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BBA students launch an 18ft Paul Gartside-designed cutter

     Photos by Andy Blundy, Charlie Couture and Emma Brice This 18ft Paul Gartside-designed strip-planked cutter belonging to Boat Building Academy student Dominik Gschwind hit the water at the BBA’s student launch just before Christmas. The boat is in … Continue reading

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BBA students launch their boats on the 5th December – and you are invited

  Readers are invited to join Boat Building Academy students and staff at 10am on the 5th December to see this year’s class of 18 students who have completed the 38-week course launch their boats into the water at Lyme … Continue reading

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BBA student class of September 2011 launch their boats despite wind and rain

Principal Yvonne Green has kindly sent over this photo from the latest Boat Building Academy student launch day, at which the rain clearly failed to stop play. Here’s what she says: ‘It rained, and rained, and rained, and then at … Continue reading

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