Gavin Atkin's weblog for the sort of people who like looking inside boat sheds. It's about old boats, traditional boats, boat building, restoration, the sea and the North Kent Coast
Sailing yachts used for cruising, or as cruiser-racers.
Terry Burton was tickled by Mark Shiner’s story of how everthing went wrong the day he inadvertently went sailing wearing an unnecessarily nautical Breton cap. Many thanks once again Terry!
For the full story, click here:
The curse of the Breton cap
See more of Terry’s work here: http://www.terry-burton.co.uk
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Kind Win Cnoops of the Underfall Yard and the Slipway Collective has sent us some more shots of the gig Young Bristol being built – which I know will be a treat for many of you who first saw her at the Beale Park Boat Show. (See A pilot gig at the Beale Park Boat Show for earlier photos.)
Young Bristol is due to be launched during the Bristol Docks Regatta on Saturday July 28th at 10.30, if any of you can get down to the docks for the big event.
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Actually, it will be a big event for I gather the Irish famine ship Dunbrody is due to be there, as well as the newly finished Sail Training Ship Pelican, rigged by Underfall Yard-based rigger
Continue reading “The pilot gig at the Beale Park Boat Show launches on July 28th”
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Around Lake Wener, 1907, pages 12 to 29: ‘The bacon, by the way, we had condemned and buried at the last camp. I hope no-one found it and invented a tragedy to account for its discovery, but certainly the finder, if there was one, must have had a gruesome experience!’
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To be continued…
See the rest of this series: Continue reading “Anderson by sailing canoe and dinghy around Lake Wener, pages 12 to 29”