This blog is about my trials and tribulations of owning a 18 foot trailer sailer. Both have been Bradwell 18's that I grew up seeing on the River Trent in Nottingham. I first owned Holly a mk1 that I had lots of fun with and was sad to see her go. After a brief try of a larger Jaguar22 I decided to return to Bradwells and recently bought Y.KNOT a mk2 and have been impressed so far with the improvments over the older mk1 boats. Hope you enjoy reading my exploits as I share them.
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
hybrid holly
Pictures of Holly with a mainsail off an International 14 sailing dinghy.
This has been the basis of the rig used
Monday, 15 June 2009
ITS A SAILBOAT AGAIN
It has been a very long time since I have put somthing down to say where I am with Holly.
The mast is now complete and works fairly well, I have put the forsail with roller reefing system in place and now have sorted out putting a mainsail on the boat.
This last weekend with the help of a friend from the local sailing club we took Holly out on the River Trent under sail for the first time. This was mainly to test all the rigging and how she handles. The only problem was that the river trent is well known for the trees so sailing was some what ristricted, although I would say that the sail wasnt wasted
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