Month: December 2008

Cornish monuments, wrecks and disasters, part 2


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The Queen Transport monument in the churchyard at Mylor

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The Ganges monument, also at Mylor

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Again at Mylor, a monument to 31 people who lost their lives
in a pleasure boat accident

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I think this is probably all about the Civil War

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Small chapel on a headland overlooking the Helford River

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Lush lichen growing on this church window shows how warm,
moist and clean is the air is down there!

See the first post on Cornish monuments here.

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Easy to build – get free plans for the 15ft 7in flat-bottomed Julie skiff! Click here.

Shanghaied out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P Bailey – part 2

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‘For some minutes Ben and I stared stupidly at the dark triangular dorsal fins of the sharks silently cleaving the unruffled surface of the sea.’

Two more chapters of Shanghaied out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P Bailey today: Chapter III Hungry Sharks and Chapter IV The “Old Man” Struggles With Algebra.

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Why not print these out so you can read them at your leisure?

For the rest of this series of posts:
Shanghaied out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P Bailey – part 1

Shanghaied out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P Bailey – part 2

Shanghaied out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P Bailey – part 3

Shanghaied out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P Bailey – part 4

Shanghaied out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P Bailey – part 5

Shanghaied out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P Bailey – part 6

Shanghaied out of Frisco in the Nineties by Hiram P Bailey – part 7

Fine weather and fine boats at the Boat Building Academy launch day, December 2008

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Two of the latest student boats to be launched
at the Boat Building Academy. As usual, click on
the thumbnail for a much larger image

Down at Lyme Regis, the Boat Building Academy’s Class of March 2008 had their big launch day at Lyme a few days ago – and managed to hit on a day of beautiful weather. Lucky devils… as principal Yvonne Green said, ‘One of us must have done a good deed.’

Quite so. These two shots are just a taster – there are more come, and descriptions also. Read about this year’s students and their projects here.

For more intheboatshed.net posts about the Boat Building Academy and its earlier student intakes, click here.