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Bossoms Boatyard
Bossoms Boatyard is located opposite Port Meadow, Oxford, England, on the bank of the River Thames. History The yard was managed by the Bossom family from about 1830 until 1945, when the last in a line of several generations retired from the family business. Boats continue to be built by the company at this site to this day. Bossoms was one of the first boat builders to develop the use of GRP for hulls. They specialise in building both sailcraft and craft with electric motors and are one of the few boat builders still in existence that exhibited at the first ever London Boat Show. Boats Some of the craft built by Bossoms include: * The Vertue (yacht) * The Bosun (dinghy) * The Minisail (dinghy) * The Admiralty Sailing Craft (ASC) 16 foot dinghy * Electric boats [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boat Builders
This is a list of boat builders, for which there is a Wikipedia article. Motorboats (<50 feet) *American Skier *Andrée & Rosenqvist *Bayliner *Beneteau *Boston Whaler *Brunswick Boat Group *Carter Safari 28, Carter Marine *Carver Yachts *Centurion Boats *Chaparral Boats *Chris-Craft Boats *Cimmarron Boats *Clyde Boats *Cobalt Boats *Correct Craft *Cruisers Yachts *Evinrude Outboard Motors, Evinrude *Front Street Shipyard *Glastron *Gulf Craft *HanseYachts *Jade Yachts *Jeanneau *Kadey-Krogen Yachts *Lowe Boats *Malibu Boats *MasterCraft Boats, MasterCraft *Maxum *Nautique *Ocean Alexander *Pearson Yachts *Porta-bote *Sea Ray *Ski Nautique *StanCraft Boat Company *Sunseeker *Ta shing (yacht) *Tayana Yachts *Tiara Yachts *Tollycraft *Trojan Yachts *Uniflite *Wacanda Marine *Herbert Woods *Horizon Yachts *Yamaha Motor Corporation *Princess Yachts *Benetti *Blohm + Voss *Burger Boat Company *Cantieri di Pisa *Codecasa *Ferretti Group *Front Street Shipyard *Gul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures In Oxford
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Shipyards On The River Thames
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Year Of Establishment Missing
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Medley Sailing Club
Medley Sailing Club is a dinghy sailing club on the River Thames, situated adjacent to Bossoms Boatyard opposite Port Meadow in Oxford, England. The club is notable as the farthest upstream sailing club on the Thames and for its large fleet of British Moth British moth is the name of an sailing dinghy designed in 1932 by Sydney Cheverton. The first boats built were sailed on the Brent Reservoir in north London North London is the northern part of London, England, north of the River Thames. It ... boats. It was founded in 1937. See also * Bossoms Boatyard References External links Club website 1937 establishments in England Sports clubs and teams established in 1937 Yacht clubs in England Sport in Oxford Sport on the River Thames Organisations based in Oxford {{England-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minisail (dinghy)
The Minisail is a 13-foot single-handed dinghy which was designed by Ian Proctor in 1959 and became popular in the 1960s. It was the predecessor to the Topper and was the first British production boat to popularise the idea of the "sailing surfboard". As the Topper gained popularity in the 1980s, the Minisail disappeared from the scene. However, on 28 August 2011, a group of enthusiasts restarted the Minisail Class Association, which now has a small but committed following mainly in north-west Europe. Design history The Minisail was inspired by the American Sailfish dinghy which David Thorpe and Ian Proctor had viewed whilst in the US, and was the first British attempt to create, in effect, a sailing surfboard. The initial prototype was built by Chippendales Boatyard in Emsworth, near the home of the designer Ian Proctor, and subsequently also licensed for initial production to Bossoms Boatyard and PlyCraft. It was noted for its rapid acceleration. Even by modern standards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosun (dinghy)
The Bosun is a 14-foot GRP sailing dinghy originally created for the Royal Navy by designer Ian Proctor and built by Bossoms Boatyard in 1963. The design specification was for a robust dinghy, able to handle open seas, capable of carrying a crew of 3 to 4 people and be fast enough for a competent helm to enjoy sailing, whilst stable enough for a beginner to learn on. The sailmark is a boatswain's call A boatswain's call, pipe or bosun's whistle is a pipe or a non-diaphragm type whistle used on naval ships by a boatswain. The pipe consists of a narrow tube (the gun) which directs air over a metal sphere (the buoy) with a hole in the top. The .... References Dinghies Boats designed by Ian Proctor {{ship-type-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vertue (yacht)
The Vertue Class of yacht is a 25'3" length design by Laurent Giles dating from 1936, when ''Andrillot'' was launched. The class was not named Vertue until 1946: it collected the name in the wake of the win by ''Epeneta'' - a boat built to the design - of the Little Ship Club's 'Vertue Cup' In 1939 the ''Epeneta'' had completed a cruise from The Solent to Belle Île in Southern Brittany and back in only 19 days. The Vertue Cup, donated by Michael Vertue to the Little Ship Club in 1927, is given for the best log of a cruise longer than a week by a member of the club. The design has an enviable reputation as a long-distance cruiser, with several remarkable cruises completed by boats of this class and close derivatives, in particular by Humphrey Barton, in ''Vertue XXXV'' and by Eric and Susan Hiscock Eric Charles Hiscock (14 March 1908 – 15 September 1986) was a British sailor and author of books on small boat sailing and ocean cruising. Together with his wife and crew Susan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Boat Show
The London Boat Show was an event held in London from 1955 to 2018, organised by British Marine. First held at Olympia, it was later moved to the Earls Court Exhibition Centre, and finally the ExCeL Exhibition Centre. The show's cancellation was announced in May 2018, with organisers citing the show as commercially unviable for the industry in its current format. History The first London Boat Show was held at Olympia, before moving to the Earls Court Exhibition Centre in 1957. A popular feature of the show during its time at Earls Court was the use of the venue's pool area to host floating boats for visitors' inspection. It had expanded for some years into Chelsea Harbour before being moved to ExCeL in 2004. The inclusion of smaller craft such as dinghies, kayaks, canoes and stand-up paddleboards, as well as popular watersports such as wakeboarding, led to the inclusion of thWatersports Action Pool where visitors could watch the craft indoors. The show was usually ten days long, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hull (watercraft)
A hull is the watertight body of a ship, boat, or flying boat. The hull may open at the top (such as a dinghy), or it may be fully or partially covered with a deck. Atop the deck may be a deckhouse and other superstructures, such as a funnel, derrick, or mast. The line where the hull meets the water surface is called the waterline. General features There is a wide variety of hull types that are chosen for suitability for different usages, the hull shape being dependent upon the needs of the design. Shapes range from a nearly perfect box in the case of scow barges to a needle-sharp surface of revolution in the case of a racing multihull sailboat. The shape is chosen to strike a balance between cost, hydrostatic considerations (accommodation, load carrying, and stability), hydrodynamics (speed, power requirements, and motion and behavior in a seaway) and special considerations for the ship's role, such as the rounded bow of an icebreaker or the flat bottom of a landing craft. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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