What a stunning boat, and you've done a great job detailing it. Cheers from New Zealand.

I admire people like yourself I wish you all the best!

Wonderful attitude to life buying something (not just a boat) because it's what you want and not because the herd has other ideas. Love the boat love the mindset .. L'amour est dans le coeur.. UK

I just fell in love with that boat, she is beautiful.

Cool boat! Everything you need.

Beautiful little boat. 17' Gaff Rigged. Tow-able behind an Average Car There's a lot to love about this.

Well done Jeremy can't think of a better reason for buying a boat, enjoy

I saw the photos initially and loved it! Thanks for the video

Pristine and smart lines. Very good video and tour, thanks for sharing. 👍🇺🇸

What a beauty! She's about the same size as my CLC Northeaster Dory, but is splendidly kitted out for cruising and camping. A delight to the eye, and I'm sure a delight to sail.

What a beautiful swan of a yacht and judging by the exquisite maintenance, clearly loved. I only hope she will be just as loved by any subsequent owners.

@martinsnoeimeester9346

Жыл бұрын

Am restoring a 1954 sailboat ...going to enlarge the cabin and use the layout of yours .... the chairs changing to beds ....absolutely great

One of the prettiest boats I've ever seen. And the bright work looks a credit to the owner!

Very nice boat. Classic is always beautiful, I wish you a pleasant day.👍

She is beautiful. Quality and Regal

very nice boat and skipper its great english boat design ... and a good concept for single-handed people

Lovely yatch, nice owner, and very clean and smart cabin design! 👍

Absolutely stunning little yacht :-)

beautiful yacht

I love how brutally honest this guy is

@g-sailing4427

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he’s not going to remove his sleeping bags for some interviewer

it is beautiful

I love your video and agree that your boat is beautiful . She has a lovely spring in her sheer and is a nicely proportined seaworthy design. The designer reveals an understanding of the goodness found in nature. Fair winds or foul , you boat will endure. Paul , an old salt in Canada

Lovely little boat. You can take it home and still admire the beautiful workmanship and tinker about all in cooee when required for home duties.

Memories of wonderful Bowness in 1984, what a pretty boat and a happy owner. Thank you.

She is very pretty!

I love my West Wight Potter 15 but this is gorgeous. The best things are in small packages. To touch the water from the cockpit...

This yacht looks new, like the owner ;-) Thanks for making this great video.

Very nice looking boat. Well worth 25k.

one of best designed boats Iv seen on this channel.....really love the cockpit area

Beautiful ,the toilet is simple and easy, no complications there mate.

What a beautiful yacht!

Beautiful

Definitely a beautiful yacht, I love the design so much and is really a perfect size for just a man and his boat

She's gorgeous, and a perfect single hander. Reminds me of our old clinker built 23' gaff cutter, also a center boarder.

What a fantastic boat! I've got a fishing kayak which I've converted with a sail. But one day hope to have one like yours. That's the dream 👍

Brilliant....beautiful Cutter!

What A beautiful vessel, how do You manage to keep your wood work so fine

@jeremyretford3101

4 жыл бұрын

The boat is now 11 years old. Paintwork is original, varnish gets done a bit each year on a three year cycle. All 2 pack.

Lovely....

Just a very handsome an manageable yacht. Love it for what it is this is my kind of sailing.

Wonderful video. Absolutely adorable boat!

25k for a handmade to order boat of that quality and design seems like a bargain ! Lovely boat and skipper who tells it like it is. Would be great to see some of your trips in her 🙂

@jeremyretford3101

4 жыл бұрын

I have a Google blog called "sailing Margherita". Not put much on lately, but there are loads of pictures - including the build - if you trawl earlier posts.

@jamestaylor3075

4 жыл бұрын

@@jeremyretford3101 She's a beauty! A work of art for sure. You're lucky to have her and she you!

Absolutely beautiful. How the cabin is situated, with the seating for/aft, is a fantastic idea.

Lovely boats.. i will take that if I could afford it over fiberglass one. Enjoy it...

That's how you do it!!!

A lovely boat ! You fit very well together .

i love the looks aof that boat - classic lines and a cutter rigg - nice

Absolutely lovely.

