Olive Page

Hi everybody

Olive Page is our Colvic Watson motor-sailor. She is unusual in that she has a gaff rig sail arrangement. This is usually regarded as being old fashioned but in a boat like Olive it has a number of advantages.

It is a simple low tech low stress rig. The masts and spars are made of wood so that in the unlikely event of a spar being broken a piece of tree and a power plane will soon create a replacement.

Olives other strong points are her accommodation and her lovely big 6 cylinder Perkins diesel engine.

Because we sail out of the river Tyne we need to be able to keep warm and Olive has a wonderful solid fuel stove in the saloon which keeps the whole boat warm so we can sail in comfort all year round.

OLIVE PAGE