A short film I was asked to produce for the Royal Yacht Association about cruising in a dinghy. Much of it was filmed during a lockdown for Covid19 in France, so the original footage was created in the harbour where I live.

INTERESTED IN DINGHY CRUISING?
Read my book, the Dinghy Cruising Companion:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/DinghyCruis...
And join the Dinghy Cruising Association:
http://dinghycruising.org.uk/

AVEL DRO
Do you want a boat like mine?
Avel Dro is an Ilur designed by François Vivier, and built of clinker plywood by Les Charpentiers Reunis of Cancale in 1994. The design is based closely on the traditional inshore fishing boats of Brittany in the early years of the twentieth century, hence her single boomless lugsail rig and lack of a mainsheet horse, (sometimes controversial among my viewers). Although rare in Britain, Ilurs are relatively common in France. The name Avel Dro is Breton, and means a shifting wind.
Length 4.44 m
Sail area 12.2 m²
Beam 1.70 m
Draught 0.25 / 0.86 m
Design category C3
François Vivier's website (in English):
http://www.vivierboats.com/en/
Similar dinghies can often be found for sale in the French magazine le ChasseMarée:
https://www.chassemaree.com/revue/
Or try Le Bon Coin, (where you can buy anything in France):
https://www.leboncoin.fr

MUSIC
"Spanish Ladies" from Epidemic Sound