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A Rob Roy canoe in Australia, 1900

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Rob Roy in Australia

Rob Roy canoe

Today, reader Jeff Cole alerted me to this image of a Rob Roy canoe on a lagoon at Warrock Station, Australia in around 1900. It can be found in the Victoria Museum’s online archive, and the link is here.

Thanks Jeff!

Incidentally, Jeff sails an Oughtred Macgregor similar to the one Chris Perkins built, although rigged with a single sail, and here are some of photos he has kindly sent of his boat and where he sails:

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More pics of Chris Perkins’ Oughtred Macgregor canoe

Chris Perkins’ Macgregor

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Chris Perkins’ Macgregor; photos courtesy of Chris

The world has some very kind people in it, thankfully, and one of them is Chris Perkins, builder of the Iain Oughtred canoe featured by intheboatshed.net a few days ago.

The story goes like this. I accidentally lost almost all of the 480 photos I took at the recent Beale Park Boat Show after a backup failed to work properly, and so I appealed for some replacements – and Macgregor canoe builder Chris Perkins was kind enough to supply me with some of his. Naturally, I’m hugely grateful. Thanks Chris.

In the circumstances, I thought I should begin with some Continue reading “More pics of Chris Perkins’ Oughtred Macgregor canoe”

Gorgeous Oughtred sailing canoe wins 2007 Watercraft boatbuilding prize

Scotch Mist

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Built to Iain Oughtred’s Macgregor design, Scotch Mist was the winner of the 2007 Watercraft boat building competition

Scotch Mist’s builder Chris Perkins built his beautiful sailing canoe to Iain Oughtred’s Macgregor design in an attempt to create a boat he could launch and recover on his own.

The name came from a definition in the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue that seems to have tickled Chris’s fancy: Continue reading “Gorgeous Oughtred sailing canoe wins 2007 Watercraft boatbuilding prize”