My Classic Boat. Twister 1972

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] basically the bunks have a narrow deliberately because see you don't want a wide bunk because you'll roll around it too much also the storage behind them here so this storage does it make some slightly error and something that makes it a very comfortable see birth just know that if it's very rough you do the third brother couple cushions three cuz I'm going to hit this even back I'm six foot four when I fit in very comforting dude I'll show you if you like please do I take my shoe so phone this is you wouldn't normally go to bury your shoes on no even if you go to bed at sea always take your choice yourself you've got something what's on okay how Steven bang up own extremely comfortable here this is the skipper's bunk because it's on the portside hope to answer attack you are very comfortable Peter what's so special about this twister well this test I failed this test at all her life she was my father's before mine it's just built in the back garden house where I was brought up as a kid from about 11 to about 22 and after my father stopped sailing care couldn't save any longer I bought it from him and I've been sending her ever since so if it goes there it goes there because it always has gone there I have changed she has been updated but she's a lovely boat I enjoy sailing her and its history you know it's pretty rare to be able say I've sailed about a life so we're talking over 40 years old about 45 years yes it's a her birth was a bit sad protracted because she was built in the back garden is she born when the hull arrives in the back garden or when the hull finally goes in the water but when she's finally finished so it's a bit of a it's about a three-year build project for my father and my brother who did most of the work and I was away at university of some of the time I did the little bits I put the engine in and the wiring but all the woodwork and cabin top all that was done by my brother and my father the vision of labour was that my father did the inside of the joinery bits inside and my brother he was probably more capable the to did the outside which was the cabin top put on the glass fibre hull and deck that had been bought on timers and she was built in the middle of Middlesex yes it ended up in the Caribbean yes my father when he retired finally decided that the books it wasn't exciting enough for him quite not why I don't know because he just disgusts the midnight summer of their occasion in the parties that go on so when he was 72 he ran away to sea and took the boat of the Caribbean he sailed the gently down to Portugal I joined him out in Bayona in Spain in the Rios we had a week together he then went on to Tenerife and then from Tenerife he and another chap sailed the boat down to the Cape Verde Islands and then across to prickly pay and Grenada 22 days it took them I then joined my father out in the Caribbean because he was out there for six years as a dutiful son he had to go and see the boat and between us we sell the boat between Antigua and drug and tear them to Baker people our own twist has loved their boats and number of people got twisters have had them for many years and have lavished money on them when she came back from the Caribbean she was in a sad way and one things we could have done is just on the minimum amount and just sailed her as a boat but I had some money at the time when we decided to do it properly so we painted the how we have the cabin that so the copper was professionally rebuilt by the elephant boneyard Nixon job we have our epoxied and we did a lot of work on that we paid for bought new sails so we spent about enough money if my wife sees us could be in trouble between us probably been cheaper to take a taxi around the world and if you wanted to sail around the world but it was money well spent it's nice a long time the hopefully this boat will pass on to somebody else in good condition is it just the emotional attachment that you've got with this boat is why you've kept her for so long do portraits that certainly know but also it's a very pretty boat and to be nice when you go into a harbor people say that's a nice boat it's also because the boat sails incredibly well which is very easy for one person to sail very safe but I'm sailing to windward in most conditions can actually Lester hell I did say the other day and quite comfortably for she hoped the same course for about three hours something like that without me touching her in seas in the channel City Wing is what's needed if a wind is very variable Russian helm doesn't work so well but otherwise to sell herself tell me about the twisters systems designed by Chuck cope with Kim Holman was a very famous designer he only liked making pretty boats and that was very important to him it was asked to make a particular boat which he did he called it - it was called the twister of mercy and when they first launched her she looked good but didn't realize exactly what they had until they raced her and she started to win races like every race she entered near enough and in that particular time in late 60 seventies the twister with a long keel 28 foot six five foot six draft a narrow being eight foot being quite a small rig compared the size of hell somehow that small rig quite large helped sailed incredibly well and they cleaned up in races there was a famous occasion in the North Sea race where you race across the North Sea from England to Holland reached about 100 miles where the twisters annoyed the race officers by arriving with the class ahead of them and confusing the results was not good the this bonier Allies had a success there was several built that cleaned up one particular called cheetah came down to cows weak from the East Coast and as they said when they came back we mama lies them because everything she entered she won and nobody thought in cows with and there was a rivalry between the south and east at that time nobody thought an East Coast boat could death win and twisters became very successful until the more modern fin and skate boat was developed which frankly was faster in many conditions I still like the twister because Fitness gigs are much harder to send the heavy weather much harder work to sail because you have to work harder to helm and I'm just quite comfortable the long keel boat they will steadily not put on but sail on nicely okay the first twisters were built in wood and roughly speaking about 30 would be would in the UK and elsewhere to a bill to Japan for instance one was at least bill for my cruisers and several will be built in Australia and New Zealand somewhat professionally built those ones the first mention have been others for Emmett's are built people either buying the plans from Kim Holman or as happened in some cases we believe copying the plans without paying the royalty but they were all welcome now to the twist a class Association because in every twister is a twister where whatever the parentage the twister was then developed into a glass fiber hull it was always the intention if the boat was successful as it was be to built a glass fiber closer at crews eraser and a number of glass fiber house were built originated was a hull and deck and the designer and the zionists brother and a boat yard and they put a wooden cabin top himself because making the mold for the captain top and the cockpit was quite quite expensive certainly because it success at the boat a further batch of boats quite a number were built with a fully glass fiber cockpit and cabin top approximately 90 were built like that approximately 30 or so hulls not quite sure exactly again but 30 holes were built whereby owners people like my father bought the hull or the Holland deck and fitted out inside the bird so of all over all they're about 230 twisters all over the world but there's certainly one in California and we recently had a new member to the Association for twister class Association kazarina which was really new of his plans were sold to a man in Australia many years ago and she's a lovely little wooden boat when we first came down below you said oh I'm going to sit there because that's where my father sits at is that father still a big part of this boat for you my father's obviously dead he's been dead for so many years I was 18 years but in one way still alive because you know he went that he made this he's certain things I do on the boat on influence of my father like my father was a and by keeping things clean and tidy in all kinds this boats got a number of lockers because everything had to be put away out of sight clean and tidy fabulous else I'm head on this vote was I was coming back last year from Cherbourg to Weymouth the sea was flat which is quite important but suddenly the wind came up and I managed to get this boat going between six and a half and seven knots into a Emeth for five hours I could that was a fantastic sail I have proof I took that graph of the dials but that's the sort of thing a long keel boat kender under control that would be hard to do that in a modern boat on your own [Music]

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Length: 10min 49sec (649 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 14 2018