THE Boat for Cleek

[rbgarr]

He'd be the Cynosure of Sausalito in this beauty!

http://tinyurl.com/zs65s

;) :D ;)

[Stephen]

Might look a bit odd sitting overturned on the deck of his dream-boat:
http://www.cantierealtoadriatico.it/img/foto_barca/000085_g.jpg

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Gesus, ya aint gonna gunkhole in that puppy :eek:

What does she draw ????

[paladin]

looks to be about 9 feet or so.....

[muscongus]

Dyarchy Draft: 7' 6"
Swan boat draft: 2' webbed

[geeman]

I take it, he wont be doing much fly fishing in shallow water huh? lol

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

He'd be the Cynosure of Sausalito in this beauty!

http://tinyurl.com/zs65s

;) :D ;)

That's djswans surely?

[Bob Cleek]

LOL... I actually had one of those pedal boats for a while (without the swan head!). Dumpster diving score. It was kind of fun to lean back with a brewski and paddle around the harbor.

Ah, Dyarchy! I hadn't seen that picture of her. I hope it's the camera lense that's making her look hogged. It must be, since she's got an iron keel on her and was really heavily built. I've got the Vertue, a twenty-five foot, basically half size version. Dyarchy is the only other boat I've ever lusted after!

http://www.yalumba.co.uk/Images/Maritime%20Historian/Boats%20and%20Yachts/Dyarchy.jpg

[Stephen]

here's some more:

http://www.cantierealtoadriatico.it/img/foto_barca/000149_g.jpg


http://www.cantierealtoadriatico.it/img/foto_barca/000147_g.jpg

http://www.cantierealtoadriatico.it/img/foto_barca/000148_g.jpg

There's a few more here:
http://www.cantierealtoadriatico.it/
Quite a fancy website.

[Dick Dawson]

I've just joined the forum and found this thread. I've been sailing gaffers for years and remember Dyarchy from the '70s, when she was very active about the south coast of England. I would like to trace her current owner as I have some memorabilia which may be of interest. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Dick Dawson

[rbgarr]

Dick-

Use this contact page to write DYARCHY's 1994 restorers: http://www.cantierealtoadriatico.it/contattaci_eng.html

They may have a line on the current owners.

(P.S. Those running light lenses look massive.)

[Katherine]

Are there any interior shots of her?

[bamamick]

I wonder that more boats don't feature bulwarks like that. Seems so sensible for a cruising yacht like that.

Mickey Lake

[Dick Dawson]

rbgarr - thanks for the tip. I'd seen their web site but didn't pick up the English contact page. The running lights are about the same size as those on my (rather smaller) gaffer, and the right size for paraffin, which was their original fuel. Of course, they look much too big compared with today's miniature electric lamps.

Dick Dawson

[Jeremy Burnett]

Bob,that photo you posted of a cutter under sail,is that the first Dyarchy? It certainly isnt the Laurent Giles one.

[Katherine]

http://newimages.yachtworld.com/1/2/7/5/5/1275579_9.jpg?1158510812396

[Katherine]

http://newimages.yachtworld.com/1/2/7/5/5/1275579_10.jpg?1158536047274

[Hwyl]

Katherine, you may be coming over to the dark side.

I agree the picture is not the Laurent Giles Dyarchy, it is the first picture that comes up in a Google picture search and is referred to as being built in Lymington. I'd say the web author made a mistake.

She does look like a Bristol Channel cutter, I like the forefoot and it would have looked good on Dyarchy (II).

Someone asked about interior and the Giles Dyarchy was unconvential in that she had two comfortable arm chairs below.

An idea that designers rarely emulate, more's the pity.

[Katherine]

Arm chair, good. No double berth, bad.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Bob,that photo you posted of a cutter under sail,is that the first Dyarchy? It certainly isnt the Laurent Giles one.


To judge by an earky book by Hiscock, and by the drawings in that really excellent little book, "A Manual for Small Yachts", by RD Graham and JEH Tew, the photo in Bob Cleek's posting is indeed the first DYARCHY - a transom sterned Bristol Channel pilot cutter.

The appearance of hogging is due to the camera angle - photos of my own boat, which has a rather similar shape and bulwarks, often show the same thing. I've got one of her being named - just as the champagne bottle smashes - and she looks hogged in that!

[John B]

Aren't the arm chairs the shaped in additions to the saloon seating as opposed to seperate 'chairs'per se.?
Not that I know this .. I'm just curious.. I've looked at that accomodation plan for a number of years and wondered.
a gratutious pic of the NZ Dyarchy ,Sorceress. Taken in late jan this year, Peter likes to intimidate.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid200/p3863d6d63bcbffb54f94240022c0eb77/f05ec78f.jpg

[Wooden Boat Fittings]

Aren't the arm chairs the shaped in additions to the saloon seating as opposed to seperate 'chairs'per se.?

That's my understanding too, John. I have a photo (somewhere, in one of the seventy-odd boxes of books up in the top shed....) that I recall as showing two semi-circular seats built into the forward ends of the benches, each side of the stove on the afterside of the main saloon's forward bulkhead. Does that agree with your memory of them?

Mike

[Hwyl]

I've seen the drawings too, I thought they were semi (or a bit more) circular, but at the aft end of the settee's. I'm lucky enogh to sail some high end boats, I can only think of a handful with a comfy place to sit.

Katherine, you need to go and listen to some Bob Marely lyrics.

[John B]

This pic that Katherine posted is all I know.
http://newimages.yachtworld.com/1/2/7/5/5/1275579_9.jpg?1158510812396

Its from One of the UF blue books. Thoughts on Yachts and Yachting. I was lucky enough to come across a copy a few months ago( to add to the three others of the set I have ... I think I'm still missing one ?)