Gavin Atkin's weblog for the sort of people who like looking inside boat sheds. It's about old boats, traditional boats, boat building, restoration, the sea and the North Kent Coast
Barges and wherries and other working boats originally for carrying cargoes
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Welcome to Intheboatshed.net!
If you can’t immediately see what you came here for, try:
â—The lists of topics and archives in the right-hand column
â—The search window at the top-right of this page
I’m sure both of them will take you straight to it, and more, but if you’re still stuck, please write to me at gmatkin@gmail.com .
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Here’s something delicious for those of you who love to see great draftsmanship. And I do mean great – some of the work here is enough to pin back a fella’s eyelids and make him dribble.
This is Frederik Henrik AF Chapman’s Architectura Navalis. Published in 1768, it is a compendium of drawings of what Chapman, a prominent Swedish naval architect, considered to be the best and most interesting ships and boats of the time. Best of all, you can see them here:
http://www.sjohistoriska.se/
For a timeline and a list of Chapman relics, click here:
http://www.bruzelius.info/
Finally, here is one more postage-stamp sized image from the collection. I should warn you that the downloads held by the museum are in the tiff format and they’re also pretty big – you’ll need an image editor or viewer with a tiff facility to see them, and you’ll need something a little newer and with more memory than the old Windows 2000 laptop wordbox I use to view them easily.
