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.
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‘But as we rowed up this crowded harbour we came in for a perfect storm of rough but quite good-natured chaff from both the men and women… As French was a foreign language to most of the fishermen also we got on fairly well… But I can imagine that yachtsmen with short tempers and an exaggerated idea of their dignity might not have fared so well. If a man has corners to be rubbed off, by all means let him sail to Concarneau.’
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‘During the cruise we found that Tern could outsail any of the ordinary fishing craft which we saw under way. The famous luggers of Concarneau and Doarnenez were easily left behind. But this morning we passed through a fleet of boats which opened our eyes considerably…’
More to follow…
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Water Craft is a great magazine – subscribe now
The Beale Park Boat Show, the annual Amateur Boatbuilding Competition and the true story of the near death and new life of the Cornish Crabbers company all feature in the September/October issue of Water Craft.
I should remind readers that The Most Innovative Home-Made Boat went to Chris Waite’s Octavia, an elegant and efficient stitch and glue rowing skiff that we’ve featured several times at intheboatshed.net – no doubt the Water Craft article will reveal much more.
From France there are photos of La Semaine du Golfe du Morbihan from Kathy Mansfield and Tony Langmead, and in the dark depths of his boat shed Dick Philips makes more progress on his strip-planked Nigel Irens-designed Roxane.
There’s an extra reason for taking out a sub now, by the way – for in October the magazine’s subscription prices go up!