Month: June 2007

Cooke on roller headsails and sailing dinghies

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Chapter XVII: ‘Unfortunately Captain de Boulay did not patent his invention and in consequence anyone is at liberty to make the rolling gear. Almost any shipwright will supply it to order, but they do not always fit it correctly.’

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Chapter XVIII: ‘The sail came over with great force but with the boom end hitting the water as I anticipated, all was well.’

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Seamanship for Yachtsmen Chapter headings:

Chapter I Introduction
Chapter II Small Cruising Yachts
Chapter III Getting under Way
Chapter IV Getting under Way (continued)
Chapter V Seamanship under Way
Chapter VI Seamanship under Way (continued) Continue reading “Cooke on roller headsails and sailing dinghies”

Mud, fabulous, glorious, thick gloopy mud

Mud

Mud

Just in case the rest of the world isn’t quite clear why yachties on the English East Coast talk so much about mud, I though I would show you this photo taken by Julie. Like a certain sort of film star, it has a kind of sullen, pouting beauty all of its own, don’t you think?

And of course it’s difficult not to think of the Flanders & Swann song about the hippopotamus:

‘Mud, mud, glorious mud
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood’ 

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More pics of Chris Perkins’ Oughtred Macgregor canoe

Chris Perkins’ Macgregor

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Chris Perkins’ Macgregor; photos courtesy of Chris

The world has some very kind people in it, thankfully, and one of them is Chris Perkins, builder of the Iain Oughtred canoe featured by intheboatshed.net a few days ago.

The story goes like this. I accidentally lost almost all of the 480 photos I took at the recent Beale Park Boat Show after a backup failed to work properly, and so I appealed for some replacements – and Macgregor canoe builder Chris Perkins was kind enough to supply me with some of his. Naturally, I’m hugely grateful. Thanks Chris.

In the circumstances, I thought I should begin with some Continue reading “More pics of Chris Perkins’ Oughtred Macgregor canoe”