Chris Old and Chris Stone build a glued-clinker Whitehall at the Boat Building Academy

[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] As promised, Boat Building Academy principal Yvonne Green has sent us some more photos from the big student launch day at Lyme last month. This is despite being frantically busy setting up a new eight-week course onĀ  woodworking skills – the course needs a new workshop, and I gather the Academy’s short courses … Continue reading “Chris Old and Chris Stone build a glued-clinker Whitehall at the Boat Building Academy”

A Shipwright in Training is humbled by a Whitehall

[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Almost all my life, I’ve held the view that anyone who can make a real clinker-built boat that doesn’t leak must be some sort of magician, and a post on the weblog A Shipwright in Training has rather confirmed my opinion. This bloke is a real woodworker and knows ten times what I … Continue reading “A Shipwright in Training is humbled by a Whitehall”

Raid Finland in a Whitehall

Send this to interested friends: http://intheboatshed.net/?p=538 This is how to have real fun – take a boat that can row AND sail to Finland and join a Raid! Many of the other boats are traditional, the photos are very nice but take a look at the video clips because they’re even better. I bet they … Continue reading “Raid Finland in a Whitehall”