![]() ![]() The Lifeboat Station Project, as it is called, began in 2015 and is likely to take five years to complete. Left to right: Lauren, Beth, Martel Fursdon, Ally, Joy The Lifeboat Station Project: 12×10 inch Ambrotype by Jack Lowe, showing five women of Clovelly RNLI Lifeboat Station, 2015. This early introduction to the lifeboat charity would become a lifelong passion, as Jack is now visiting all 237 RNLI lifeboat stations in the UK and Republic of Ireland, to photograph them using Wet Plate Collodion, a Victorian process that allows him to record stunning images on glass. Key among those memories was the time Amazon spent moored on the River Medina on the Isle of Wight, when the young Jack became entranced by the RNLI inshore lifeboats based at Cowes. J ack remembers time spent on the 114ft classic motor sailor from the mid-1970s, when his father took charge of the boat, to the late 1990s when she was sold because Stephen was emigrating to New Zealand. The 1885 steamer, the only vessel to appear in both Queen’s Pageants on the Thames, was built at the Arrow Yard in Southampton to a Dixon Kemp design of teak and pitch pine on oak frames with bronze fastenings. Jack, a photographer, spent much of his early childhood on the classic yacht Amazon which was owned first by his grandfather, Dad’s Army actor Arthur Lowe, and then his father Stephen. If you want to sail it, make the rudder bigger and understand it won't go to windward.The Lifeboat Station Project: 12x10 inch Ambrotype by Jack Lowe, showing five women of Clovelly RNLI Lifeboat Station, 2015. On this mast a sprit-sail with a very square head, so the luff and leech are short and the head and foot longer, with the leech as close to vertical as possible and no boom.Ī light 'sun deck' a couple of feet wide as was suggested above with some sort of life line. Just think of it as getting in a big orange oil drum and having someone roll it downhill for two weeks.Ī pipe from deck to keel, to socket a free-standing mast light enough to pull out and lay down on deck, so that means short and hollow like aluminum or carbon. To someone like him from XXX which is 2000 miles from salt water, this is perfectly good logic until you do it. ![]() He figured the life boat is to survive when the ship goes down so why not just start with the life boat and not worry? They were still 100 miles short of open water at the time on their journey and I always wondered how they fared in the open NW Pacific. He said the 'rocking and rolling' was excessive sometimes when ships 'went by too fast'. He found the diesel engine that it came with just fine at about 25 hp not using a lot of fuel because it was expensive, and he used large rocks for anchors because they were free. The woodsman/captain was markedly unschooled, unshorn and rustic in outlook and odor, but quite practical as a mechanic and dealt with cruising problems as he would a chainsaw or a bear. The boys always looked terrified or elated, it changed by the second, while the captain spent a great deal of time in a local saloon of disrepute. Several years ago anchored off our town for a few days was one of these enclosed lifeboats being used by a man and two young sons for their summer adventure cruise. I am by no means a boat builder or even designer, but am interested in seeing the feasibility of a design I may be interested in passing onto someone to build for me in the future, which is to take a modern fully enclosed lifeboat like the one pictured.replace the motor with a typical large diesel of your typical ocean going motor boats and also a sail design for get home and/or motor sailing. Such as the typical dreamer who posts about wanting to hit the oceans on a 10k budget, etc. I remember thinking at the time that it was a terrific idea and was a little surprised that I had not seen in before, given how many posts litter the internet boat/yacht forums from people seeking to find/build small "micro cruiser" ocean going vessels. ![]() It seemed to work perfect for what he wanted. I did a search but could not find any information on my topic, so here goes:Ī couple of years ago while searching the net about the incredible voyages of some hardy small boats I stumbled upon a page by a fellow from, I believe, Norway or some such matter who had converted an enclosed lifeboat into a sailboat. First post here.I am a former merchant mariner interested in VERY utilitarian ocean going designs. ![]()
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