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 between 2009 and 2025.
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. Although 'Arwen' has now been sold to another family and is sailing in new water, this blog will remain a source of inspiration and information for those interested in dinghy cruising and sailing the local waters around Plymouth Sound. So, continue to drop us a comment or ask a question and happy sailing and fair winds to you. Steve and Arwen
Steve and Arwen

Sunday, 25 July 2010

A little stunner

A brief post....was heading across to Monty's on the Barbican for lattes and bacon pancake stacks with maple syrup and side salad breakfast....and time to read Sunday papers.....minus teenage kids.....when spotted this lovely boat.......I was told it is a rare example of a river tamar dinghy...I have no idea whether that's true or not.......but I think you will agree - it is a little stunner.

I'm off sailing around to the river yealm on Tuesday.......I'll detail more tomorrow...but you can check out a previous post on my musings about the yealm at http://arwensmeanderings.blogspot.com/2010/05/some-musings-on-my-summer-yealm-trip.html

steve









2 comments:

Bursledon Blogger said...

Think you'll find it's a Fowey River dinghy, hence the FR logo believe it's a one design there were a few sailing off the Royal Fowey YC in July, very pretty

steve said...

ha! didn't know or think about that - thanks for the info.
steve