JONNY NANCE ST IVES, CORNWALL Reviving scullying with a new St Ives punt
A new St Ives punt for the St Ives Jumbo Association is taking shape in Jonny Nance’s Devon workshop. Formerly used for landing fi sh in tidal harbours, these stout boats can carry big loads in shallow water, making them ideal as tenders to the Association’s Jumbos (CB237). Although only 13ft (4m) LOA, there’s plenty of room to safely ‘scully’ (scull) eight adults to the moorings in the middle of the harbour. Jonny has used lines taken from a typical example by his father
Dicon in 1975 (Chatham Directory of Inshore Craft, p171). Punts were then plentiful but none remain today. They had thole pins for
Above: The punt’s heyday in St Ives and (right) the new incarnation
rowing in open water, but in crowded harbours they were ‘scullied’. Mastering this technique was a rite of passage for any St Ives boy until the 1970s, but it has suff ered the same fate as the punts. In a joint initiative with the Harbour Master, the St Ives Jumbo Association has organised surprisingly popular ‘Scully Days’ in St Ives harbour to encourage people to learn. “We’re not turning the clock back for the sake of it, but fi nding new uses for traditional craft: the Jumbo makes an ideal one-design; the punt is an ideal tender and scullying is still the most practical way of propelling them,” says Jonny.
WALES
Nobby that went up a mountain
Albion, one of the best known and most storied nobbies, is to be restored. Built by William Crossfi eld in 1906 to fi sh Morecambe Bay, she was rebuilt in the 1990s and won her class racing in 1994 and 1996-98. By 2011, beached against the wall at Conwy, there was “nothing down for her” in Mersey slang, until her plight came to the attention of Denbigh GP Paul Smith, who has taken her to his farmhouse workshop in the Welsh hills to start a restoration.
The last stage of the move used a 5.3-tonne tractor and close-coupled farm trailer, the only combination deemed by Sealand Boat Deliveries to be capable of taking the 12-tonne, 34ft (10.4m) boat up the steep, twisting lanes to Derwen. Clearance at times was as little as 80mm. Now, her second restoration and second century will begin. Andrew Rosthorn
CROATIA A faster dreamboat
Above: Tight clearance for Albion
The fi rst Power 39 has started its build at the Enavigo boatyard in Virovitica. At 39ft (11.9m) long and weighing in at 8 tonnes, the Tad Roberts design is an adaptation of a Pacifi c Northwest cruiser, commonly known as ‘dreamboats’ in their day, and typically capable of around eight knots. This new semi-displacement version has a design top speed of double that, and with her single Yanmar diesel will cruise for 630 miles at 14 knots before needing a refi ll. On a 2007 visit to the yard, CB was very impressed with the meticulous quality control – it does, after all, belong to an engineer.
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HERBERT LANYON COLLECTION, DICON NANCE
MARK CHAPMAN (DRIVER, SEALAND)
C/O ENAVIGO
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