Gavin Atkin's weblog for the sort of people who like looking inside boat sheds. It's about old boats, traditional boats, boat building, restoration, the sea and the North Kent Coast
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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 know – and yet he says he feels humbled by a Whitehall. If he feels humbled, I’m much worse…
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The Z4 is a pretty 24ft yacht with a hull designed on metacentric shelf theory lines by the legendary designer and ophthalmolgist Harrison Butler
•1939 Harrison Butler Z4 for sale at Dumbarton
Check Abe Books for copies of Harrison Butler’s book Cruising Yachts – Design and Performance, which describes his yacht designs:
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•31ft sail heavy and fast cruising dream boat for sale at Honfleur, France
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