A Cinderella canoe adapted for rowing

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Cinderella, adapted for rowing by Martin Wellby

I can’t claim this is about any kind of traditional boat, but I think I can safely say that rowing is a traditional activity, that more people should do it and that this post is about a neat and inexpensive way of equipping yourself to do it. These photos show a very sweetly made canoe built to my Cinderella design that has been adapted in a couple of useful ways.

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On Hickling Broad

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Turf boat and thatched boathouses, Hickling

Hickling Broad is one of my favourite places, and here are some links that might help to explain why:

Aerial photo, Hickling Broad

Hickling Broad Sailing Club

Norfolk Wildlife Trust, Hickling Broad

Could one hope to hear a bittern when moored here?

A place like few others

Tour Norfolk

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A new blog: Roach’s Adventures

Design 295

My significant other Julie found a great new weblog today. Roach’s Adventures is about a refurb job being carried out on a Norman Dallimore yacht that seems to have been built to ‘design 295’.

In fact Roach bears a close resemblance to a boat that the Gweek Quay Boatyard has been restoring, and which it exhibited at the 2007 London Boat Show, which I didn’t go to this year. Still, I bet she was a sight for sore eyes for people made weary by the blizzard of white plastic and lurid sailboarding gear…

 

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