Category: Sailing cruisers

Sailing yachts used for cruising, or as cruiser-racers.

Fine weather and fine boats at the Boat Building Academy launch day, December 2008

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Two of the latest student boats to be launched
at the Boat Building Academy. As usual, click on
the thumbnail for a much larger image

Down at Lyme Regis, the Boat Building Academy’s Class of March 2008 had their big launch day at Lyme a few days ago – and managed to hit on a day of beautiful weather. Lucky devils… as principal Yvonne Green said, ‘One of us must have done a good deed.’

Quite so. These two shots are just a taster – there are more come, and descriptions also. Read about this year’s students and their projects here.

For more intheboatshed.net posts about the Boat Building Academy and its earlier student intakes, click here.

Flica site now has a news weblog

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Do you know the identity of any of these characters?

The America’s Cup Masters website now has a news weblog about Flica and the Flica project, bits of history that come to light and the rest – take a look now.

In the meantime, do you know the identity of any of the rogues in the photo above? The crew member standing at the extreme left of this photograph is William Page, a Tollesbury man, who sailed with Fairey from 1932 onwards; the names of the two crew members standing next to him are still unknown but to the right of them are Herbert Diaper, Fairey’s skipper, and Sir Richard Fairey himself.

If you can, please contact the Flica project.

John Welsford starts making sawdust on his Pilgrim cruising dinghy project

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John Welsford cuts out the transom for Pilgrim

It’s always useful to see how the professionals do it, so I’m pleased to link to John Welsford’s diary recording his work on this new cruising dinghy, Pilgrim.

The key points in the latest entry are testing an unknown plywood, including a routine previously unknown to me that involves burying it in mashed potato, marking out using a house-builder’s roofing square (clearly his equivalent of the dry-wall square) and a flexible batten supported by tins of food, and cutting out with an electric saw.

On the latter point, I gather he uses a veneer blade, and I must say the results are impressively free of splintering.

To read the this entry at John’s website, click here.