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.
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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

Wednesday 19 October 2016

Whilst rushing through the barbican at the weekend

I came across...............

Alec from the BBC One Show

being filmed by this chappie...

I then paused to admire this beauty.......

before my eye was caught by something unusual in the Barbican!

And having walked towards the tall masts, I came upon this special one......

A Russian tall ship on a fleeting stopover.....................

with lots of masts and rigging..........

plenty of crows nests.......................

and a rather fine mizzen sail 


quite a fierce some figure head.......

which proved to be one of many carvings on board ...........










ooohhh! They are mermaids........now I see them from a different perspective!!

the police paid a visit to admire the ship...................

whilst the crew re-tensioned the rigging

and made sail repairs.................





I suspect they will get around to repairing the scrapes...........


clearly they have bought spare timber for such eventualities.........

she sort of fitted in well with the ambiance of the old Barbican











2 comments:

Alden Smith said...

Great photos. Freydis looks like a Alan Buchanan design circa 1960s. The Russian tall ship is a very interesting boat - it would be interesting to see what she looks like on the inside.

steve said...

Thanks Alden
I couldn't get on board and she has since departed. Pity really.