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For many readers, this chapter is the big one as it focuses on the celebrated Rob Roy canoe. Despite the authors’ efforts to boost the chapter’s contents, I’m not at all sure many people could confidently build a Rob Roy from these drawings and descriptions, but they’re certainly interesting.
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Oare Creek
We were working on the boat yesterday and sailing today, so we’re much too tired to put up a post. I’ll put some more pages of Practical Boat Building for Amateurs tomorrow, but for now here’s a photo I took as dusk approached at Oare Creek yesterday evening. I can’t help being a romantic, I’m afraid, and loved the evening light.
They say that every picture tells a story; I gather that the live-aboard boat on the bank at the right got stuck there a few tides back and is waiting for the next springs.
Practical Boat Building for Amateurs – Chapter 4, in which the authors explain how to build a clench- or clinker-built skiff.
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