Cozy little sailboat indeed. I wish I could own one but I haven't sailed for decades -week-end golf took over.... Regards from Uruguay

I'm impressed by these pretty little boats and the people who own them.

Lovely little boat!!!

Awesome, a beautiful boat. Cheerio. 🇦🇺🍺👍

beautiful boat !! A feast for the eyes :) I understand comments about modern outboard looking out of place, but as Jeremy stated it is a necessity in some areas with strong tides or currents ... I am right now struggling to make decision what to put on my transom ( an old British-built bilge keeler 20' LOA) because I hate the look of modern small outboards.... and I do not understand why a 4-5HP outboard must look (and be heavy) as an old 50HP 2-stroke outboard !! it is true that 4-stroke engine has (a few) more parts, but 5HP outboard which is coming close to 70-80 lbs is just beyond my comprehension ....

Brilliant! Dear Santa, from across the pond.

Nice lines

Another fantastic video by the great interrogator Bob Aylott. Would've been nice to see if a man fits into that berth. Will have to take his word for it. Nice little boat.

@myclassicboat9083

4 жыл бұрын

Bowman 26 - long keel boat you still here?

@bowman26

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, waiting for my marching orders, but fear that they may never come.

@myclassicboat9083

4 жыл бұрын

We’ve changed are minds - you can stay- get your tin hat we’re going to crash out with a bang- about time too

@myclassicboat9083

4 жыл бұрын

Boris could save your bacon

@bowman26

4 жыл бұрын

My Classic Boat there is little chance - I am neither a woman nor blond.

Beautiful boat, dearly maintained and sailed. Great design which should continue in production.

I like that boat

Beautiful little boat and a great video thank you for sharing

"Some of the snobby ones" Ha Ha. Lovely little boat.

Bravo!!. Cheers, fair winds, and aloha y'all.

Poucas vezes tenho visto um veleiro tão bonito e com tanto cuidado na construção.

charming sailor with a lovely boat.

All the boat I’d ever need. Lovely

Fantastic video and great little classic yacht

Beautifully done!

What lines yoiu can tell right off shese nice. I have an old Nordica 16 still cleaning her up but cant waite! and the sails !!!

My Dad would have loved one of these boats if they had been made in he's day He owned two Driscombs a drifter and a crabber I learnt to sail at my Daddies Knee (he was 1 page ahead of me in the instruction manual)

Excellent. Thank you for posting

Such a beauty.

What a beautiful boat!

So nice 👍

I would say that this would be my ideal boat.

That luu gives a new meaning to the word bedpan

This is a happy little ship !

Lovely little ship

I love it!

excellent video, thanks for that

love at first sight

Nice boat 🙂🙂

This little boat would likely clock up many more nautical miles than the larger "snob factor" behemoths berthed inside a marina longing to be used.

great boat.. great story..

Land Cruiser yesss... standard kit in Australia.

Of all the elements that go into a boat, the one that can't be compromised is beauty. Life's too short to own an ugly boat - quite. Lovely proportions, and a super vessel that suits the type of sailing you wish to do - kudos. Fair winds.

Sadly Origo Stoves are now out of production! So the cooking on board options are getting more complicated.

@vidguy007

4 жыл бұрын

The single burner butane stoves are very inexpensive and safe.

Too small for me , but I'm somewhat of a lard a*#e! Saying that it suits a purpose and looks great. Thanks again CB for another sterling Vlog!

Are there any videos of small Herreshoff designed boats (both Nathanial and L. Francis) such as the 12 1/2 and the Fish Class, Marlins and S boats?

She looks good, but she's technically a sloop because of the location of the mast. The fact that you added a stay sail doesn't change the basic rigging of the boat.

@jeremyretford3101

2 жыл бұрын

In America maybe, but in UK a sloop is generally taken to have one headsail and a cutter two (or more).

Nice boat.

