My Classic Boat. Betty II 25ft Gaff cutter. 1921
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ม.ค. 2017
- A stunning little 25ft gaff cutter built in Essex in 1921. Now owned by Ben Collins she is sailed out of Keyhaven in Hampshire.
We spent a day with Ben on a round trip from Keyhaven to Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
A fantastic boat with a larger than life skipper. Copyright Bob Aylott myclassicboat.com Music www.andybillups.com. If you like our videos please subscribe are aim is to reach a 1000 before the start of the UK season. Its just a click way and it's free. Thanks - กีฬา
I find myself revisiting these vids time and again. It’s just comforting to know there are people to whom sailing is so important.
Me too
I really enjoyed this! At 76 my sailing days are over! Nothing like waking up to waves lapping against the hull! I remember one morning looking out the hatch of my Albert 22 early one morning and seeing Orion saying "good morning"! Live life young people. Forget the iPad and get out there !
Very wise advice! I didn't, and it's too late . . . . . .
@@dsdave07 it's never too late, my friend. Keep the anchor of life a weigh as long as possible!
What a beautiful boat!..I used to own a traditional wooden yacht with bowsprit and stern bumpkin. Bermudian rigged with stay sail carvel mahogany on Oak frames ..I fully understand your love of such a beautiful yacht. Agree wholeheartedly that timber boats have a unique soul and are so different and more pleasurable to sail than their glassfibre equivalents..simply Chalk and cheese.Thanks for sharing!
Quite a proper little yacht. Well preserved for her age. I hope she sails for another 100 years.
Beautiful lines. Thanks for sharing.
Boy's and their toys! Nice
Cute lil boat
She's quick she looks so much alive she gives you a lot of love
What a beauty
What a great guy. You can tell he loves his beautiful boat. Cheers from Chicago!
Full of grace, moves like dolphin. Thank you.
Charming.
Nice Captain!🤗
Gorgeous
Very enjoyable tour of an old wooden boat, what character. I sail the Great Lakes around Michigan in a 25 foot fiberglass coastal cruiser. Now retired and in my seventies I can't seem to get enough of it.
Burt Vincent I live 30 miles west of Chicago. Aren’t these videos awesome? I would to visit the Solent and see these gorgeous old wooden boats. Cheers!
@@kgilliagorilla2761 me too.
Man, that old lady was surprisingly quick!
Beautiful
Lovely video.......
This brings peace into the world.
I really enjoy these videos. Thank you for posting.
Betty 11' star
Wow,seriously beautiful an fast
What a lovely old gal.
Nice old boat a real classic.
Betty is a gorgeous boat, wow. Ben seems like a nice guy too, someone I'd like to hang with and learn from as a younger sailing enthusiast.
Great to see the usual high speed MOTOR dunce flying past with no thought for his wash !
Love this channel. Boats and owners. All lovely. Thanks.
Another lovely video of another lovely boat, thanks!
Beautiful video and boat. I used to sail a friends FB in Hawaii. The fwd guy snapped out of its swaged fitting and the loose footed mast went over the side. We "bumped" onto a reef near Diamond Head but a powerboat rescued us and pulled us free. Most excitement ever!
Thank you for that bid of dream...
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful little boat!!
She's a pretty little boat. I like the brown sails too, they bring out the stained wood details that much more.
Very nice Sir!
Thank you for sharing!! She's a sweet one!! Hope you get to sail her many many more years!!
Blessings,
Doug
wow!
Sir , ı am writing from Turkey, your sailboat is totally awesome.
Just amazing.
It have truly a spirit & the bamboo mast is amazing for her more then sufficient so let the fools laughing. Wish u lot of health & strenght Sir. Sail safe 🛥️🧔✌️👍
absolute beauty, splendid little gaffer, love them
Incredibly beautiful boat. Thank you so much for sharing it with us.
Lovely! The boat, the man the video....thank you.
Very nice...
Beautiful! From the thumbnail it looked like a 100ft yacht!
Beautiful boat sir enjoyed the video also What a prick flying past you in his gin pallace some people have no respect he would get a nice fine over here in NZ
Beautiful boat. I'm envious. But 5 people overnighting on that boat? I'd had to be the one that has to go No. 2. ;) Best wishes.
Very nice boat!
A real man of the ocean here! You outta hang a small boatswain´s chair out on the bowsprit and right next to it, a bottle of scots in a gyro....do a little fishin!
Love the way u love your boat
so cute!
What a lovely boat !
Classic, timeless SV.
Absolutely stunning boat
Lovely little cutter. You certainly kept her well, and enjoy her.
excellent video!
