Category — Boat photo gallery

Photos from the USA:

Rescued by former pupils of a school in Edinburgh that had owned the boat for decades, and now awaiting restoration in the South West.

Recently released from long term storage:

Collection of photos from old posts detailing its latest move from the IOW. Uffa Fox’s writings elsewhere provide more detail:

The surviving boat from the first batch:

Beyond repair in 2014 & scrapped. Had been restored 10-15 yrs earlier.

(Transplanted so not written by me)

Once upon a time I was a young man and used to crew fireflies for my school friend who sailed in Chichester Harbour from Itchenor. Tim’s dad had a Jollyboat, J17 Allegria, and occasionally I would sail in her too.

Skip on many years, I thought it would be quite fun to get a j Jollyboat to show the Wayfarer fleet at Lydney YC a thing or too. After a few searches on the internet, a suitable boat was found and we set off to collect her, only to find out that the boat I had found was Allegria.

Unfortunately, when I got her home, I discovered that the hull and Keel were in very poor condition with very little sound wood aft of the mast step in the bottom of the boat.

It was too hard to let her go though, so she sat in a corner of the barn for several years awaiting a mammoth restoration, but eventually my head won out over my heart and she was given to another friend to celebrate her birthday in.

So Allegria was eventually taken by rum drinking pirates and wrecked…

Al

Restored in 1998/99 – the blog reproduced with permission below. Location now unknown.

Possibly the only surviving hull completed by ‘Blagdons’ in the south west. Notable for having no buoyancy tanks. Some photos from a windy Netley event:

Was sailed from Roa Island, and competed in many events too. Not heard of for a long time:

Not heard of for several decades, but was in Scotland:

Recently sailing again after the auction:

Sold 2023:

Bought as a completed boat from Fairey’s, and owned by the same family for nearly 60 yrs. They modernised the boat themselves – converted it to fully tanked (front tank & full length side tanks), and replaced the original spars.

As per the intro – this boat is in the Classic Boat Museum in Cowes:

At Bosham 2011? More recent photos in the Classic Boat Revival website gallery.

Sold on ebay 2011:

Along with other boats at the Fairey 50th anniversary regatta – J34or37, 36, 54, not been heard of for some time. J3 & 332 are known of:

Last heard of in 2011: