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Dinghy cruising in a Welsford navigator - Our pottering day Part One
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2022
- Arwen is a 15' yawl designed by famous New Zealand boat designer, John Welsford. I built her over two and a half years in my garage and she was launched in 2010. Since then we have cruised the rivers and coastal waters of South Devon and Cornwall and you can follow our adventures at Arwen's blog www.arwensmeanderings.blogspot.co.uk or on her youtube channel where you can download videos or themed playlists / plymouthwelshboy .
In this video, the first of three, we spend a day pottering around Plymouth Sound, exploring the river plym, anchoring in Cawsand Bay and landing on Drakes Island beach.
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Fair winds, good sailing, stay safe and see you out on the water sometime
Steve and Arwen
You're a better sailor than the skippers of all of those boats swinging around on their moorings growing barnacles. Great to see you back on the water. Thanks for sharing.
True.....thanks Damo.
Nothing like a day pottering on the water.
Absolutely...a pointless but thoroughly enjoyable potter around doing nothing much.....surprisingly great fun 😄
Yahoo, ya back on the air, Really missed your regular blogs. Keep them coming.
Hi sumo bear. A few more to follow in next few weeks.....😄
So splendid to see you and Arwen out and about again!
Thanks Mike. It has been a while but a few more to come over next few months
In the 1930s T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia and all that) was posted to the Marine Branch at R.A.F. Mountbatten as an ordinary airman under the assumed name of T.E. Shaw. The station commander, Wing Commander Sydney Smith a long time friend of Lawrence, gave him a job working with civilian Hubert Scott-Paine to develop and test what later became the R.A.F’s rescue boats. Lawrence went on to write the official handbook for the RAF ST 200-class "seaplane tender" that resulted from the work (top speed 29 knots!). Great to see the place from the water in your video -- thanks a lot.
Thanks for all that Stephen. I knew some of it but not all so that's brilliant. Thanks for taking the time to update us... appreciated 😀
Great info thanks Stephen
Good to see you out there Steve hope we can organise it a bit better next time so we meet on the water and Polly can sail along with Arwen
That new Barbican pontoon looks useful with good coffee on tap - great idea 💡
Look forward to it...will be fun....you should be able to run rings around me in Polly 😄
Love the welsford navigator, we had many adventures in mine before unforseen circumstances forced its sale.
Sorry to hear about having to sell your navigator. That must have been very painful. I am very lucky I know. Great boat, great sailing area, dim skipper 😆
Nice video, good stable filming. A rather small thing about weak wind sailing that you probably know - it seems that your mainsail at 6:18 has a rather big crease from gaff throat to clew - I have been told that it should be from peak to tack so that sail has a nice smooth belly, and in little wind more belly is better…
😄 the crease is semi permanent and due to skipper incompetency......
you found coffee!
Yeah....it's an addiction habit I really need to kick...for health and financial reasons 🙄😄
Hi, good to see you out…a question on your oars : I’m thinking of adding them to my Navigator..what length are they and have you tried a stern oar instead?
Thinking of fitting stern oar but not sure where to fit it between mast and outboard bracket so got to go do some investigating first. I've two sets of oars....one set slightly shorter than should be...at 8'6".......the other at just under 10'. For this latter set I need to alter position of rowlock blocks but haven't got around to it yet. I am looking at designing an oarlock cradle arrangement that would allow me to stand and row forward. At the moment the shorter oats do the job over short distances but any distance and I just use outboard...which meets with derision in some quarters....😄
Not jealous.......no no, not even a bit.....maybe
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