Aboard: LOLA: A 40' canoe-sterned ketch

摘要

There was a time when wooden boats were just boats-not treated with any special reverence or respect. Such was the case when the BBC sent a crew to film more than 100 yachts taking part in the annual Tobermory Race in Scotland in 1968. LOLA, a 40′ canoe-sterned ketch, quickly became one of the program's stars. Drawn by the amateur yacht designer J. Pain Clark and built by William King & Sons in Burnham-on-Crouch on England's eastern coast in 1925, LOLA was at that timed owned by David Rombach, "a most affable and easy-going of sailors," as described in the film. Among his spoken gems, delivered in a thick Scottish accent, was: "There's more thrill in doing six knots to windward in a yacht than there is in doing 80 miles per hour in a car."