Wooden Drascombe

Name: Snave

Type: Lugger

Builder: John Watkinson

Year: 1962/63

Owner: Chris Evans

Drawing of the Mackerel Boat Conversion. It has an extra strake and the reverse plank at the transom, later to be a feature of the Lugger and other Drascombes.

Signed J.L.Watkinson, Ness Mayo.

Quote from Chris Evans

"She was originally designed and built by John Watkinson himself at his yard Kelly and Hall in Bridgend, Noss mayo, in the winter of 1962/1963. She was one of a pair, the other was built for Tony Soper the TV naturalist who bought the craft a little fame as star of a TV series about seabirds in the same year. John then sold Kelly and Hall and cruised the Med for a couple of years before returning to live at Drascombe Barton farm on Dartmoor. There he played with our original lugger to Drascombise it and out of his fiddlings came "Katherine (sic) Mary" his original lugger."

Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax,
Of cabbages and Kings,
Of "Snave" and J.L.W.,
And other Drascombey things

by Chris Evans

An article that appeared in DAN 54 (reproduced with permission of the author)

Last updated: 4 September, 2007

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