Avel 1896 – Star boats

2020-11-06T11:22:57+00:00May 12th, 2019|Heritage|

The clipper-bowed late Victorian period yacht Avel slips along in a St Tropez breeze with her crew in the lee scuppers and her helmsman looking like a dinghy sailor, perched on her weather rail and steering with a tiller extension. Avel was built in 1896 by Camper & Nicholsons in Gosport, England, with inch and [...]