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    An English sailor in New England



    An English sailor in New England

    Episode 2 of a series of videos about my recent visit to the USA to sail cruising dinghies, to visit boatyards and generally hang out in port towns.

    Incidentally, the Herreshoff Museum is at Bristol RI, not in Jamestown RI, and my video gets slightly out of sequence at that point. But please go see it nonetheless. It’s amazing! https://herreshoff.org

    MUSIC
    Native Land – Dream Cave
    Footprints in the Sand – Roots and Recognition featuring Melanie Bell
    – both from Epidemic Sound
    www.epidemicsound.com

    INTERESTED IN DINGHY CRUISING?
    Read my book, ‘The Dinghy Cruising Companion’ for much more information about dinghy cruising –
    and preorder my new book ‘Sailing the Shallows’ – out in November 2025, just in time for Christmas.
    www.bloomsbury.com
    And join the Dinghy Cruising Association:
    www.dinghycruising.org.uk

    AVEL DRO – my own boat.
    Avel Dro is an Ilur designed by François Vivier, and built of clinker plywood by Les Charpentiers Reunis of Cancale in 1994. I bought her in France in 2003 to import her into the UK, and more recently returned her to France again. The design is based closely on the traditional inshore fishing boats of Brittany in the early years of the twentieth century – hence her simple boom-less lugsail rig and lack of a mainsheet horse, (sometimes controversial among my viewers). Although rare in Britain, Ilurs are relatively common in France. Modern Ilurs are slightly different from mine, as they have more built in buoyancy. The name Avel Dro is Breton, Avel = wind, Dro = to turn – so it means a whirlwind.
    Length 4.44 m
    Sail area 12.2 m²
    Beam 1.70 m
    Draught 0.25 / 0.86 m

    41件のコメント

    1. @philipwright7186 on

      I've been to the US a couple of times and loved it. God knows they deserve better than their current leaders. Lovely to get a taste of small town America, such hospitable and warm people. Thanks for sharing.

    2. @juliaturney7017 on

      Come visit the San Juan (US,Wa) and Gulf Islands (Canada,BC) in the Salish Sea. Very beautiful and less developed. But we’ll make you wear a life jacket.

    8. @papajeff5486 on

      Thank you for the pleasant tour through Mystic Maine. I’ve been there on the way to watch the commissioning of a naval ship in the early ‘90’s, up in Bath, Maine. I toured the wooden boat school in Bath and got an itch I still need to scratch. Now, I’m old and live on the Little River in East Tennessee. You have reminded me of that nice trip and the itch, thank you, …from an old vet., retired in the US, foothills of the East Tennessee Smoky Mountains.

    9. @matthewfield2208 on

      I always loved Mystic Seaport Museum, spent a bunch of time there as a kid, doing sailing camp there where we were bunked on the Joseph Conrad, and got to train in the rigging of the Charles W Morgan – the Morgan is the last wooden whale ship left in the world. The whole museum is amazing with all the ship restoration work, different buildings, etc. Glad you enjoyed your visit.

    13. @wickedwestfalia on

      Roger, This is one of my favorite maritime museums, glad you were able to visit it! You were also not far from Fairhaven Ma. Where Joshua Slocum rebuilt the Spay so he could set out and sail around the world!

    19. @christopherstevenson9737 on

      ❤❤❤. Super THANKS for the Mystic Tour. This famous New England village/town was the final home of my parents. Dad built a Bolger skipjack in the backyard and sailed it in Groton & Mystic River . The wooden boat show there is tops!! Classics everywhere. Have put the Herreshoff museum on the bucket list. And made me laugh..” Atlantic from the “wrong side.” 😂..

      I’m a bit surprised you 2 didn’t have life vests on..??? Bad boys.! I doubt dinghy cruising in U.S. will ever be the level of France or AU, …. Not enough comfort for Americans.
      Looking forward to part 3.

    20. @richardboyden5553 on

      lovely video, thanks for gracing us with your presence! Hopefully your American members won't seize control of your organization! A wonderful tribute, actually, well done!

    21. @donsilsbe651 on

      Thank you for this video, Roger. Your camera work is impeccable. I loved the collection of still life shots that you knit together. They truly captured the essence of the Mystic Seaport and Herreshof Museums. You started the video at Mystic’s dinghy dock, which is a favorite place of mine. Once, I put my $15 down, and rowed as many different dinghies as I could within the hour’s rental. Thanks for bringing back that memory.

    24. @paulmiller2735 on

      It was very nice to meet you, Roger. I enjoyed our conversations, the good food, and the racing! The next time you are in town, a friend who has a 49er is looking for crew and I will put in a good word! 😉. For those looking for more information on the cool Newport Point cat boat Button Swan, the Mystic Seaport plans department has an online write up and you can view the plans.

    25. @billhayward1585 on

      Always love your show. Don't you think the Romance of the sea is a bit over done. It would have been an awful life for the people on board these sailing ships. At least the Royal Navy kept their men drunk all of the time. To deaden the unpleasant madness of the ship.

    27. @Lactuca on

      Thrilled you came to Rhode Island for your inaugural Iced Coffee, as fundamental an aspect of life here as you could probably get!

    28. @willo6848 on

      Roger, being in America and sailing on an English design Wayfarer, I was hoping to hear a bit of your impression of the Wayfarer and its abilities. Have you experienced the Wayfarer on the "right" side of the Atlantic or did you have to cross to the "wrong" side to experience one? I am a lifelong Wayfaring (stranger) sailor myself. (My diesel VW Sportwagen, 6 speed manual, has a license plate that is "Wayfarr" as it goes "way far" on a tank of fuel!! Just like a sailboat can go "way far" on one "fill up" of the sails!! 🙂 The plate also honors my love of the Wayfarer design! )

    30. @jonstivers on

      I volunteered on Sundays at the Herreshoff Marine Museum in the mid-1980s and worked with Halsey Herreshoff. At the time, I worked as a designer in the naval architecture office of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

    31. @JamesSmith-is7co on

      Another Great adventure, Sir!! So wonderful to see you enjoying the wild American hospitality and getting to see the sights! I love that you tried trail biking! I spend my weekends on bikes, in small watercraft and camping here in America. I am glad you are getting to visit our country!

    32. @TruckerOak on

      Hello from Maine! What a nice surprise to see you in the USA! Thank you for another lovely video. Enjoy your summer! 😊

    34. @rda3000 on

      I’m sorry you had iced coffee in a plastic cup pressed upon you. The situation is so bad here that in the dead of winter when one orders an espresso drink the question invariably follows., hot or iced?

    35. @tomwaite4594 on

      Fantastic, high production value, content, and edit…not to mention great audio Roger. Greetings from the now cooling For the Fall Chesapeake Bay

    36. @nickcarr5724 on

      So cool to see Roger in my wider metaphorical neighborhood (Rhode Island and Eastern Connecticut are rightfully proud of their sailing pedigree) as well as my literal neighborhood (Westerly). It's a lovely corner of the world, and we're very happy to receive visitors!

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