Arwen's meanderings

Hi everyone and welcome to my dinghy cruising blog about my John Welsford designed 'navigator' named Arwen. Built over three years, Arwen was launched in August 2007. She is a standing lug yawl 14' 6" in length. This blog records our dinghy cruising voyages together around the coastal waters of SW England.
Arwen has an associated YouTube channel so visit www.YouTube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy to find our most recent cruises and click subscribe.
On this blog you will find posts about dinghy cruising locations, accounts of our voyages, maintenance tips and 'How to's' ranging from rigging standing lug sails and building galley boxes to using 'anchor buddies' and creating 'pilotage notes'. I hope you find something that inspires you to get out on the water in your boat. Drop us a comment and happy sailing.
Steve and Arwen

Tuesday 8 June 2010

Congratulations to Osbert

Congratulations to Osbert on the launch of his new 'walkabout' boat. You can get to the pictures of his launch via this link.

http://forthsailoar.posterous.com/

I've occasionally corresponded with Osbert via John welsford's yahoo builders forum; and I've also followed Osbert's postings on the Dinghy cruising association yahoo forum as well.
I have found Osbert to be a really reflective thinker who asks thought provoking questions; someone who has, in my humble opinion, excellent boat building skills and who is not afraid to think outside the box or to challenge convention. He has really made me think about what I do. He has an ability to articulate things so concisely....I know he has been a very popular message poster on both forums (well he's popular with me!!)

Anyway, his boat looks fantastic.....and I hope he gets all the enjoyment and more that I (and many of you who have built your own boats) get from sailing Arwen around Plymouth. It's kind of a great feeling isn't sailing the boat that you have built yourself.

Congratulations Osbert  - job well done and thanks for all the inspiration and thought provoking discussion!

Steve

2 comments:

Osbert said...

Hi Steve

Many thanks for the kind words and good wishes. I've only just found your blog - don't know how I missed it before.

Arwen's looking great and you seem to be getting on well together! Well done.

All the best

Osbert

steve said...

you are welcome Osbert - a really nice looking boat and blog - enjoyed it. thanks for kind comments - have fun - stay in touch

steve