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SketchUp models of some of my free boat designs

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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.

The boat designs are available free from various places, including Continue reading “SketchUp models of some of my free boat designs”

Traditional boat construction and part naming

The construction of a traditional clinker- built Naval boat, as presented in an Admiralty manual of 1923. Check out the groovy pillar supporting the seat!

I think these pages from the Admiralty’s 1937 Manual of Seamanship make up the best quick description of the construction of boats of the time and the names of the various parts I have yet seen. Continue reading “Traditional boat construction and part naming”

The Royal Navy’s small sailing craft of 1937

Naval 30ft gig – the RN’s fastest service boat under sail in 1937

These pages describing the Navy’s small sailing craft and how to sail them come from the Admiralty’s Manual of Seamanship, dated 1937. Many of them will be familiar to ex-Naval personnel, and to those who worked in boat and ship building in years gone by.

There’s some fascinating stuff here, including the information that the lugger was the fastest small sailing boat that the Navy had in those days – and that its rig was pretty well identical to Cornish luggers from up to 100 years before. There’s also some sail dimension information that people who work with traditional boats might find useful and interesting today, and instructions on sailing that still seem relevant, at least to me.

There are other chapters on the construction and the naming of parts of small boats, so if this post proves popular, I’ll put that material up at some point.

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