We have this morning with heavy hart accepted an offer for Chuckle. Her new home is as keen as we are to see her well cared for and used to her full potential, wonderful news and a great relief to find a great home for her.
Now what boat to choose to extend our sailing experience, i have written off a bigger wooden boat now, due to the extra size and the maintenance demand on top of everything else will be too much, perhaps when the children are more independent or have left home, sooooo….. Fergus, freyja and myself (jenny away at work) have decided if we have to accept a piece of Tupperware we will only settle for the unsinkable well insulated, sea kindly/worthy, versatile, spacious (to us) and fit for longer family passages to the baltic and beyond, fit for weekends and month long cruises away, is a bilge keeled Sadler 34. humm, how will i put the price tag to jenny……..15 years of holidays afloat? Does mum really want to do night watches, and longer passages? Jenny has agreed to do some night watch experience on a course or in some other way before we make the commitment. Deep breath. swallow, tear in my eye, no more chuckling………..
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?
chuckle
Thursday, 20 August 2015
Sunday, 16 August 2015
CHUCKLE FOR SALE
Sale due to children out growing their
birth. We love our chuckle it has been a great pleasure sailing her, taking all
our family holidays in her and maintaining her as a family project. We would
like to find a new owner who is able to take full advantage of her continued
potential given appropriate maintenance and care. Please see this sailing blog
for more information than you might need:
http://nordicfolkboatchuckle.blogspot.co.uk
We would like to begin looking for a new
wooden boat of 33' for family cruising, chuckle has inspired us to go further
and find new horizons we hope very much its new owners will gain as much from her as we have. Any
offer considered from a potentially perfect home, for example a young family
wishing to begin sailing with woodworking skills and the time and resources to
carry it off.
£2500 ONO
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