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Try Again is a very rare Guernsey oyster fishing boat with an interesting history.
According to Guernsey Museum records, Try Again was built in Guernsey in 1861 by one George Le Maitre. In 1876 she was lengthened from 23 to 30 feet and rigged as a schooner.
At the end of the 19th century, she disappears from the Guernsey Register and is recorded in the Jersey register of shipping as being rebuilt by Philip Carrel in Gorey in 1906, rigged as a gaff cutter, and owned by a Captain Charles Maingay Robin.
On the 20th June 1933, under Captain Robin, three friends and a boatman, Try Again struck rocks in the Ecrehous and sank. She was raised with barrels, patched up and towed to Gorey in a terrible state.
Yet by August 1933, Try Again was repaired and raced in the local regatta. (Clearly Captain Robin was not one to hang about.)
In 1936 Captain Robin died and ownership changed to a Mr Richardson, who used Try Again for regatta racing and family cruising until the occupation of Jersey in WW2. She sustained some damage during the German occupation, and as a result in 1953 she was yet again rebuilt in Gorey under war reparations, largely as you see her now.
Try Again had a brief spell as a houseboat in Lymington in 1962 before being purchased by Graham Poole. She was brought to Woodbridge in 1963, where she has since remained, in the same family ownership.
That she has survived is proof of her exceptionally strong build. She has benefitted from constant loving attention and investment of time and money between 1963 and the present. The most recent renovations (4 years ago - see description for full details) were a new engine, new WC, complete professional rewiring to modern standards, and a renovated cockpit.
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