More on Greenshanks...

[Peter Nobes]

Hi all.  

My new Greenshank "Diya"  was launched last month in the Capability Brown designed lake in Danson Park, south east London.  It was gusting Force 1, so the perfect day for a nervous sailor to launch a new boat.

The rowing pic was taken a few days later at Orford in Suffolk.

Best
Peter

[Frogsider]

Hi, Peter

Very nice boat!  I modified mine bit, building in buoyancy/dry stowage and a foredeck to help keep spray out.  To be honest, yours looks better - but mine has good sea-keeping qualities and places to keep stuff dry and out-of-sight.  

I used an alloy mast (in 2parts) and boom, with a sleeved luff bermudan sail from a similar boat I built 30 years before.  It performs well under sail. For rowing I carry a pair of 2-part wooden oars that stow easily inside the boat.

I am about to give the boat to my grandchildren, so I'm glad I tested the rudder to destruction before they did.

All the best
Patrick  

[Port-Na-Storm]

Excellent job Peter, she looks really great.

Graham

[Frogsider]

This is my Greenshank

[Anders]

Very nice both of them.

I have a soft spot when it comes to Clinker prams.

[Peter Nobes]

Thanks Graham.  She's not up up your standard of workmanship but I'm still very happy with her.

Anders - sadly they're both stitch and tape, not clinker.  Still cute though!

Patrick - I pored over the pics of your build as I was building mine.  I wish I'd thought about buoyancy before I finished her as I would have boxed-in under the thwarts.  I've put bags under the rear and middle thwarts but as they weren't going to be sufficient I put two small ones along the hog near the daggerboard case - I couldn't put one under the front thwart as the mast goes through it.  I did a capsize test on a beach in the Thames and found that she floats above the daggerboard case when I'm not aboard but doesn't when I am aboard, so I need to re-think at some point.

Best
Peter