The three way seat is great !, multi function at it's best. Nice boat and design.

Stunning example of the Contessa 26, one of my favorite designs.

very lovely boat!

Always liked these boats. I love the curved companionway entrance too. One of my favourite youtube sailing channels sails one of these and he's always seemed happy with it.

@AndysEastCoastAdventures

6 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dron/A3yRZqBii0msbSmjecmQqw.html

My dream boat. Great video. 👍

@xenu-dark-tony

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, mine too. Her and the Cutlass 27.

Great little video, lovely boat.

Beautiful topsides🙂

Perfect boat!!! :)

To finish second after that start is an accomplishment. I'm an admirer of the Contessa 26 (and, especially, of the C 32) but for American viewers I must point out her big weakness, and it's not lack of headroom. It is lack of sail area. This is endemic to all boats designed for the English Channel and nearby areas. That is a tough neighborhood and most of the boats carry what an American would characterize as a short rig, and properly so. Over here our problem is not too much wind, but too little. Long Island Sound and Puget Sound must be two of the lightest-air regions on the planet. The Great Lakes are better, but still conditions are pretty mild in the summer. A Contessa 26's sail area/displacement ratio is a bit over 12. An American boat generally runs about 16-17. My sister had a J 33; that boat's SA/D ratio was 22. Now, there's some horsepower! Still, some people over here sail folkboats (the C 26's progenitor) with stock rigs...so, it can be done. Still, whether it is money, horsepower, or sail area, I think more is better. Others may have a different option, of course. All in all, I think the Contessa 26 is a lovely boat. I wish I had one. With a bigger rig.

Nicely done video! Love my JJT built Contessa 26.

Lovely boat

Great video of a fine craft - they're fun boats! Many thanks.

I really enjoy your videos:) my personal favourite boat vids :)

I had one many years ago in the West of Scotland. I then moved to London for work and had her on the Lymington River for a couple of years. I am now in Edinburgh and my sailing days are behind me. I have fond memories of the Solent, is the Chequers pub still there I wonder? Well, it was warm and dry after a wet day on the water!

Lovely boat always admired them shame about the room below but hey you can't have everything.

In combination with the cushion..... there are actually even six seats!! Just joking.... love your vid:thumb and subscription!! I own a Laurin Koster 28, hopefully ready for sailing next season.... I feel related..... Greetings Henk, Elim, the Netherlands....

Thanks for the upload, a great vid of men (don't bother calling me sexist as I'm not) having a hobby an executing it well!!!! I wish society was structured like that!

Great video always liked the CO26 prettiest grp boat I almost bought 1 but decided to go with the Sadler 25 for the extra room

@myclassicboat9083

6 жыл бұрын

Sailor Moon where are you moored, UK I hope

@sailormoon2548

6 жыл бұрын

My Classic Boat Hi yes I am I'm based on the muddy east coast

Great excellent wonderful video. I'm curious what the engine configuration is

this one is a good one 7 out of 10 bob in derby

@myclassicboat9083

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks bin diver

I see you have a traveler on the pushpit? I've considered that myself. Would you be able to describe how you mounted it?

🤘

An 18 year old girl went around the world in one o these

Perhaps lower volume of the dog barking at the beginning? My eardrums just about exploded. Not the first time for a "My Classic Boat" KZread video

@kitthearty

4 жыл бұрын

That damned dog (headphones). I'm ready for it now.... except when I'm not. :)

@MrBluoct

4 жыл бұрын

More cowbell and more dog barking 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

These are great boats, I came close to buying one more than once. I think the lack of standing headroom more than anything else kept them from becoming popular. The type has real potential as a world sailor.

@markturner4219

4 жыл бұрын

With 750+ built and a production run of 1966 - 1990 I'd say they were pretty popular. About the same number as her big sister the Contessa 32.

Definitely an unusual Contessa, the cockpit with aft deck is unusual! Contessa's don't normally have deck aft of the cockpit!

@dominicbuckley8309

2 жыл бұрын

Jeremy Rogers redesigned the cockpit, making it smaller and self-draining in about 1972: all UK-built CO26s after this date have a larger aft deck, though I think the Canadian-built ones may have stuck with the original mouldings..

Thoreau would like your seating.

Wow, that is pretty spacious inside for 26 feet, no?