My word, what a gorgeous little ship! Something magical about those wooden sailboats couple with the charming accents. How long would I have to live in your part of the world before the accent would rub off on me? Might be planning a move. :) -Ben

@myclassicboat9083

4 жыл бұрын

Sailboat Story we’re born with them . Thanks for watching

Another example size does that matter what matters is lovely and Grace and of course a wine Locker

Yeh. Perfect touring boat. Love the tent as well yet think I would try to fashion a crapper in the cockpit someplace and if you held the tiller whilst about your business who would know anyway(morning vicar - lovely day) He needs to get a vintage outboard as the one he has spoils the look but I can see the appeal of having such trailering ability plus it is very pretty taboot. )

@jeremyretford3101

4 жыл бұрын

The object of the solution I designed was to avoid having to crap in the cockpit. I have done this on occassion, but generally, there are too many other boats about!

@PaulAnthonyDuttonUk

4 жыл бұрын

Porta potty on deck forward of the mast then with some fashioned vanity curtain maybe. Forward affords a bit of privacy as well and needed distance from the action when you have guests. Lovely lines by the way and can see why she caught your eye.

Fantastic boat...I wonder how she’d fair in rougher water in 25/30 knt wind?

@jeremyretford3101

4 жыл бұрын

I have recently sailed her in gusts of 28kts, with two reefs in the main and jib only (staysail furled). It was in the Solent, with wind over a spring ebb tide and I was beating to windward. It was a bigger squall than expected and very much on the limit of what I was happy with. But, but spilling wind in the biggest gusts, I got from Cowes to Lymington (5 miles) safely and without any gear failures - albeit very wet and rather shaken about. My normal self imposed "happy" limit is about 16-18 knots with one reef in and she is fine with that.

@jasonreid611

4 жыл бұрын

Well Jeremy, even if you aren’t the owner, that was a good overview 🤔

Looks similar to the Wild Duck by Buchanan

I want one

🎈fits in the water well

Lovely boat, but something wrong with the lower rudder pintle? Look carefully around 2min 20 secs.

@jeremyretford3101

4 жыл бұрын

thanks but no, the pintles are fine

Very nice boat. How much would it cost?

@jeremyretford3101

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Mick. You had best ask Dick Phillips who now runs Willow Bay Boats in Lyme Regis (Google him) but Margherita took 8 months for (mostly) one man to build and had about £12K of materials in it. I would estimate that to build one to the same level of fitout and finish now would be close to £30K. Plus trailer and engine!

But the tradition is to put a coin under the heel of a mast. I have a tabernacle on a 19 footer, there's a coin in the tabernacle plus another under the compression post. It's not common to bolt a tabernacle in that way, I wonder why it is. Pity you didn't try a yawl rig, I used to teach in a Salcombe Yawl, lovely versatile rig and you really don't notice the extra string. How much?!!!! Strewth.

@jeremyretford3101

2 жыл бұрын

worth every penny!

Beautiful boat. A shilling was 12 old pennies which is 5 new pence....also known as a Bob.

@jeremyretford3101

4 жыл бұрын

Shilling number five is named Five Bob and number 10 is Ten Bob!

@philipritson8821

4 жыл бұрын

And twenty of them equals a pound. Twenty one of them was a guinea!

Beautiful little gaffer, though verging on being twee. The outboard spoils her perfection. Wouldn’t a sweep, or yuloh be more in keeping with the classic ethos?

@jeremyretford3101

4 жыл бұрын

You are right about the engine, but it is a practical necessity. Tides in the harbour entrance can run at 4kts or more. Don't fancy going against that with a sweep.. Anyway, I can't see it when I'm sailing..

@q.e.d.9112

4 жыл бұрын

Jeremy Retford Of course, in the old days (I’m pushing 80) we had to wait for the tide to turn. Then we got a Seagull, and by the time we got it started the tide had turned, anyway! Still, a Seagull would look more the part. 😉

@jeremyretford3101

4 жыл бұрын

@@q.e.d.9112 My dad used to have seagulls - we got over it happily. Never again. Noisy, oily vibratory and smelly.

He tows this with a Gulf diesel... In the US we would need a 7K pound pickup to move a boat like this.

@jeremyretford3101

3 жыл бұрын

My VW Golf will legally tow 1200KG on a trailer with brakes. Margherita and trailer weigh approx 1000KG. It tows very easily and safely. I love diesel cars!