The launch of the John Nash skiff

The launch of the John Nash skiff

The launch of the John Nash skiff The launch of the John Nash skiff

The John Nash

It’s a small world, they say, and I constantly find that the people in it are connected in unexpected ways. So I really shouldn’t have been surprised when my not-especially-boaty musician buddy Richard Goodwin reported that his jazz-tinged Welsh country dance music Twm Twp had just played a gig to celebrate the launch of a new boat he thought might interest me…

As it turned out, the project had been designed and built by two people whom readers who have used the intheboatshed.net links page may well have come across: Andrew Wolstenholme and Fabian Bush.

The boat in question, the John Nash is Andrew Wolstenholme’s design for Continue reading “The launch of the John Nash skiff”

More on the John Smith 400 shallop

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John Smith shallop detail

This collection of detail photos has kindly been sent in by our friend Ed Bachmann, a regular reader and supporter of http://intheboatshed.net, and the fella who first alerted me to the John Smith Shallop. Many thanks Ed!

For more on this boat, see A 400-year-old shallop built and sailed again

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Softwing, a Truro river oyster dredger

Softwing

24-ft Truro River oyster dredger Softwing at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall

Visitors to the National Maritime Museum Cornwall this summer can take 90-minute cruises around Carrick Roads and the Fal estuary aboard Softwing, a 24-ft traditional Truro River oyster dredger.

Designed to be operated by one man, Softwing was built at Yard Point, Penpol Creek in 1900 by Frank Hitchens. A working boat for sixty years, she was first Continue reading “Softwing, a Truro river oyster dredger”