Following a successful inaugural event this summer, the Cape Cutter 19 Association is pleased to announce the 2015 event, to be held on the River Orwell over Whitsun week, from Saturday 23rd to Sunday 31st May. The fleet will base itself at Suffolk Yacht Harbour on the River Orwell, from which there is easy access … Read more
Fight for Sight on Theo’s Future Colonel Mike Brooke has published an account of his voyage around Great Britain in a Cape Cutter 19 to raise money for Moorfields Hospital and the UCL Institute of Opthalmology to research gene therapy to combat congenital blindness, which has affected his godson among thousands of others. The proceeds … Read more
Some of our most active owners blog about their travels and modifications. If you like to keep abreast of the latest news, before it gets to this class association website, you should follow each of the following blogs. All of the blogs so far are using WordPress, which, when coupled with a smart phone like … Read more
There are new and pre-owned Cape Cutter 19’s for sale at Honnor Marine in Rochdale, UK. Call +44 (0)1706 715986 mobile: +44 (0)7966 518536 and ask for Bob Brown.
The Cape Cutter 19 has turned out to be the perfect boat for our family, although it took us some time to discover it. We’d met someone with a Drascombe longboat, who took us for a sail in it. We were immediately struck by shallow draught, stability and large amount of space (especially compared to … Read more
I’m mainly a lake sailor. My introduction to sailing was (mainly) Drascombe based. I had a friend with a Lugger who trail sailed it, that was about 30 years ago. Fifteen years ago we acquired a new neighbour who had a Hunter Medina and took me sailing in it. He quickly changed that for a Drascombe Coaster, in which … Read more
