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International 12 Foot Dinghy
This morning a ‘pingback’ appeared in my comments from the Italian weblog SIBMA. I’m not entirely clear what a pingback is, but apparently it was meant to inform me that my post about the Cinderella rowing conversion had been picked up by the SIBMA site.
I took a moment to see what else SIBMA had been publishing lately. Well; that’s how WWW works, isn’t it?
Sure enough, Cinderella appeared at the top of the SIBMA blog for today, but just a couple of posts down I was amazed to see Continue reading “George Cockshott’s sweet 12-foot dinghy”
Cinderella, adapted for rowing by Martin Wellby
I can’t claim this is about any kind of traditional boat, but I think I can safely say that rowing is a traditional activity, that more people should do it and that this post is about a neat and inexpensive way of equipping yourself to do it. These photos show a very sweetly made canoe built to my Cinderella design that has been adapted in a couple of useful ways.
Designers don’t often like the changes people make to their designs, but in this case Continue reading “A Cinderella canoe adapted for rowing”