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

Saturday 6 February 2016

A wonderful glimpse of dinghy racing in 1950's plymouth

I found this gem of a film in YouTube. I know the launch ramp really well. Impossible for Arwen to use. Can't get a car down to it any more and it would be too steep anyway. What was particularly nice was to see the area without the pontoons there now........a lovely clip. Very enjoyable.

http://youtu.be/QhUGsDxSR2U


4 comments:

Steve-the-Wargamer said...

Cracking... and did you notice?? Apart from the lady with the buoyancy aid not a life jacket to be seen....

steve said...

I know, scary? No interest in health and safety?
It was lovely seeing plymouth in the 1950's

Unknown said...

I learned to sail from that slip and remember paddling back with panic on occasion when the bungs didn't make the departure!

steve said...

Jon
I would love to use that slip but heavy boat, steep slip, no trailer access...sad. Worse still the one 50m away has dog leg in it, still steep, and no where to tie off boat if single handed. Plymouth City council do need to rethink their slips slightly