Posted by Joe Windsor on August 29, 2006 at 17:08:24 from 84.12.25.230 user Joe.
In Reply to: Re: Waitin' for you! posted by Laurence Monkhouse on August 28, 2006 at 17:03:21:
Hi Laurence - Thanks for post re Lottie Blossom. I always thought centre cockpit was best - but so few boats are like that.
I nearly bought a Buckler (see Google) which is a 24ft. 5 berth Ketch which looks like a Galleon! Magic! Centre cockpit. Inboard engine. Triple keel. Slow - but lovely. I looked at a couple but they were sad and needed too much work. They're now going for £8,000-ish! I should have bought one and just kept it in a shed. (Which would have been a shame)
Instead I bought a Corribee which I named Bold Buccaneer. See the web site. There is this quote:
'Ever since the age of eight, when I first read "Swallows and Amazons", I've dreamt of owning a sailing boat. Over the years I read everything I could about sailing, tried my hand in dinghies, then in hired yachts on the Norfolk Broads and other inland waters. some years ago I first bought a boat, and sailed my Mirror dinghy for a year on Lake Windermere, and then after moving to the southwest, on Plymouth Sound. In the summer of 1998 I decided to look for something bigger. So it came about that I became the proud owner of Charisma, a 21 foot bilge keeled Corribee.'
It was the sweetest and most sea-kindly boat I ever owned. Joe