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Gillmer’s Blue Moon being built in Turkey. Click on the photo for a larger image

Boatbuilder Cem Gür sent use these pictures of the pair of Thomas Gillmer-designed Blue Moons he and colleagues at Classic Boats Turkiye are building, together with some conceptual drawings and some photos of the early build of a 29ft Bristol Channel cutter to plans drawn up by Paul Gartside.

Cem tells me he’s expecting to be able to send photos showing more boat building progress at the end of this month.

Thanks Cem!

Classic Boat Turkiye Blue Moon internal layout

Paul Gartside Bristol Channel pilot cutter

See Cem’s website at http://www.classicboats-turkiye.com .

For more on Thomas Gillmer’s Falmouth Quay punt design Blue Moon, click here.

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It’s the LITTLE boat you’re meant to look at,
darn it! Not the BIG one!

Judging by the mail in my inbox, the boat-dreaming season is giving way to the boat-building season just a little before the buds open.

So I thought I’d pull a rabbit out of the hat - free plans for a little plywood dinghy anyone can build, but which happens to have classic proportions and an appealing, old-fashioned look. It could be built using the old-fashioned method using internal chine logs, or by stitch and glue.

It might appeal to model makers too, and in any case I’d argue that it’s always worth building a model before going the whole way to a full-sized boat.

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About the time I started to play with CAD and hull modelling software, someone - I think it was Craig O’Donnell of the Cheap Pages - kindly sent me some scans of a little sharp-bowed from a copy of the magazine Forest & Stream dating back more than a hundred years. He knew I was interested in understanding sharpies and skiffs at the time, and thought this one would catch my attention.

He was right. Not only was it a sweet boat, but I could see it making a nice early project for someone just learning to work CAD software. Click on the image below for the scan he sent me:

Forest & Stream skiff

There was just one snag.

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Shipwright in Training is one of the most informative weblogs for old boat enthusiasts to be found anywhere. In this post, our hero makes a long garboard, and explains how he does it. It’s handsome, impressive stuff.

I’ve only one quibble - while I like the thought of his advice about doing one thing at a time and can see it working in the workshop, it’s surely impossible elsewhere. I speak, of course, as a parent, freelance journalist, house-holder, event organiser, amateur cook, musician, weblogger and…