Ballerina
Review Date : Thu, 24 Sep 2009
Author : Yachting Monthly
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Ballerina - job for pottering around inshore waters
Dating from the mid-sixties, the MkII Ballerina was one of the earliest glassfibre production boats. Based on an earlier moulded plywood design by Robert Tucker, the Ballerina is a pretty, 6.50m (21ft), bilge-keeled weekender with a modest, unchallenging rig and good stability.
She's just the job for pottering around inshore waters with young children and even well preserved ones can be picked up for under £3,000. They were built by various companies, including Penryn Boatbuilding in Cornwall, and a lot were home-completed to varying standards.
They had three or four berths in a camping-style interior and, while most were outboard-powered, an inboard engine option was available. Headroom was limited to 1.32m (4ft 1in).
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November 18 16:13
Roy Wallis
We had a wodden Ballerina in the early 1980s, initially berthed at Lymington but latter moored near Rockley in Poole Harbour. She gave us lots of enjoyment particularly as our dog kept on fallig overboard.
She had an Albin single cylinder inboard which was a great hellp at times when fighting against the tide near the chain ferry at the harbour entrance