Anyone remember the Americas Cup Jubilee in 2001. Hundreds of classic boats racing in the solent. Awesome!!
Came past the Needles from Poole and bumped into the J’s racing in the Solent (too blowey to go outside). Each one was followed by a life boat as they were always losing crew off the (un guard railed) deck. Stopped for lunch and then sailed through the middle of the start of the Fastnet 😳 …which was nice 😀
J class yachts are incredible. The tallest mast i have ever seen, especially when compared to its hull length. Salcombe yawls are nice, too expensive though 🙁
I had one of these but sold it 11 months ago to Sweeden. Not as pretty in the classic sense but more in a modern/F1/Engineering type perspective.
Melges 24:
Hope the new owners enjoy her as much as we did. Fricking awesome performance – we once had 19kts with just the main up on the way out to a race. Max speed we ever had was 25kts.
My dad’s mate owns a sweden 42, awesome boat. spent a morning on the irish sea in a force 8, we gave in long long long before the boat would have done 😆
iainc, I know, but she’s a classic nonetheless!
sambob, I also spent many a happy hour sailing Yawls! (There is only one type of Yawl, by the way, a Salcombe Yawl!)
Sweeden Yachts are special. Think I’d take a Rassey next when I get older as the family cruising boat – maybe a 42/44 – manageable when single handing or limited crew for passage making but big enough for a family to spend time on and manage.
Think I’d take a Rassey next when I get older as the family cruising boat – maybe a 42/44 – manageable when single handing or limited crew for passage making but big enough for a family to spend time on and manage.
when my folks punted their ‘classic yacht’ as pictured earlier, 15 yrs ago and bought a Nicholson 48 centre cockpit thingy we were all very disparaging….now it the perfect ‘grandparent’ boat and the kids love it 😛
Carbon377, at least try and get out on a sweden, we did 8kts over ground with a very reefed jib in a 2.5m sea. the owner sailed it back doublehanded, said it was very easy to manage.
I was in Cowes last June for RTI and we were dry berthed with the dragon fleet – they all paid a full time boat keeper to maintain and polish then launch them in time for the owner nipping dow for the weekends racing. Different world eh
sambob – i sailed a Sweeden 41 called “Hotspur of Amble” when I was younger – owner was a gynaecologist but he moved her over to the Baltic when he retired. It was nice but at the time I loved fast fast boats not big slow boats. Im changing as i get older though 🙂
Spent most of my youth on one of these, or in the dingy learning rowing techniques!
It was one of the best examples of a Westerly Berwick, which parents then sold, then bought a Moody 35, haven’t stepped on a sailing yacht for 10 years. 😥
I would love to work on a tall ship, now I could even consider that a holiday.
Salcombe Yawls – my other half’s dad has one. Lovely boat. After having been brought up on arse-in-the-water efforts like Toppers and Lasers, I found it a bit staid. The I realised quite how bleeding quick we were going. Still not as instant as the little boats, but I’ve a LOT more respect for it now.
His family have/had a cottage down in Bantham and used to own a Bantham one design too. The yawl was built by the harbour master there when he worked for Stones.