Thursday, 10 December 2015

Beaulieu Classics

A fine day for a winter walk along our own Beaulieu River revealed a couple of lovely classic yachts still on their moorings.


Both immaculately maintained, it looks like the owners enjoy varnishing as much as they like sailing and who could blame them.


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  1. Patrick Hay10 December 2015 at 20:32

    The Folkboat with white topside so is clearly a very much updated classic. I guess the owner loves his boat and enjoys cruising, as he's lavished some attention and money on in-mast roller reeling on the main and a roller reeling Genoa. He's also fitted a very discreet spray hood to the main hatch. I wonder what other mods he's made?

    The varnished boat's owner is more a racing man, I fancy, since he seems to have kept his boat in strict Nordic Folkboat one-design trim, with wooden spars and no inboard motor.

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  2. Alden Smith12 December 2015 at 01:12

    No matter how the cabin design is altered I still feel the Folkboat looks best as per the original design - with a short little cabin that stops short of the mast. I feel the same about the International Dragon which looks wonderfully balanced and appealing with her original little cabin trunk. I always feel that a Dragon set up for cruising (despite its very modest accommodation ) would make a beautiful fast little weekender.

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