I used to sail a gaff rigged schooner with my brother who owned it. It was converted to a staysail but it still was nothing but block and tackle. That was a LOT of line. I believe it was 50' at waterline but it's been a long time. Wood hull boat and smelled of pine tar - I loved that smell. Once the sails were set it was a pleasure to sail.
I expect many Oban (Scotland) people will remember 'Snafu' my 25 foot, 4.5 tonne sloop which I used around the West Coast, oh some 50-60 years ago....
She is beautiful
Nice old boat.
If I could sail more than one boat at a time, that sure would be a fun one!
she's a beauty, looks like a cotta boat with a cabin
Jealous as all get out!! What a grand boat she is! Thank you for posting!
Its a ship
@@Ajay-lu4je it's a vessel.
@@914va ship
@@Ajay-lu4je that's why it's been presented on My Classic Boat. Ooo wait.. it should been presented on My Classic Ship....RIGHT????...
@@914va yes it should
I never really appreciated the boat building heritage of my home stretch on the Essex coast until I found one (Built in Rowhedge) still carrying passengers on lake Wakatipu, New Zealand. Good to see a fine boat, well cared for upon the water.
Joel - do they build tradional wooden boats in that area of nz?
@@hanoitripper1809 I'm not sure in all honesty. I know there are a few boat yards still producing small sailing craft around NZ. But I can't speak of any in the Otago region.
@@hanoitripper1809 People MIGHT build a boat in Otago, as a hobby, but there isn't an industry. It doesn't really have many safe harbours, the coastline is really dangerous to sail around, very few safe natural harbours, and some of the roughest seas year round, of anywhere in the world.
It is firmly in the Roaring Forties, and the fetch of the seas has pretty much the whole bottom of the world to build up, and it sees some severe weather.
Kiwis are pretty famously the worlds best sailor-men as you know, but even we don't treat South Island waters as places to just go for a casual jaunt.
So the average Kiwi who was going to build boats, would ( and do ) simply do it somewhere better suited, like all the world beating harbours of the North Island. Consequently all the things you need are up here, and I would think very little in the way of support Industry is available in the South.
And of course you run into the problem that all the go-ahead, intelligent, successful and attractive Kiwis come and live in Auckland, so it just would be unappealing to work down South.
Beautiful. Sailboats often have personalities. I crewed on a Rival 41 around this time in '85. Not a wooden build and not gaff rigged, but what a joy she was to be aboard with the sun setting and a quartering wind on the Genoa.
Beautiful boat! Very envious. ⛵🙂
Thank you for the beatifull boat and Video
Congratulations! You are a happy man
nice little yacht.
What a beautiful boat and well cared for - you love her and it shows!
Just beautiful thanks for sharing ,
It’s interesting to see a real sailor. It’s beautiful.
She's a beauty.
Your boats gorgeous , I'm jealous.
A pure sailing experience.
lovely. particularly the low profile, though having standing room in the cabin has a certain appeal to it.... thank you!
Awesome baby :-)
simple is nice
I've watched almost all of your videos and the shot at 8:55 is perhaps the prettiest of all of them. just good simple pure sailing.
Thanks for stating the time! It's so wonderful to sense everything during such a moment of another person's fine life.
Sweet job there. I see a labor of love.... everywhere you look, perfect.
Nice boat ... reminds me of an Itchen Ferry.
Beautiful lines!
Beautiful boat, love the sails!
Beautiful!
Stunning series I've just discovered. So beautiful, and the owners so learned and eloquent.
I like your gaff cutter.
Enjoyed the gaff rig discussion.
Great video. well done sir.
beautiful boat !
Great video Ben, Betty II is looking good, and your ease and passion for the boat comes across in a lovely way. I hope the engine instalation is going ok!
Nick
what a cracking boat, I'm sure she's very fond of her owner too! Regards Mark
Nice to see we both have the same wooden storage boxes inside the cabin.... but your boat is far far nicer than mine. Congratulations.
That is a awesome old boat, Im sure you enjoy her alot.
Adorable boat!
Very beautiful boat. .
Fair winds
From Brazil.
Loverly !
lovely boat I had something similar only 21 foot loved seeing the gaff rig much more pleasing to the eye,very good keep going mate,
Awesomeness 😎 beautiful boat
beautiful boat
Love.it
That is a man who knows how to handle a tender. Notice he stopped rowing 10m out, yet came alongside perfectly?
Lovely vessel, I have got almost a similar ship a 1922 Deben Cherub "Sea Nymph "witch I am restoring at the moment.Fair winds Marc
She beautiful!