FOSSC: YouTube - Northbound

If the share button does what it says on the tin, the following should be a YouTube playlist that a friend from my old sailing club at Frampton put together of his adventures this summer just gone. The above is a still from one of the later videos.

If share button doesn't do what it promises, then the link to the playlist is here.

Reuben's around the same age as my eldest son Ben. I remember how as a kid he'd cycle the sixteen mile round trip from Stroud to the club every Sunday to race with the rest of us in his somewhat ratty, beat up old Laser. But the age of the boat and state of its sail didn't stop him from regularly beating us.

I took the above at Frampton on one such an occasion. The photo following was in 2020, when we last crossed paths with him sailing across Falmouth Bay. His is the little boat just off the bow of the cargo ship.

About the time Ben left home for Bristol Uni, Reuben left home and the Club to move to Falmouth for a boat building apprenticeship, and there he designed and built the dinghy he sailed to Norway this summer. We'd bump in to him occasionally when we in the area with Calstar. It's a beautiful little yawl that he built, possibly the only yawl I can think of that has a spinnaker and a trapeze rigged for the helm to hike out on, the idea of which always makes me smile.

So very Reuben. Although I don't think he used it much on his most recent trip.