Vela Astillero clasico Hillyard

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Buena web Port bo, Gracias!!
Me he quedado prendado viendo algunos ejemplares, pensando en los años que tinen en sus costillas y las historias que podrían contarnos esos buques algunos de ellos construidos a comienzos del siglo pasado!
Espero que no lo haya elegido otro cofrade ántes que yo pero de momento me acabo de enamorar de ésta maravilla...



For Sale - Our cherished 1939 12 Ton Hilyard Ketch "Lady Corinne"

A beautiful 45 foot overall double ended, carvel planked hull with
Pitch Pine planking on Oak Frames she was started in Littlehampton in
1939 and the hull was completed before the yard turned its attention
to the war effort. During the next few years she lay in a mud berth
where the salt water preserved her timbers until she was finished and
commissioned in 1945 She was the first boat to leave the Hilyard yard
after the war.
She has had a colourful life including many years as an RAF training
ship after being bought to replace one of the windfall yachts gained
from the Luftwaffe which was dashed on the rocks somewhere off the
French coast. We returned to Chichester last year after a 16 day
Transatlantic crossing from the Cape Verde Islands to St Lucia in the
Caribbean after which followed an extended cruise around the Islands.
The final chapter saw us enter her for the Antigua Classics in 2010
where we achieved 2nd in class and second place in the Privately
Maintained Concours de Elegance. In spite of her years this Lady is
still turning heads - a true beauty she really is a gem and is much
admired everywhere she goes getting praise from lots of passing boats.
She has a ton of solid Douglas Fir for her main mast together with a
beautiful 8' Bowsprit and a short Bumpkin.