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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This story from Bob Telford’s youth found at the Lower Halstow YC site makes me smile. I hope you will too, though you may need to try to speak the difficult bits out loud to understand them!
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Thorne Luckhardt’s Chamberlain dory skiff
Read all about Thorne’s Luckhardt’s Chamberlain dory skiff restoration here – and also about his latest project, an interpretation of the John Gardner version of the fast Herreshoff-designed rowing boat built in riveted clinker ply. It’s amazing what you can find on Craig’s List!
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Ben Crawshaw’s having fun chasing maximum speeds with his GPS
While we’re living with the wettest and windiest winter weather I can remember, Ben Crawshaw has dressed up warm and is having a riot sailing and rowing his Light Trow down in Spain. One thing that’s driven him on lately is using a GPS, which has led to some astonishing maximum speeds and to the discovery that sheeting in both sails and using his rudder gets the best possible speed from his boat.
Of course I’m hugely impressed by the speeds he’s logging. In reality I suspect some of these are peaks due to currents, wave action and the odd GPS artifact, but there seems to be every reason for thinking the boat is performing pretty well nevertheless.
For more on the Light Trow, click here.
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