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The Drascombe Lugger is a recreational open sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wooden spars and trim. It is a Gunter rigged yawl with and a boomkin for the mizzen sail. It features a spooned raked stem, a raised transom, an internally mounted fold-up rudder controlled by a tiller and a centreboard.
1974 Drascombe Lugger "Roamer" sailing East Bay Florida. The word Drascombe is a trademark that was first registered by John Watkinson who applied it to a series of sailing boats which he designed and built in the period 1965–79 and sold in the United Kingdom (UK).
The Drascombe Lugger is a good example of this type. [9] With the mizzen sheeted to an outrigger or boomkin and a jib set on a bowsprit, the rig extends a lot horizontally. This allows the sail area to have a lower centre of pressure than, for example, a Bermudan sloop .
Photo of the mizzen sail boomkin on 1980 Drascombe Lugger Onkahye sliding gunter rig yawl. Traditional boomkins found on English sailing vessels gradually evolved from 1710 until around 1850.
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Gunter rigged Lobster 12.5. Gunter rig is a configuration of sail and spars used in sailing. It is a fore and aft sail set abaft (behind) the mast. The lower half of the luff (front) of the sail is attached to the mast, and the upper half is fastened to a spar which is approximately vertical and reaches above the top of the mast.