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I found a few more photos of Nick Smith’s work I’d forgotten to put up – so here they are.
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Nick Smith, boatbuilder, at the Beale Park Boat Show
Nick’s a member of the Wooden Boatbuilder’s Trade Association, and you can read more about him here: Nick Smith at the WBTA website
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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
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Nick Smith clinker-built motor launch for sale at
the Beale Park Boat Show
Work in progress on another clinker motor launch
(with Bumble in the background)
More pictures of the very sweet Bumble
small motor launch
I spotted three of Nick Smith’s motor launches at the Beale Park Boat Show– one was very elegant and for sale, one about a third of the way to being built, and one the very sweet little 12-footer Bumble, built by him in 1991 of mahogany on oak and on loan for the show from the owner, Jona Behrens.
The boats are all drawn to scale by Nick himself, who tells me that he then builds them by eye on the traditional ‘if it looks right then it is right’ principle. Well, they certainly look right in these photos.
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