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The boat is looking better and better. ❤

Those look professionally done

Nice!

Nice video. I always carry an anchor on the sea and in my Lugger always have one in the boat on the lake too. You rightly pointed out that solo sailing, it's often the only way you can secure the boat whilst parking up. On my Lugger which is a 290KG boat I have needed it twice on the lake in very high winds where if I had run aground, it would have been hard to get her back off again. Both times I had a stuck furler and drifted fast to the lee shore. If you have an anchor at the ready, you can throw it off quickly to stop that. What I do a lot is to use the anchor to pull me out of shallows too. I will throw the anchor pull on it once set, get some momentum forward and then weigh it and re-throw. You can make good progress both to shore or from it this way. The outboard is all very well but sometimes the water is already too shallow and it can be a right cuffuffle to start it in a panic. What if you do run out of water or it stalls? On the sea I also carry a Danforth as the bottom up here around Anglesey is mud and sand. They are incredible anchors on the right bed, but god awful on stones and weed!! So I carry a grapple too. Thats useful for hanging onto logs and posts ashore too. Anchors are useful for a lot of reasons. You can anchor in deeper water to catch tides earlier or get a head start when needed. I also like to anchor to the beach and have a skeg to pull me out so I can sleep afloat. Much better sleep and also you don't risk the boat drying out on rocks or anything that could damage her. I kind of like the idea of being able to get going when I want to and not waiting for a tide to come in. Also if you just want a break or some cover, you can sail into a bay and quickly anchor in water. This gives you a break but also the ability to sail on when ready. Very useful and often life saving piece of kit.

I use the Mickael Storer solution (halyard round the mast), with no issue and no extra line. Super easy to use.

No offence intended but the blade is sheep's foot not a drop point. Do you have the knife on a lanyard when you're on a boat ?

Tom is one of one - Thanks!

Great review!

I have a larger boat with a ten year old application of Coppercoat. This video was quite useful to me, because I have a few spots on the vessel that need some repairs to the coating, (though, overall, the Coppercoat shows no sign of giving up, yet). Thanks.

I too have a Gartside designed 17' yawl. I also have the mainsheet on a rope strop attached to the thawt. I think you will experience problems trying to lock the main sheet in the jammers being that high up. I shortened it right down to thawt level, anything higher was very difficult to set. Search Sowelu , i have a couple of videos posted. Pretty boat.

I bought this book a few weeks ago, on the premise that I’d come across Roger Barnes a few years ago. I take it with me everywhere, Mr. Barnes is such a good read…

That boat is a work of art. I think Gartside boats are probably the pinnacle. They are definitely out of my league as an amateur boatbuilder. Maybe in another lifetime.

Bonjour Monsieur Je regarde toute ces vidéos domage que son livre ne soit pas traduit en français.

Nice Review. Well done. I have the same model and enjoy it very much. I didn’t know about the shackle knob feature. Very nice. The opening assist that you used with your thumb can also be used with the pad of your index finger… give it a quick pull with your finger tip while flipping the blade out with a flip of your wrist and the blade will fully deploy and lock out. Thanks again for the review.

I use the Parrel beads on my Standing Lug rig, similar to yours. My solution was to splice the parrel bead cord to the halyard after putting it round the mast. I left enough halyard to tie around the yard, and I can do this from the boat standing aft of the mast. Once the yard is tied off, I hoist away the main sail. If I need a reef, I lower the yard enough to set the reef, then hoist back up and pull down the boom down haul to tension the sail. The beads stay around the mast with the halyard. I use the standing end to tie off the main halyard to a mast cleat and tighten the line when not sailing. This works quite well also. Cheers

I would have kept the original axle pin, and just put a curved small brass disk, fixed to the outside edges, like traditional wooden blocks have done for the last 100 years. That said, I considered adding a block,to the top of my standing lug rig, but decided to keep the drilled slot in my top mast, which has a brass wear strip fixed in the slot’s bottom. This has worked well for the last 15 years. Cheers

that was fun. I subscribed. best, Chuck

Great video !

Roger Barnes is person who know how to live great life with enough. No need big yachts not even new dinghy. He shows how to enjoy with what you have and what a wonderful life it is!

Very nice solution. I'll stick with the mast traveler on my own boat, but this is nice.

Forgot to tell you I'm purchasing a Myerchin folding rigging knife just like yours next month with my 1st retirement check. So, Thank you again, Robert USA

Hi, I want to let you that I very much appreciate your attention to detail. Wondering if you would consider, now that winter is coming in, to make a video showing how you load your trolley with the boat on it, onto the trailer while they are both in your driveway. Thank you, Robert USA p.s. excellent videos!

Following Paul is good practice. I restored Tomboy, a Bolger lug rogged sharpie. She was rigged this way when purchased.

Noce, though wiith a clove hitch on the yard you could get it snug to the mast.

