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Thole pin photographed by Ben Crawshaw
A series of posts about the traditional Spanish ilaut have appeared at Ben Crawshaw’s weblog The Invisible Workshop over the past few days. Interestingly, they’re carvel built and rather like ship’s lifeboats in shape
I was particularly struck by one post about thole pins that might interest rowers in particular. Some appear not to have been used, while others are clearly very important to the boat’s owners, yet others show a characterful kind of neglect.
Thothee tholeth pinthsare the things that they uthe to thlip thonghs on, (flipth flopths to you I expecth).
The pinths are jutht a necethethary acethethory.
Thkuthorpth
Tholed to the man in the white thuit!