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Traditional Charter have
built this Royal Navy Revenue Cutter type yacht for
film and television, cruising and private and
corporate charter. Black Rose is the resurrected
reality of an extinct breed of traditional sailing
boat, a shape last seen around 1850. Her lines
belong to the era of Nelson, where such craft
served equally as Revenuemen, Smugglers, Naval
Servicemen then Fishermen.
Black Rose is a wooden
boat of traditional smack style at 50 feet (15
metres), 37 tons, with traditional rigging - her
interior has been made more amenable for guests
where corporate dining facilities have been arranged
in comfortable Victorian yacht surroundings and style. Click
images to see interior:
Since her official launch under
the red ensign of the merchant and fishing fleet,
where her owner and master served his thirty-year
apprenticeship, she made her maiden voyage under
the white ensign. This honour was to serve as
guardship to HMS Wildfire's commemoration. Following
this, Black Rose
appeared in a television programme about the traditional
sailing vessels and surroundings of the Blackwater
estuary.
In this way she has followed
in the footsteps of her older, smaller sister
the Maldon oyster smack "Ostrea Rose",
who plied her trade for twenty years between Great
Yarmouth and Dover and onward up to Tower Bridge
in London. During this time, the oyster smack
"Ostrea Rose" featured in many television
programmes and appeared as subject matter in calendars,
as well as being the basis of three books written
by her skipper.
Black Rose has raced
amongst 1700 vessels at the Round the Island Race on several occasions,
thus showing the colours at Cowes, Gosport and
Portsmouth.
Based in Maldon on the River
Blackwater, Black Rose sails the East Coast and
its rivers, between Southwold and London, and
the South Coast of the UK. She is available for
group bookings, corporate yacht charter and private
sailing holidays.
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