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

Thursday, 3 February 2011

........odds and sod's......

Not much to post today – will update on my progress on the starboard gunwale at weekend; along with some of the pre-planning I’m doing for some of my proposed summer trips. I was on Gavin’s site (http://intheboatshed.net/  ) the other day and he had a lovely Youtube clip of some old dinghies being sailed in the 1960’s at Looe – one of the places I aim sailing to in August.




Since then Gavin has given more details of these dinghies which are Redwings – visit his site to find out more about them. Last summer I was at Looe and I think I may have come across one of two of these – they were having a dinghy race with some old wooden dinghies which one guy said had been the subject of some conservation project – I’m now wondering if they were actually surviving Redwings
I also found this clip of a navigator sailing but I can’t find where I got it from....and I can't remmeber whether I've put it on the site or not before - a Homer 'doh!' moment again - sorry folks - anyway if you know who it is ....please do let me know so that I can acknowledge them....I know I downloaded it from YouTube but in my haste forgot to book mark the page or record the details. If it is you reading this blog – I’m really sorry and I hope you don’t mind me showing off your wonderful boat and sailing skills.





Steve

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