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Priceless details and wonderful, if fuzzy, photos: Sailing Canoes: A Brief History
Also, check Tim Gittner’s jolly archive, which contains lots of lines from old-fashioned canoes, and quite a lot from Uffa Fox in his usual hale and hearty style. http://www.intcanoe.org/iclife/history.html
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And finally, while we’re on this subject Continue reading “Priceless photos and descriptions of old sailing canoes”
Onawind Blue on the beach for a photo session
Dreamer that he is, Ben Crawshaw took his handsome Light Trow named Onawind Blue down to the beach for some more photos. See:
Whisky and soda at the Invisible Workshop.
I love the way this boat is coming together and the painterly way he often photographs her- as this is the prototype, I pray almost nightly that it works as well as it looks!
For more on the Light Trow and its ancestor the Fleet Trow:
‘Phwoar!’, says Light Trow builder Ben Crawshaw
Download the Light Trow plans here:
http://www.duckworksbbs.com/plans/gavin/lighttrow/trow.zip
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Intheboatshed.net has had its new-style presentation for some days now, and I hope you are quickly getting used to the new three-column layout.
The idea behind the change was to make navigation easier – the old right-hand column was so long I was sure many readers never found it, and dividing its site navigation contents between two short columns on each side seems very much better.
I expect to tweak the design over the coming weeks, not least because I miss the airy, comforting quality of the old green and cream colour scheme. If I can work out how to use the style-sheet side of this new layout, I may go back to it while keeping the new three-column arrangement.
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