N2510
Name: Emma-Hoo
Design: China Doll
Designer: Phil Morrison
Year built: 1970
Build type: Professional
Builder: B. L. Rowsell
Construction: Clinker
Hull type: Single Bottom
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ntoa 06-Mar-2007 |
The life of N2510 Emma-Hoo. Design: China Doll, designed by: Phil Morrison in 1967 Original boat name: Mrs Malaprop. |
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Derek 08-Jun-2009 |
The last 7 plank Rowsell built N12. Pretty as a Merlin of the same vintage?with Sapele decks and Sycamore gunwhales. Originally built for Michael McNamara (whose wife was the daughter of Arther Oxborough of the Salver). Mike didn't have a great success in N12s that year and sold the boat to Tim Philips at Exmouth. My father bought it a few years later and sailed it with me as a rather disapointed crew at Plymouth and Falmouth ('75 and '76) since I had club sailed it all year. We eventually sold it to someone in Topsham at a time when Tim and Jane Bass were sailing N12s there. I saw it there briefly on one accasion and the underside looked as though it has been sprayed with celulose - the resulting orangepeeling of my years of 400 grade wet and dry?and two-potting was saddening. No idea where she went after about 1980. |
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John Murrell (Guest) 09-Jun-2009 |
Sorry Derek, I beg to differ!!! I believe that Emma Hoo was the penultimate China Doll professionally built by Brian Rowsell - N2632 has the honour of being the final Twelve he built. There were also two more hulls that?were planked?up in Camperdown Terrace?and these were 'home' finished - 2700 and 2805. |
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