Key details
- Current boat name
- Peter Duck
- Boat class
- 7356
- Sail number
- 166968
- Number
- 9
- Function
- Sports and Leisure
- Type
Dimensions and specifications
- Length (m / ft)
- 8.66 / 28ft 5in
- Beam (m / ft)
- 2.67 / 8ft 9in
- Leeward
- Keel - long
- Masts
- 2 Wood
- Rig type
- Bermudan Ketch
- Propulsion
- Sail/engine
Design and build
- Designer
- Laurent Giles J
- Date of build
- 1946
- Place of build
- Pin Mill
Current status
History
Designed by Laurent Giles and built in 1946 by H King & Sons for Arthur Ransome. He disliked her and called her a 'marine bath-chair for my old age'. She has had a g Palmer and is wife who sailed her aound Britain and across to Russia. A peter Duck class has evolved in reponse to the demand fo a reliable motor -sailer. The class design is 3in longer and 4in depper than the original. It has been built by Porter and Haylett at Wroxham.Owner D O' Brien port Ipswich LYR 53 - see article in Classic Boat 2005 August page 77 January 2011 (Picture courtesy of Classic Boat)