 9″ LOA 8′ beam, 5′ 6″ draft and displaces […]
Noel Kelly of California writes: In the late 1940s I was a member of the 1st.Tyne Sea Scout Troop headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne with a second facility in the old Ice House at South Harbour, Blyth. The Scout-master was Commander S.D.Newton R.N.ret. who was known as ‘Uncle’, and was […]
Hugo McGowan writes:- Dawn Huntress was built by Fairey Marine on the Hamble. She was supplied ‘hull and machinary’ in kit form and completed at Toughs Boatyard in Teddington in 1964 for a Mr Hedges who I understand was a confectioner. She is a 23′ Fairey Huntress, hull no 120 […]
Roger Hardwich writes:- Bordermaid was built in 1948 by Woodnuts IOW and was the second Folkboat built to the Scandinavian Rule in England, not to be confused with the British carvel built boats a year or so later. She was delivered to Blyth on a railway train to her proud […]