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Dusk at Oare Creek

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Oare Creek

We were working on the boat yesterday and sailing today, so we’re much too tired to put up a post. I’ll put some more pages of Practical Boat Building for Amateurs tomorrow, but for now here’s a photo I took as dusk approached at Oare Creek yesterday evening. I can’t help being a romantic, I’m afraid, and loved the evening light.

They say that every picture tells a story; I gather that the live-aboard boat on the bank at the right got stuck there a few tides back and is waiting for the next springs.

Donald Campbell’s Jetstar appears at the NMM Cornwall

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Jetstar

Donald Campbell’s one-off 13ft hydrojet sports-boat Jetstar is on show in the foyer at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall 40 years after he tragically died attempting to set a world water speed record of 300mph.

Campbell’s attempt at the record ended in disaster on 4 January 1967, when his legendary jet-powered Bluebird K7 flipped into the air and crashed on Coniston Water.

The smart and innovative little boat with a blue hull and mahogany decks was intended to Continue reading “Donald Campbell’s Jetstar appears at the NMM Cornwall”

Ian Heard watercolours and prints at NMM Cornwall

Ian Heard painting

Ian Heard painting Ian Heard painting Ian Heard painting

The National Maritime Museum Cornwall is putting on a new exhibition of twelve original watercolours and seven prints of Cornwall and Devon working craft by Ian Heard.

The show, which runs from 3rd April, includes a newly commissioned painting of a 19th century Gorran Haven Crabber currently being built in Fowey, and based on the only remaining craft of her type. The painting will be Continue reading “Ian Heard watercolours and prints at NMM Cornwall”