Category: Locations

A Rob Roy canoe in Australia, 1900

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Rob Roy in Australia

Rob Roy canoe

Today, reader Jeff Cole alerted me to this image of a Rob Roy canoe on a lagoon at Warrock Station, Australia in around 1900. It can be found in the Victoria Museum’s online archive, and the link is here.

Thanks Jeff!

Incidentally, Jeff sails an Oughtred Macgregor similar to the one Chris Perkins built, although rigged with a single sail, and here are some of photos he has kindly sent of his boat and where he sails:

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For more intheboatshed.net posts on canoes and sailing canoes, follow this link: Canoe posts.

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Mud, fabulous, glorious, thick gloopy mud

Mud

Mud

Just in case the rest of the world isn’t quite clear why yachties on the English East Coast talk so much about mud, I though I would show you this photo taken by Julie. Like a certain sort of film star, it has a kind of sullen, pouting beauty all of its own, don’t you think?

And of course it’s difficult not to think of the Flanders & Swann song about the hippopotamus:

‘Mud, mud, glorious mud
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood’ 

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A handsome Humber keel

Humber Keel engraving

Humber Keel engraving

This is one you could hang on a wall – and I hope some of you will.

I recently found this lovely engraving of a Humber keel in a very old book, and I’ve made the downloadable file extra-large to try to make sure it will print out nicely. Perhaps some of you will find a suitable spot for it.

For more posts relating to the Humber and its vessels:
Dove
More of Roger Davies classic marine paintings
A barge with a Viking-style square sail

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