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Monet’s paintings of traditional French rowing and sailing boats More photos from The Yachtsman - including a legendary actress and mistress to Royalty - racing sailing yacht Charmaine A challenge for boatbuilders: a sweet 10ft clinker-built double-ended skiff

Monet fishing boats; 100-year old racing yacht photos from The Yachtsman, and building plans for a double-ended Scottish clinker skiff

Nick Smith boats UK Home Built Boat Regatta meeting Dorma

Nick Smith’s clinker-built boats; Home Built Boat Regatta; Hillyard cruising yacht Dorma

Flying 10 Ella in Annabel Young Bristol

Uffa Fox Flying 10s at West Lancs; my daughter Ella sailing a Mirror; pilot gig Young Bristol

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A challenge for home boatbuilders: a sweet 10ft clinker-built double-ended skiff

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A challenge for boatbuilders: a sweet 10ft clinker-built double-ended skiff

This sweet 10ft clinker-built double-ended skiff looks extremely difficult to build, at least to me – but it’s wonderfully pretty nevertheless

A challenge for boatbuilders: a sweet 10ft clinker-built double-ended skiff A challenge for boatbuilders: a sweet 10ft clinker-built double-ended skiff A challenge for boatbuilders: a sweet 10ft clinker-built double-ended skiff

A challenge for boatbuilders: a sweet 10ft clinker-built double-ended skiff A challenge for boatbuilders: a sweet 10ft clinker-built double-ended skiff A challenge for boatbuilders: a sweet 10ft clinker-built double-ended skiff

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SketchUp models of some of my free boat designs

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Little Breton

Flying Mouse Oarmouse

Lapstrake tender Little Breton, kids’ small sailing boat Flying Mouse (there are details for a rudder too!), and the Mouse-derived small rowing skiff Oarmouse

I’m very tickled this morning to hear from Kellan Hatch, who got in touch to deliver the news that some little boats I designed for home building a few years ago (the lapstrake tender Little Breton, the Flying Mouse and Oarmouse) have made it into Google’s SketchUp galleries. I think they’re a hoot – even if they aren’t very classic! Go to the Google 3DSketchUp gallery for more – I got these by searching on my own name, Gavin Atkin. I have to say that this is the first time following up my own name on the Internet has ever led me to unexpected nudity, but there’s a first time for everything.

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