Roxane & Romilly
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Romilly 31 "Tarka" Baltic Adventure
Dear Co Romilly/Roxane owners,
Phil asked me to elaborate a little on my recent Trip from Tallinn To Naissar.
I sail Romilly 31 “Tarka” (2003, Bridgend) which I…
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Brittany Romilly and Roxane
Robin Berwick’s Romilly and Marcus and Freya Pomeroy-Rowden’s Roxane both pictured here on permanent swinging moorings in Audierne, Finistere. What a lovely p…Read more ...
Romilly ePropulsion
Ed Major is using a Epropulsion Spirit plus 1.0 short shaft but has discovered that it occasionally hits the rudder in astern. Manufacturer’s website for mor…
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Mast removal
If, like me, you’ve struggled on occasions to remove the masts of a Romilly or Roxane, the following may be of interest.
With my Romilly, Serina, the combinati…
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Semaine du Golfe 2019
When arriving in the Morbihan (Little sea in Breton) by road we are told it is the most beautiful bay in the world. If not the most beautiful it is certainly…
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La Semaine du Golfe
Some years ago I read an article in Classic Boat about a sailing festival/Regatta in the Golfe du Morbihan on the southern coast of Brittany. The Golfe is in…Read more ...
Romilly in the Northern Sporades
Thomas Huber has shared his video of a cruise, sailing in his lovely wooden Romilly “Anna-Sofia” to the Northern Sporades in Greece. May 2018. You can watch a…Read more ...
Festival du Golfe
Time to make plans for a big Romilly meet up in southern Brittany May 2019 The Festival du Golfe is held in Brittany every two years, its a very big event for…Read more ...
Renovating RY3 centre plate
My wife and I bought Serina from Douglas Ritherdon in March 2012 and have had a lot of fun sailing her since then. She was built by Van Veen Jachtbouw in 2006…
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A Run Around Mull
Since becoming the proud owner of Ry9 – Corriemhor – I have been keen to use her for some coastal cruising on the West Coast of Scotland. The boat is kept on…
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Northern Sporades on Romilly
Thomas Huber has put together a wonderful short video on sailing his lovely SVP Romilly off the Northern Sporades. Thomas has used some very interesting video…Read more ...
Centreboard Spacers
In his excellent article about the 2001 Manx Traditional Boat festival David Collin mentioned a problem lowering his centreboard because his boat built by Bri…Read more ...
Romilly Force 8
Since buying our Romilly in 2010 I have read with interest various articles on this website regarding ‘Heavy Weather Sailing’. One of these makes the point th…
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Easy stepping lug rig
“ROMILLY” sailing on the river Yare, southern broads with her recent new rig, which I thought might be of interest to other Romilly owners.
The rig was set up…
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Cleaning "Riant"
Some of you may know that I’m preparing “Riant” for sale and need to give her a good old clean having had her sat on the trailer for over a year. I was given…
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Checking the centreboard pivot
Earlier this winter I asked Phil for advice regarding checking the centreboard pivot. I sail my Romilly (no 9) on the West Coast of Scotland, & I became…Read more ...
Centreboard winch
David Collin describes his investigation of the centreboard winch arrangement on his Romilly, “Speedwell”. With photographs by Alistair Gillone. With the help…Read more ...
Romilly Beaching Legs
In an earlier Article Errit Bekkering who has a lovely inboard engined Romilly that he sails on the Waddenzee needed beaching legs.
Errit was averse to drilli…
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New Halyard Arrangement
David Collin writes:
I have never found the halyard arrangement as designed to be much of a problem, but reading of the difficulties experienced by others made…
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Florida Romilly
Bernard Kerrison has sent me a few excellent photographs of his Romilly which lives on a hoist in Boca Grande on the west coast of Florida.
The image with the…
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Augustine on a run
Philippe Galland describes using his revised rig in an Old Gaffers race. More details of the rig can be found here. Booms and Romilly
Augustine (Romilly n°7) i…
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2 Men in a Boat
Two men and their small boat ‘Corriemhor’, take their first sail together from Helensburgh to Loch Linnhe, written in ‘thank you’ to the www.roxanne-romilly.c…
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Booms and Romilly
By Philippe Galland I bought Augustine, Romilly n°7, (a Dartington boat built in 1996) from a guy in Saint Malo. I usually sail single handed. I quickly discov…Read more ...
Halyard Rigging
Douglas Ritherdon has become the proud owner of a Van Veen Romilly called Serina. Which is R3, apparently the third Van Veen boat built.
Douglas and I have had…
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Stowage
David Collin has taken advantage of the fine Spring weather we are having in the UK to fit some minor stowage modifications to Speedwell the Bridgend Romilly…Read more ...
Centreboard window
On the original Bridgend Romilly there is a small, circular clear perspex window on the top of the centreboard case that allows you a view of the centreboard…Read more ...
Manx Trad Boat Festival 2001
David Collin sailed Speedwell from Kirkcudbright to the Isle of Man in July 2001 to take part in the Manx Traditional Boat Festival, this is a report of the v…
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Romilly Shirts
Concord Beheer are making Romilly rugby shirts available on their web site. Romilly Shirts Ad very kindly sent me on and although I was brought up to never look…Read more ...
Electric Drive Hybrid
Rinus Alberti very kindly sent me a set of pictures from the Hiswa show in Amsterdam. Ad Leeuwenburgh from Concord Beheer has been busy working on an electric…Read more ...
Baby Romilly
Ad from Concord Beheer sent me this picture of “ME2” a 2.45 meter dinghy for messing about in. I meant to make a page about it ages ago but sadly forgot and t…Read more ...
Hauling Out
David Collin has hauled Speedwell out for the winter and I thought that others might like to see how David tackles the process. In the background you can see…Read more ...
Scottish Romilly
David Collin has very kindly sent me some photographs of his lovely Romilly Speedwell which he mainly day sails out of Kirkcudbright in South West Scotland.
P…
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Romilly at Mountshannon
Brian J Goggin has very kindly sent me links to his pictures. Brian is not a Romilly owner but was very struck by the elegant design so much so that he took m…
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Romilly needs beaching legs
Errit Bekkering has a lovely inboard engined Romilly that he sails on the Waddenzee. As you can see from the picture he needs some beaching legs. Drawings of…
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Outboard Motor
The outboard of the Romilly is fixed into a plug which slots into an outboard well which forms a female to the male of the plug. The outboard is held in place…Read more ...
Mast turned
Oh dear I have a little problem. The mast is turning in the slot and I didn’t notice it until I got back and looked at my photographs. I will have to investig…Read more ...
Lake Marina Mooring
Not specifically a Romilly or Roxanne issue but I thought that the following was worth writing up. I have Riant moored on Lake Windermere, in the English Lake…Read more ...
Sails
When I checked over Riant’s sails I noticed that what I thought was a bolt “rope” in the luff of the sail had shrunk away at the tack by about 9 inches. I tho…Read more ...
Romilly Logo
I’ve drawn up the Romilly logo in Adobe Illustrator and I thought other owners might find it useful. I’ve provided links to files here in Illustrator 10 and A…Read more ...
Single Handed - Mast Raising
Having helped Rob Dawson step and un-step the mast I was concerned about my ability to do this on my own. I did some searching on the web and found that the F…Read more ...
Romilly launch and recovery
I have a Lizard piggyback trailer. Having never launched anything bigger than an Albacore and in the absence of any instructions on how to launch “the right w…Read more ...