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SketchUp models of some of my free boat designs

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Little Breton

Flying Mouse Oarmouse

Lapstrake tender Little Breton, kids’ small sailing boat Flying Mouse (there are details for a rudder too!), and the Mouse-derived small rowing skiff Oarmouse

I’m very tickled this morning to hear from Kellan Hatch, who got in touch to deliver the news that some little boats I designed for home building a few years ago (the lapstrake tender Little Breton, the Flying Mouse and Oarmouse) have made it into Google’s SketchUp galleries. I think they’re a hoot – even if they aren’t very classic! Go to the Google 3DSketchUp gallery for more – I got these by searching on my own name, Gavin Atkin. I have to say that this is the first time following up my own name on the Internet has ever led me to unexpected nudity, but there’s a first time for everything.

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Pilot gig Young Bristol launched with all due ceremony and pomp

Young Bristol

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Young Bristol

Win Cnoops of the Underfall Yard and the Slipway Collective has been in touch with some photos of the launch of the pilot gig we first saw in a half-built state at the Beale Park Boat Show. It certainly seems as if both the local dignitaries and rowers treated the event with all the reverence the beautifully built new boat deserved. Thanks Win!

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Bristol Channel pilot cutter and yacht Carlotta is being restored

Carlotta

Carlotta Carlotta

The Bristol Channel pilot cutter Carlotta was built in 1899 by William H Halford of Gloucester, England for the Cumberland Sea Fishery Committee for use in patrolling the fisheries in the Cumberland area. She was nevertheless built to the same scantlings, materials, design and layout as two pilot boats built previously by the Halford yard, St Bee’s and Brittannia.

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She was converted into a yacht in 1907, and from then on had an extraordinary history Click here to read more: Continue reading “Bristol Channel pilot cutter and yacht Carlotta is being restored”