Wooden Drascombe

Name: 'Tumult'

Type: One-off

Builder: John Watkinson

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Owner: Neil Colquhoun

Quote from Tim Colville on the Drascombe Association Forum:-

"Your last message about the Peter boats makes me wonder about "Tumult". Now belonging to my brother in law. She was designed and built originally, I've been given to understand, for Dick Watkinson to sail in the ?1964 OSTAR? She is about 23ft in length with a plywood lapstrake hull, similar in form but deeper than the Longboat , drawn out to a counter stern. She has a flush deck with a proper cold moulded laminated rounded deckhouse and a small self draining cockpit. She has a fixed bulb keel and a skeg mounted rudder. Certainly no trailer sailer. She has a single aluminium mast supporting a masthead cutter rig. From a distance ( mast aside) she is very much a Drascombe. But she did take part in the ?1974? Azores and back race....before the minimum size rule was put in place.. For an elderly lady she is still in quite sound condition, and gives a deal of pleasure to my nephews and others who cruise and sometimes compete ( ! ) along the West Coast of Scotland aboard her each summer. Did you build her for Dick Watkinson.? Is there anyone who can supply any more precise history about her?"

Quote from Doug Elliott on the Drascombe Association Forum:-

"Tumult was built by John Watkinson, I think at Drascombe Barton when he lived there, She was a one off design built for his brother Dick and she was indeed sailed in the Azores and back race by one of her owners who was a dentist, Dick actually sold her and bought her back some years later. I think I am correct in saying that she originally had a lifting keel, but am not 100% certain. ... She was a one off design and certainly bears the Drascombe stamp about her and as an experimental one off design she worked and performed well as quite a fast boat."

Quote from Jane Kerr:- "John also carried out a refit of "Tumult", the yacht designed by John Watkinson for his brother, Dick"

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Last updated: 5 December, 2007

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