A wise man once said...Ships are safe in the harbor, but that's not what they're built for. A metaphor perhaps for a life well lived.

I love boat yard. It was fantastic just great enthusiasm one of the best shows that was produced I couldn’t get enough of them.

20 year's later, Simon is still restoring her and moved "Keryl" to Lymington this year and as dedicated as ever to restore her to a high standard 👍.

Perhaps you could give some detail as to how the gaff rig came to be the standard. Thanks.

In the world of transport time was always money. In her lifetime, other things being equal, a faster ship will carry more cargo than her slower sister. Wages and amortisation costs are tied to the clock while income is related to speed.

Peter Mullins researched this bit of history and I understood she was a French prize under command of a lt in the navy who impressed the king. in Windsor who promoted him on the spot. There is a plate in the Blue Anchor Fradon where the stage stopped on route to London.

I wonder if the expression, in a Pickle, has anything to do with an arduous experience as recited here in HMS Pickle

Wooden boats are great. We are busy restoring Heron dinghies in Australia, but still Jack Holt's basic design. In addition, we have an order book for Rainbow Scows and Scow Moths. All built in wood. At least 25 wooden boats sailing at our club, almost as many as the plastic craft. It keeps sailing affordable and teaches really important skills, the use of tools, team work and responsibility to the group. Not to mention a smattering of science etc. Wonderful stuff! Keep up the good work.

i love the photos of the ex-German ship by the ship Finish on the grain trade from Australia 1930

Très beau navire allons nous le voir un jour sûr lès côté du nouveau Brunswick où dû Canada

Sail will be back.

Superb!

"Free to trade around the world..." And free to trade in racial chauvinism, military power and imperial colonialism, setting the stage for the warlike and repressive centuries to come.

Love it.

this makes my hart glow.

What a beauty!

There is one on show on a round about in shoreham, West Sussex.

my step dad owns pickle btw guys

Dill?

Todays 80 milion nation history wieved by only 37k in 4 years...

The Pickle is a truly lovely ship.

That aint a 8 more like 5-6 😅

Thoroughly enjoyed this little bit of navel history. Many thanks for making it so interesting.👍

The British Victory at the battle of Trafalgar changed WORLD history forever. Some battles don't, this one did.

And now we cannot even stop a rubber dinghy crossing the Channel! God help us.

Pickle was built in Bermuda.

1:35 "...thrashed the forces of France and Spain..." Words that are music to the ears of all true Britons, even two and a quarter centuries later.

In the late 1960s, LCVPs were still being used by both the US Navy and US Coast Guard. I served aboard the Eastwind, a Coast Guard Ice Breaker, and we had 4 LCVPs that were the ship's work boats. Every US Ice Breaker carried 4 of these boats. The boats sat in cradles on the deck in pairs with one boat on top of the other.

A man who's been at sea should not be calling a ship like that a boat.

Now I know the full story in detail! A small accomplishment of a sort.

Pickle to my eyes us a perfect example of a Baltimore Clipper (which was really a schooner but also the starting point of the clipper hull). Looking at Pickle, giver her about 8° lmore rake and she could pass for Lynx.

4:52 What's the origin of the expression "off the dogger"?

Is this the full episode? 16 minutes only? I thought the episode was 30 minutes long.

Is this the full episode? 16 minutes only? I thought the episode was 30 minutes long.

Is this the full episode? 16 minutes only? I thought the episode was 30 minutes long.

Is this the full episode - 16 minutes long?

My great grand uncle, William Stoba, built Kindly Light at Armours in Fleetwood.

all the steel has to be replaced with bronze to avoid future rust, and three months will turn into three years, is my guess !!!

I recall reading somewhere that Higgins bought a whole year's worth of ply form somewhere in 1939 or 40 knowing that his boat was the only solution and he was going to built them. Confidence, arrogance, who knows, but what a man.

5.54 Robin Williams 😅

the master (captain) always stays responsable for the ship the pilot has an advisory function only

Toms enthusiasm has got us hooked on the pilot cutter and the gaff in general, so much so we've just bought our first little gaff sailer.

I love working on boats, I've so far spent my summer rebuilding a 1950s Dutch tugboat, it's riveted steel, needed a new keel plate, engine overhaul, stern gear and propeller replacement and the gearbox rebuilding. Got about two months left on it!

It might not have "effortless power" with 6000 lbs of men and equipment and sitting much lower in the water. I think the host might have got a false impression of how light and nimble it is running it empty. But I guess it had enough to do the job.

Pilot kotters❤hoef ik niets meer over te zeggen 😊.

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Le Phoenix est désormais sous pavillon français !

You should watch Ship Happens,they have been doing the ribs in there wooden boat

The Courtney's of Stehekin had one to bring horses and hay to their ranch.

Safe on the seas unless you're american getting picked off and pressed into the navy, lol