Thanks for the review 👍 it was really helpful in choosing a Myerchin as my new boating knife

I agree with your solution; would a nylon or rubber washer make sense on the ‘head’ of the clevis pin also? The pin will likely have a little more side to side play with this set up, and by itself not a concern, just that the clevis pin moves instead of the original fixed placement. 🤔

After watching your video I realized I was not correctly attaching my halyard around the mast when attaching it to the yard as the original designer intended. Thank you for posting this video it was very informative.

Great job! I plan to use g/flex for gluing wood rails to aluminum picture frames. Thanks for the tips!

Poca spesa, tanta resa (Little expense, high yield)

BTW Paul Gartside is a Cornishman. But he has lived in the US for quite a while.

Well-made video. Thanks. And a lovely boat. I have a Vivier-designed lug yawl rigged Ilur. I use a parrel line, but I like your (Gartside's) parrel line solution. Something to think about.

I always attach the halyard at 1/3 the yard length and put a parrel bead loop at the attachment point. No issues, up down reefed or full, the yard is always next to the mast. No extra lines… looks like you’re attaching the halyard too far aft.

Thankyou - I found this useful. With my lug rigged Pathfinder I opted for Nigel Irens solution of having a 3 part halyard that uses one 'leg' as the raising part and it's second part around the mast acting as a parrel line. I now have a similar thing to work out with a much smaller dinghy and the boat only needs a one part halyard but I think it will be more effective if I also give it a running parrel line as you have done.

Well thought out and very useful discussion. Thank you!

Your videos provide great insight and details as I make my plans for a 'Gentleman's Sailing Canoe' that I will build one day soon.

Solid restoration job and very nice looking boat after all of it. You should be proud!

My outboard always works 100% of the time when I don’t need it, when I need it , it does not work 100% of the time.

I currently have 5 anchors. I only need two. Happy to give a couple away for free. If you need an anchor, ask around the harbor. There will likely be some old salty people with a few extras like me.

Dont fancy forking out for an anchor ??? quick visit to local breakers yard or lorry garage will usually secure an old brake drum for free a quick pressure wash and hammerite job provides an excellent mud weight that digs into mud or sand and will work well for most light boats up to about 25 feet. I would not recommend for off shore or strong tidal currents gales etc but sheltered waters no problem. It will last for years and kept painted will never leave rust stains. chain with a loop through the central hole and rim I always recommend keeping a small spade on board it will dig a pit into mud or sand into which you can bury drift wood with painter attached or mud weight this will hold most boats properly rigged up. and provide an emergency loo, the spade that is not the mud weight.

It is quite some years since I was last at Dell Quay, and whilst Itchenor has changed little , Dell quay has undergone quite a tidy up all those chains of boats in various states of decay south of the quay appear to have vanished all those old open fishing boats and the homespun ply wood day boats with cuddies , old ponton bridge floats converted to various purposes along with the chains they were moored to. I suppose between the wars there must have been a lot of families supplementing their living by fishing Chichester harbour and it's proximities. As a boy I do remember the odd coaster unloading on the end of the quay along with the odd fishing boat, piles of nets and crab pots stacked here and there. The pub was always busy in the summer and the field between the pub and the road got used as a car park. It would appear that the rubber gloved Gabby Mac brigade have been at work, It might look prettier but the soul of the place has gone with the rest of the stuff. There was always the smell of rotting shell fish sea weed and the mud flats has that gone to ??? Oh well most other places have changed why not Dell Quay.

Thanks, I inherited an anchor and will now put it in the boat!

I once tried to anchor a Wayfarer in Calshot creek, which is mud. The mud had a layer of slimy weed covering it. The flukes of the Danforth anchor would not dig in, they kept dragging up a great wodge of weed which slithered along the bottom. Gave up after several attempts. A grapnel, or a fisherman type might have held, but the Danforth was useless in this case. In a dinghy, I carry a folding grapnel with 2m of chain, plus nylon rode. It stows in a mesh bag fixed to the centreboard case.

how heavy is your anchor? i’m wondering what i’ll need for my similar sized dinghy

So you are saying that you can use your wife on the shore, but out on the water you definitely need an anchor.

What is the name of that boat? So nice!

I agree with you on the anchor but frankly if you posted a video two weeks ago about getting caught out by the tidal flow then you probably need to do an RYA coarse and learn a bit about tidal streams and reading charts to get an idea of the shorline composition. I would also invest in some proper sailing gear rather than a pair of converse and a tshirt. Don't rely on the luxury of a call out for assistance. Hope you bought the HM some beers. On the plus side you've got a boat , your getting out and passing on your experiences so good on you.. fair winds 👍

Good info!

What a beautiful sailing boat!

I have a 12 ft dinghy and always carry at least 1 anchor, and often 2, even on the river or reservoir. If nothing else, it's nice to have a break, make a coffee, and possibly even go for a swim from the anchored boat. It's also vital safety equipment.

I think that is very good advice, I'll, take one along in future. Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.