falmouth Oyster Dredger 24' x 6'6” X 4'6”. Dorset £12,000
Built In Mevagissey, Cornwall In 1908 on traditional West Country lines as an open fishing boat with straight stem, transom stern, long keel. Carvel planked tight seamed pine planking hastened with Iron dumps to sawn oak frames with grown.oak floors. Swept laid deck In painted pine boards, caulked & payed forms fore deck, after deck. & waterways each side with painted cock-pit coamings. Pine - bottom boards In the large open cock-pit. New rudder & *hangings In 1994.. Several shifts, of planking replaced In the same refit. Approx 3 tons of Iron pigs Internal ballast.
Gaff, cutter rig on new 1994 varnished keel stepped mast, new bowsprit. Varn. 1 shed boom with slab reefing 8-blocks. Varnished gaff with leather clad Iron Saddle, Most blocks new from Collin Frake in the 1994 refit. Hempex running rigglng. Galvanised wire standing. rlgging set up to dead-eyes,Runners on tackles seldom used. Fore stay set up in the traditional West Country fashion to an Iron bumpk In extending out from the steam head,replaced new. 1994 .Bowsprit guys set up.to tackles. chain bob stay to Iron blocks. New suit of sails from Jimmy Lawrence 1994 comprise 3 slab reef mainsail, staysail & jib In whIte terylene- Atso older No 2 jib & yard topsail.
Shamrock Is a totally authentic & original example of this type & stif has no engine although there are signs that an engine has been Inspalled at some time In her life. Built as a 2-masted lugger as the early West Country boats were., known to have worked In the Scillies until the war, bought by present owner 5 years ago In Essex & refitted. Now sailed by the family mostly In Poole Harbour & easily hand.led under sail. It Is seldom that an original example to the type comes onto the market. They are enormous fun to own & sail |
