This is the story of our family affair with Chuckle the Nordic Folkboat. 'CHUCKLE' is clinker built with Mahogany planks on Oak frames with Spruce spars. A classic wooden boat. She was built by Harry Feltham in Portsmouth in 1954, one year after the famous singlehanded transatlantic sailer Blondie Hasler had his Folkboat 'Jester' built in the same yard. Perhaps 'Chuckle' and 'Jester' are sisters?
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Monday, 13 July 2015
Afloat
Well we made it. This is the first evening of our summer cruise on chuckle. Spent all day packing at home then unpacking into chuckle. We r getting better at it. Fergus and freyja rowed the tender giggle down the harbour from the slip and then all hands including granny sue helped load everything from the truck into chuckle. Jenny has still to learn where to put everything. We realised how out of practice of life afloat we r with few visit for the night this year so far. Will try harder to come more regularly from now on but we have had such a busy year. Fergus and freyja despite their high excitement remained useful with some gentle encouragement. Having packed everything we forgot the cutlery again, we improvised and survived.
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