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oohh can i join in?

Here's Wild Bird under sail


and at anchor (oops- rather - on a mooring bouy!) in The isles of Scilly



not yet sailed her to scotland!



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What particular model of Island Packet is she?

Wildbird wrote:oohh can i join in?

The more, the merrier - and Wild Bird is a real beauty. What is she?

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Some obscure kind of LakeSailoring I think . . .

A simultaneous lakesailor perhaps?

Island packet???? PAH! Nothing un british!

She's a (rival) Bowman 40

Hence the logo on the main, for anyone who bothered to look, I suppose.

I am a big fan of IPs, but a Bowman is better . . .

Silkie wrote:Beautiful, but is the doghouse original? I had thought that early FBs were not so extravagantly equipped.

Love the ensign.

You're the first person to describe her as 'extravagantly equipped'! Indeed a very good question and the answer is almost certainly not. Border Maid seems to have been one of the first UK built Folkboats, from Woodnutts in St Helens IoW in 1948 and was originally a proper Nordic Folkboat with a low coachroof. She was substantially modified some time in the 60s with a new coachroof, doghouse, deck stepped alloy mast (still in service) and a spreader rig rather than the proper Folkboat rig with one stay each side and jumpers. I think the Stuart Turner inboard, since replaced, was probably installed at the same time. I quite like the coachroof which I think gives her a Vertue-ish or perhaps a somewhat Robert Clarkly look.

Better late than never I spose First time back on the forum for a while, so here's some pics of Snow Petrel, my Warrior 35, from last summer

A fine looking vessel (and the anchor ball is the bees' knees) but do you have anything in next season's budget for a new main?

Silkie wrote:A fine looking vessel (and the anchor ball is the bees' knees) but do you have anything in next season's budget for a new main?

Yes, it's a bit sad isn't it? Mind you, the home-built slab reefing works a treat - I spent a lot of the trip with 2 reefs in and the sail sets OK then

...and I hope to get a new Crusader main in the New Year

Also note the anchor light screwed to the anchor shape, with a flying lead to the cockpit 12v outlet - neat idea huh?

Sorry, that was very rude of me.

Can't find an "Under Sail" pic





At anchor, whoops without ball, Rubh an Dunain, SW Skye



Alongside, Glenmore Bay, L Sunart

On the subject of anchor lights please note the B&Q special

Not her natural habitat, but it was a fun week, and the bar bill was enormous.