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 2 April 2015

a pleasant surprise at the Barbican

Was the tall ship Kaskelot. She is a three masted barque which has undergone a refit at T Neilson's yard up at Gloucester.


She is also one of the largest ships on the water in this type and it must have been some feat helming her through the lock gates and then turning her around past Capt'n Jaspers.




This morning her crew were getting her ship shape. Some people had turned up expecting her to be open as per the website instructions. It was also published in the local paper as well. However, the crew , slightly offhand I thought, just told people that she wasn't ready and they couldn't be blamed for a website error. That was the fault of the website editors.
Um!




Anyway, she is beautiful and I am led to believe that all the crew sail her and look after her in a very traditional way.




There is a brief summary at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaskelot_(tall_ship)

http://www.tallshipkaskelot.com/

Kaskelot by the way is Swedish for sperm whale
Just in case anyone was wondering!

 

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