Is this out of the Iris Elizabeth mould Barry Chisholm built at Penryn? If so a totally brilliant boat, well it would be seeing as Percy designed it...
@@willymueller3278 That's what happens when you 'yottify' a gaffer. All that stainless for one thing, galvo'd mild steel and cheaper joinery would slash the cost of building, make fittings not buy them at chandlery prices. The trouble is there are too many middle class blokes with money buying 'traditional' boats. I used to look upon the gaffer as the working mans boat, one he could build and maintain himself, a bit like motorcycling used to be in the 50's, the poor man's mode of transport. I saw on Facebook a posh bloke from the Solent in his 30ft gaff cutter had broken one horn off his gaff jaws in Guernsey, what did he do? Flew himself and the family home at great expense leaving the boat to be repaired by a local boat builder then he flew back with crew to sail the boat back....
@@jonathansimmonds5784 By saying too much, I ment, too much for me. She is a beauty and certainly worth the money. I just sold my boat for 20 000, a 46 foot 20 tons ketch which I had for 36 years, I built the whole boat myself, exept for the hull, which is in steel, wineglasshaped, all the fittings are in galvanized steel and I sailed her from Rio to Greenland and seven times across the Atlantic. The only thing that ever broke, was a selftailing forestay, thats all. And I repaired it under way. By the way, stainless steel fittings are not such a bad idea, the price over mild steel is not so much, its the time making them, that costs money. And stainless has to be a bit oversized, otherwise it breaks, but always looks shiney. So long.
