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Don’t be too put off by the photo! The Afloat website has a nice piece about boat builders in Ireland that includes veteran Jimmy Furey, who builts beautiful Water Wags and Shannon One Designs, new generation traditional boatbuilder Dougal MacMahon, the current wave of interest in building Bray Droleens, and a project at Clontarf Yacht & Boat Club building a clinker IDRA 14.
Over at boatbuilder Mark Rolt’s yard in Bristol, the bawley Fiddle of Faversham, is in for repair and has got a new mast – the photo below shows why!
The boat in the background isn’t Fiddle, btw – see her here.
Alasdair Grant has been in touch with these photos of his current self-designed project, a 21ft carvel motor launch named Lewenie, which has an interior layout specified by his customer.
Click on the thumbnails above to see much larger images.
Alasdair says she looks like she’ll be ready for her planned launch in July, all being well.
Read all about her here.