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Registration number
1846
Status
Registered
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Details
Function
Leisure Craft
Subfunction
Yacht
Location
Henley-on-Thames
Vessel type
Racing Yacht
Current use
Museum based
Available to hire
No
Available for excursions
No
Web address
www.rrm.co.uk
Construction
Builder
Davies & King, Stephen & Isaac, Oxford
Built in
1828
Hull material
Wood
Rig
None
Number of decks
1
Propulsion
Manpower
Primary engine type
None
Boiler type
None
Boilermaker
None
Dimensions
Breadth: Beam
4.26 feet
(1.30m)
Length: Overall
46.89 feet
(14.30m)
History
The OXFORD 1829 BOAT is a racing eight rowing boat, built in 1828 by Stephen Davies & Isaac King of Oxford. The hull is clinker built of spruce on oak and ash frames. The boat took part in the first University Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities, held in 1829 over a course in Henley-on-Thames. The Oxford crew borrowed it from Balliol College for the occasion. The vessel illustrates first steps in the evolution of boats designed for racing, being almost twice as long and half as wide as an equivalent sea-going boat of this era.
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