Jul29
Gavin Atkin
Jim Vandenbos with a well deserved special award
for bloody-mindedness in racing his sailing canoe
in a Force 5 wind
Like most sailing clubs, the club we belong to focuses strongly on racing modern boats. No doubt the racers have a lot of fun, and without them the club would have no officers to run it.
But this concentration on racing and modernity leads, as always, to great conformity, with fleets of practically identical boats. (Historians of boating say that one of the great examples of how racing leads to conformity is the development and improvement of the Thames barge through the latter half of the 19th century, by the way.)
Bewl Valley Sailing Club nevertheless has a small band of eccentrics who don’t quite fit the stereotype, either because they cruise and won’t race; choose to sail old class dinghies from the days when they were typically built from plywood; are weekend craftsmen, some of whom build their own traditional boats with great skill and care while others build in plywood and epoxy; and a very few both design and build.
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Boatbuilders and restorers, Canoes, Cruising yachts, Events, Locations, Racing sailing craft, River boats, Small boats
Jul28
Gavin Atkin
Click on the headline above before bookmarking. Click on the images below for larger, clearer pictures. For more photos from the R C Anderson’s Canoeing and Camping Adventures click here: http://intheboatshed.net/?s=anderson
Anderson by sailing canoe from Stokholm to Petersburg, pages 126 to 192: ‘Pligg was taking two cameras, one an immense arrangement, and as he intended to develop en route he wanted a good lot of gear, especially as both cameras were fitted for plates only.’
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Canoes, Cruising yachts, Culture: songs, stories, photography and art, Locations, River boats, Small boats
Jul28
Gavin Atkin
Terry Burton was tickled by Mark Shiner’s story of how everthing went wrong the day he inadvertently went sailing wearing an unnecessarily nautical Breton cap. Many thanks once again Terry!
For the full story, click here:
The curse of the Breton cap
See more of Terry’s work here: http://www.terry-burton.co.uk
Cruising yachts, Culture: songs, stories, photography and art, Techniques
Jul26
Gavin Atkin
Click on the headline above before bookmarking. Click on the images below for larger, clearer pictures. For more photos from the Beale Park Boat Show click here: http://intheboatshed.net/?s=beale
Two photos of one of Adrian Morgan’s little beauties.
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An impressive Viking invader
Adrian Morgan
See Adrian’s website: www.viking-boats.com
Some splendid Thames skiffs
The Thames Traditional Boat Society has some online plans for building a boat of this kind: http://www.ttbs.org/
A Victorian-style Thames skiff built by an apprentice at Henwood & Dean
See their website: www.henwoodanddean.co.uk
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Boatbuilders and restorers, Events, River boats, Small boats, Working boats
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