Oh gosh ... at 2:50 ... ceiling??? I’m sure you mean the deckhead. 😉

@uppitywhiteman6797

6 жыл бұрын

Overhead

Nice video - brings back memories of racing my Father's Contessa 26 Red Dragon in Lymington almost 50 years ago. By the way - are you the same Richard Pickance that was at St. John's School in Leatherhead at the same time as me, many years ago. Good sailing and stay safe from the virus please.

@richardpickance9254

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Peter. Yes,it is the same me!.. How are you and where are you? We live near Lymington now.

If you raised the cabin 3 inches such that you did not need a crash helmet to make a cup of tea would it still qualify to be in that race?

So many of these classics are under 30' is there a reason for smaller boats over there?

@myclassicboat9083

5 жыл бұрын

It's the price and cost of maintenance. You can pick up boat around 26ft really cheap now.

@VideoNozoki

5 жыл бұрын

also, the country is rich with rivers and channels that are very shallow at low tide. With a 30ft or less, it makes more of these navigable (if you time it well).

@markturner4219

4 жыл бұрын

Large boats were built for the rich up until the ball got rolling with fibreglass and higher production runs. Small boats were designed to make sailing accessible to people of lower income (but still 'Middle Class). At the bottom of the financial scale came 'kit' boats that could be completed in gardens and garages. As a nation Britain (and Europe) had far less disposable income post WW2 than the USA, where larger boats were far more common earlier on. The nature of our shore line had nothing to do with it. The length of a boat doesn't determine its draft.

@xenu-dark-tony

3 жыл бұрын

@mrpinks Yes, the US came out of WW2 FOUR times as rich as when it went in. It made as a condition of it joining the fight against Hitler Britain's disposal of her inherited Imperial responsibilities, even though in truth America knew that if it didn't fight the war overseas (in Europe and the Far East) it would be soon fighting a significantly more powerful Axis on American soil. Whilst I love America and its people, this is typical of the self-serving politics for which it is internationally notorious. 'Give us your oil or we'll invade you on some spurious pretext and take it anyway'. Even the poorest countries are shamelessly fleeced in order to keep America rich. I'm sure if Americans realised this they would be appalled, especially Democrats who see themselves as socially aware but are part of this colossal international gangsterism. The ultimate insult is when American people criticise other countries for struggling by despite the ravages wrought on other countries by America's greed. It really galls one to hear American tourists in London criticising us for being poorer than they, having shite weather and for nothing being as good as it is "back home".

Does anyone know why he says this type of boat wasn't suitable for the Mediterranean?

@labarone8910

5 жыл бұрын

I think it was the previous owner that said he didn't think it suitable. Well, he was French I suppose. Does that answer your question?

@johnwang9914

5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps it needs more ventilation to deal with the heat. It does have an unusual companionway which doesn't open up on top.

@markturner4219

4 жыл бұрын

He was British, but really the boat is not big enough as a cruising live aboard in a warm climate unless you are a Spartan. Having said that many C26's have crossed oceans and circumnavigated.

Is the boat basically a plastic copy of a danish Folkboat?

at first I thought gawd what an ugly boat, but then the more I looked at it the more it looked cute. very interesting. nice boat, very nice.

Is it likely or possible that you could cross the Atlantic in this model? What engine does it have?

@SaveWesternCivilisation

3 жыл бұрын

You can circumnavigate the world in it, a few have done so. I prefer the Top Hat 25 - full standing room, slightly heavier, a little safer too, also a proven circumnavigate. This boat has a glorious interior, however. Cheerio!

Love the bark at the beginning. Turn it up!

Goddamn I hate this channel, it makes me want so many different boats

Personally I hate videos shot with fish-eye lenses like go-pro

@styx85

6 жыл бұрын

Why?

@jacobjorgenson9285

4 жыл бұрын

How's that hate working for you?

Lovely boats, great video spoiled only by the puerile music!

Clickbaiting. Photo and caption seem interesting but the extreamly loud dog barking makes people - click off - before watching the video. The maker of the video has credit for the click which must be all they care about.

@virgilgrillone7220

5 жыл бұрын

Michael: I don’t think its clickbait. The dog thing is an intro that lasts, what, 3-4 seconds? Its quite short. What Classic Boat does goes a long way to promote folk boats, and the preservation of these wonderful little ships. Clickbait to me is seeing some ridiculous hideous sea monster and you never see that frame in the entirety of the film. These productions take much time and effort, and for that I am grateful for their sacrifice.

@MrBluoct

4 жыл бұрын

More pup !!!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