Would any (probably UK) contributor have any information about the
boatyard in the subject line ?
Location : Norfolk Broads, UK
Timescale : 1950s and later
It was that of my father, H.O. Allen, known as Tim. He designed and
built small, plywood hard chine craft - mainly sailing. Though pipped
at the post commercially by Jack Holt's Enterprise, and , later, by
Barry Bucknell's Mirror dinghy, he nevertheless developed and built innovative and successful boats including an early catamaran, a
tunnel-hull scow (pipped again by the Fireball), and many very nice
dinghy designs. One tailor made boat was equipped with a wishbone boom
before anybody thought of windsurfing. Hero was Uffa Fox.
Other achievements included a super lightweight hydroplane and some
American inspired outboard runabouts with which a team won the Poole
harbour 100 mile race in 1952/3 ?- I was 6 at the time...
About 20 years ago his final designs and models experimented with
hydrofoils on trimarans (before Tabarly) and the last balsa model he
built - which I mocked at the time ! - was a hard chine spitting image
of the latest Vendee Globe type monohull planing racers !
If he had had access to modern materials.....
If any of this rings a bell, please reply to the NG or Email me
direct.
Thanks in advance. I look forward to hearing from you
Andrew Allen
Pornichet
France
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