A Nostalgic look back at the Pictorial history of Cygnus Vedrae

As you may have guessed, we rather love our little boat. Cygnus Vedrae was built from a 1940's design and is still going strong for a 'modern' design. Here are a few advertising pictures for her class from the late 1940's and the early 50's. I mentioned in a previous post that the first one in the class, 'Shirin', had been sold to the government of the Shah of Persia. Here is a picture of her as she was launched.

The internal layout of 'Sirin' is completely different to Cygnus, and the engine is a David Brown 25hp, rather than our 30hp Coventry Godiva.

Here is an advert for two more Wilson boats from the same period.

I would have loved ours to have had the twin engines, but hey ho.

Here is another pic where a Swan is being used to advertise boat silencers.

This particular boat is ours in all but name, everything else is identical. Good innit!!

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