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, 18 February 2016

Another video from Roger..

I'm not quite sure where he is heading with these, whether it be a regular series or some one off videos, but they are good and useful. Here is his latest. Enjoy.
http://youtu.be/aC85FlAREOU


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3 comments:

Rik said...

I like the videos. Especially the singing seabird...

18 February 2016 at 19:06
steve said...

Not sure I agree Frank. The issue was they couldn't climb onto the centreboard because it had retracted back into the centrecase. Other capsize videos I have seen of a navigator show it popping back up rapidly when you stand on centreboard. Arwen popped up quickly. However, since then, some hatches have warped and don't seal properly so I'm not so sure what would happen next time.....and I did test without sails on.....so clearly a need for a retest!!

19 February 2016 at 07:59
Joel Bergen said...

I really enjoyed Roger's videos. Thanks for posting them, Steve. More proof that I'm not packing nearly enough stuff onboard Ellie :)

20 February 2016 at 02:06

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