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Old Naval signalling card
I’m sure cards like these hold some memories for people – it must take hours of labour to memorise all these flags, and the Semaphore.
Year: 2009
More Ninigret photos from Tiernan Roe
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Ninigret built recently by Irish boat builder Tiernan Roe. Click on the thumbnails for larger photos
These photos of the John Atkin-designed Ninigret recently built by Tiernan Roe show something of her lines developed for low power, and some nice details.
The Ninigret is an easily-driven 22ft design originally intended for fishing in the rough waters of Block Island.
Click here for earlier posts on Tiernan’s Ninigret project including building photos, and a shot of her on the water, and don’t miss Tiernan Roe’s weblog.
Thanks for the photos Tiernan!
There are more photos and articles, and some background about the Ninigret written by John Atkin at the Atkin & Co website.
William Atkin and his son John drew a great many designs over two long careers; two of William’s that have appeared at intheboatshed.net recently are the Matthews Sailer and Vintage.
If you’re developing a real interest in their work, though, the place to go is the forum Yahoogroup atkinboats.
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F B Cooke’s In Coastal Waters
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In Coastal Waters includes some stirring illustrations by C Fleming Williams
F B Cooke wrote some interesting and entertaining and evidently popular books about the pastime of yachting in the early part of the last century – click here for some earlier posts about his boats, his books and sailing.
In Tidal Waters is a collection of tales from his sailing youth in the later part of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th. I’m not entirely sure these stories should be read by anyone who might be put off sailing – but if like me you’re already hooked and there’s no escape, they’re great fun.
A few sentences from his introduction will give you some idea of what’s to come in the book, and of his very democratic views on sailing as a suitable activity for young men.
‘Those whose ideas of yachting have been derived from lounging on the deck of a large steamer at Cowes during the Regatta Week, with an obsequious steward in attendance, will probably find little to interest them in these pages, as the cruises described were for the most part carried out in what the East Coast waterman usually terms ‘little old tore-outs’. The boats were certainly inexpensive, and in some cases not even seaworthy; but in the golden days of youth all our geese are swans, and I spent in them some of the happiest days of my life. It is not by any means the man with the longest purse who gets the most fun out of yachting, and no youngster with a fancy for the sea need be deterred from taking up the sport by any mistaken ideas as to its cost. The expense will be just as he likes to make it, for it is merely a question of cutting the coat according to the cloth.’
Click here for a fine read, thanks to the Canadian Libraries Internet Archives.
My thanks to reader Paul Mullings for pointing out this gem.
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