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Vipula De Silva
Username: Vipula_de_silva

Registered: 07-2011
   
Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2012 - 07:23 am:      
Hello Tim and Jane. Collette and I have also just move a WB to the Broads - WB64 Annie Elizabeth. Hopefully will see you on the water sometime.

Tim Willey
Username: Tim_willey

Registered: 03-2012
   
Posted on Monday, March 19, 2012 - 07:42 pm:      
Thank you for the welcome, David and Martin, lovely to hear from you. David, I'll email you about meeting up on the Broads it will be really useful for someone to show us the ropes. i'll try my best to get WB58 on the water by then. By coincidence, I'm restoring the Bulwarks and using the system you suggest on the forum, it certainly will make removing them much easier in the future.

Martin_cartwright
Username: Martin_cartwright

Registered: 04-2008
   
Posted on Monday, March 19, 2012 - 07:17 pm:      
Welcome Tim and Jane. I saw Mortimer last year and she is a lovely boat. Congratulations!

David Cawston
Username: David_cawston

Registered: 03-2007
   
Posted on Monday, March 19, 2012 - 04:44 pm:      
Hi Tim & Jane, out on the Broads this spring, does that mean Easter? We will be launching Markie on Good Friday at Swallowtail Boatyard (after bacon butties for breakfast at Lathams Potter Heigham)before joining the TSA fleet at Potter in the evening. If you can make it (with or without WB58)and would like to meet up and see/be given a helping hand rigging and launching etc please email me davecawston@hotmail.com
Hope to see you at Easter and any other WBers.

Tim Willey
Username: Tim_willey

Registered: 03-2012
   
Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2012 - 04:54 pm:      
Hello everyone. We're new Winkle Brig No.58 owners Tim and Jane. Been drooling over Winkle Brigs for many years (well to be honest, photos of Winkle Brigs) and now at last we have one. Fantastic boat - can't stop looking at her, and after a bit of fettling she will be out on the Broads this Spring. Her previous name was Mortimer, a perfectly good name I know, but as my name's Tim and I have a CSE in French, I worked out that the name had the disconcerting inference of Death-Tim-Sea. Now I know it's bad luck to change a boat's name (without the correct ceremony) but I think it's even worse luck to encourage disaster by spelling it out on your Transom! If any one out there has any ideas on the correct name-changing ceremony I'd love to hear your views and I hope you all don't mind me picked your brains in the future on the practicalities of sailing, trailing and maintaining the lovely Winkle Brig.

Julian Swindell
Username: Julian_swindell

Registered: 03-2007
   
Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 04:17 pm:      
PS Yes that is Daisy G's mizzen mast and sail stuck in the poor wee thing.

Julian Swindell
Username: Julian_swindell

Registered: 03-2007
   
Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 04:15 pm:      
I've "only" got two (I say only as I think I got up to five at one stage) Like Roger I haven't had a WB for some years now. First my joy, Baycruiser 20 Daisy Grace.

Then my toy, a modified Portuguese style dinghy which I built last year and have rowed all of 50 yards on the local river so far. Working name Nellie Grace

David Cawston
Username: David_cawston

Registered: 03-2007
   
Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 11:30 am:      
Roger, you make a habit of showing off your underwater profile! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4I080_NKGw (apologies for repeating this posting but I do like it)

Roger Parish
Username: Roger_parish

Registered: 03-2007
   
Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 10:33 pm:      
Hi Nick, Not sure I qualify to answer your post as I only have one boat having sold the WB.
My boat is a Postboat. Plastic with lots wood trim and long ballasted keel like the WB. It carries same sail area but 14ft 6ins on deck and it is important to reef early in a blow as the pictures show! At least you can see the underwater profile!

Nick Baker
Username: Nick_baker

Registered: 03-2007
   
Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2012 - 09:57 pm:      
As we are a bit low on postings maybe we can talk about this.
I came back from the UK after Christmas with a Tideway 12 built in 1968 which needs some work so now I have WB 9 to get ready for the season and also my new toy.
I also have a Walker Bay plastic dinghy which I use to get to my mooring.
Classic Marine love me - lots of brass and bronze bits arriving by every post!
What other boats do you have?

Roger Parish
Username: Roger_parish

Registered: 03-2007
   
Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 10:14 pm:      
I have seen this video clip before of James Lawrence sailing his WB.
Did you notice a comment posted about the clip which refers to the WB in Australia. Link below:
http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?144675-lovely-boat-lovely-bloke-winkl e-brig-balanced-lug

Martin_cartwright
Username: Martin_cartwright

Registered: 04-2008
   
Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 09:25 pm:      
Here is another in the Winklebrig extended family!
http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?144675-lovely-boat-lovely-bloke-winkl e-brig-balanced-lug
I went down to see James Lawrence sails at Brightlingsea today to discuss the suitability of a lug rig with my two foresails. When I was there I bumped into an old ex-sailing barge skipper who told me that in this part of the world the original Winklebrig came about when in the 19th century the Thames sailing barges put lugsails on their 'tenders' and thus the Winklebrig was born.
He felt that the lugsail is the natural choice for the modern Winklebrig as it overcomes the weather helm issues inherent in boats with the mast as far forward as ours.

Alison_bergqvist
Username: Alison_bergqvist

Registered: 06-2012
   
Posted on Friday, June 29, 2012 - 12:54 pm:      
Hi David & Cate
Good to know you are still happily hitched to Markie after so long. I wonder if you hold the record for the longest relationship with a WB? Perhaps you will have to trade her in for something more comfy and capacious eventually. Or swallow the anchor and swap Winkle Brig for Winnebago - sublime to ridiculous!
Alison

David Cawston
Username: David_cawston

Registered: 03-2007
   
Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 10:02 pm:      
Hi Alison,
Delighted you have found the forum. When we show people around Markie we tell them how you were responsible for the excellent layout below decks. You really did a great job in such a restricted space and it works for us, although after 25 years of WB ownership, as we get older and yearn for creature comforts, we are disappointed you did not design in a shower and standing headroom :-)
Dave & Cate

Alison_bergqvist
Username: Alison_bergqvist

Registered: 06-2012
   
Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 06:19 pm:      
Whoops - sorry - I see what you mean. I am the ex-wife who helped him design and market the early Winkle Brigs. I was referring to my own family of Selways rather than Eric's Bergqvist family. He was very much alive and kicking a few weeks ago and I assume still is today!