OLD CHAP yacht

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OLD CHAP yacht

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Jan 11, 2017 10:19 pm

Built as an 8m class wooden sailing cutter under yard No 559 by Fife & Son, Fairle at Fairle for Blair Cochrane. Ryde.
Tonnage 9 tm, dim. 34.9 x 7.7 x 4.8ft.
Delivered in 1908 under the name COBWEB.

1908 Represented Britain at the Summer Olympics and won gold in her class in Ryde. Isle of Wight.
1913 Owned by G.B. Brown & J. Carson, Belfast renamed CUPIDON.
1936 Owned by Prat d’Espouey, Algiers, renamed OLD CHAP.
Her fate not known.

Source: http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=7120
Monaco 1948 15f + 25 fr. Sg351, scottCB10. She is the fourth yacht on the stamp
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1948 margaret 1.jpg

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