The Daily Telegraph has this nice obituary for boat and canoe designer and DIY hero Percy Blandford.
‘Percy Blandford, who has died aged 101, was at the heart of the British do-it-yourself boom in the period of austerity that followed the Second World War… his blueprints for home-built craft allowed thousands of enthusiasts, who would otherwise have been unable to afford the experience, to get out on the water.’
My thanks to Blandford fan Chuck Leinweber of Duckworks Magazine for finding this one.