I
n both boating magazines I subscribe to was an
article by Canadian Roy Schreyer about his house
boat Dianne’s Rose. (AABB #87) The look of it was
attractive enough for me to read about a different
sort of boat – I sail a modified Hartley 16 TS – but as
I read the introduction I knew it was important! Roy
designed Dianne’s Rose for his wife Dianne. She
couldn’t handle Roy’s sailing boat as it was ‘tippy’.
Dianne’s Rose’s main feature is her stability. Her
second feature is ease of getting around in her – 6ft /
6in headroom!
My wife Jane had a similar aversion to tippy boats,
she also found as time went on that small boat cabins
become impossible to negotiate (I’m finding that
approaching on me too!)
Jane read about Dianne’s Rose and said something
along the lines of “We could do that too”.
So the journey began and I have recorded it in
previous articles in AABB.From the beginning my wife Jane
encouraged the project. It began in
October 2014.by Paul roDwellJane admiring
the model.