Drascombe Coaster

Max, who owns the splendid Bursledon Blog* website, mentions in a comment to yesterday’s article about Swallow Boat’s BayCruiser 20 that he was in correspondence with Julian who owns the BayCruiser 20, ‘Daisy Grace’. Julian is keen to compare his boat with Max’s newly acquired Drascombe Coaster, and Max is looking forward to seeing Julian’s boat. I’m sure Max will do an article about their meeting, and I for one, will be interested in reading it.





Well, he has set my mind on researching the Drascombe Coaster. I was taken aback when I did a Google, because of the mass of information available on the subject of Drascombe boats. I’m not going to list them all here, because you can find a collation of their details at the Drascombe Association website.


For an in-depth description of the attributes of the Drascome Coaster, have a look at Tom Colville’s masterful presentation: http://www.drascombe-association.org.uk/coastview.htm .


As far as I can see, there are two UK distributors/builders of the Drascombe Coaster, namely Churchouse Boats and Honnor Marine. You can’t fail to be gripped by their presentations which describe the qualities of these characterful craft. When I say you will be ‘gripped’ with what you’ll see, I don’t mean in terms of website wizardry, but with the quality of the boats.





Note


Photos are by courtesy of ‘Boats and Outboards for Sale’ and they are copied from this advert which gives details of a Drascombe Coaster that has been sold: http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/view/PAA2390





Specification

LOA 21’ 9” (6.63 m)
Beam 6’ 7” (2 m)
Weight 1060 lbs (480 kg)
Sail Area 164 sq ft (15.22 sq m)


Links


*Bursledon Blog

http://bursledonblog.blogspot.com/


Drascombe by Churchouse Boats

http://www.drascombe.org.uk/drascombe%20range.htm


Honnor Marine Drascombes

http://www.honnormarine.co.uk/


Drascombe Association

http://www.drascombe-association.org.uk/index.php


Drascombe Coaster (Personal View by Tom Colville)

http://www.drascombe-association.org.uk/coastview.htm


Drascombe Coaster "Aquarius" Renovation Project

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/adrian.langford/home.htm


Specifications of some Drascombes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drascombe


Drascombe Coaster Struner @ ijsselmeer, nl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Dw_vovGy4


Drascombe NL 2008 Summer Meeting Grevelingen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoC7YnDonDw


Peter Duggan’s Website

http://www.petestack.com/gallery.html


Great Scottish Drascombe Cruise, 1995, by Peter Duggan

http://www.petestack.com/sailing/articles/greatscot.html


Boats and Outboards for Sale (Sold Coaster)

http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/view/PAA2390