Gavin Atkin's weblog for the sort of people who like looking inside boat sheds. It's about old boats, traditional boats, boat building, restoration, the sea and the North Kent Coast
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The first of the two Blue Moons built by Cem Gur and colleagues in Turkey is launched. This one is going to an owner in Greece.
Designed by Thomas Gillmer, the Blue Moon is such an attractive boat that even my kids are oohing and aahing over the pictures!
For more Blue Moon posts at intheboatshed.net, follow this link.
PS – here are a couple of new photos to look at. Click on the thumbnails for larger photos.
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Dylan Winter’s engaging vlog Keep Turning Left
– A grand naming ceremony for two new Shetland sixareens
•Flyer’s Boat Yard restores the Old Pro
•Three Buzzards Bay 30s restored in Maine
•Ian Best traditional Shetland boatbuilder
•Catalogue for the 2008 Woodenboat show at the Mystic Seaport Museum, Connecticut
•Dylan Winter’s engaging video log Keep Turning Left
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Light Trow Onawind Blue armed to the teeth for a substantial open
boat cruise along the Spanish East Coast. Photo by Ben Crawshaw
From The Invisible Workshop:
Tuesday, 24 June 2008; Onawind Blue’s birthday
‘A fitting day to leave but despite my best intentions I didn’t get going until 11am, the family waving from the beach as OB, under full sail, bore off south southwest beneath grey skies in a light, easterly breeze.
‘Blessed with a favourable wind we ran quickly down to Tarragona and then, as the wind increased—almost certainly due to the un-forecast deep, dark clouds grumbling on the western horizon, even more quickly.
‘To windward the gunmetal waters were flecked with white… ‘
Read the rest of the series here.
For more intheboatshed.net posts about the Light Trow, click here.
Onawind Blue moored – photo by Ben Crawshaw
from his second report
