Category: Modern boatbuilding

Modern and plywood boatbuilding and plans

Dylan Winter makes it to Scotland

Filming, blogging, talking and entertaining small boat cruiser Dylan Winter has had a remarkable few weeks.

He’s arrived in Edinburgh on his Keep Turning Left UK circumnavigation jaunt, and as usual he’s hatching plans for the next leg of his circumnavigation of the UK that are occupying the minds of lots of folks on the YBW forum. He has also become a hit for the Daily Mail website, whose readers have latched onto his tealights and flowerpot heating arrangement – as has the alternative lifestyle crowd.

How confusing… or at least it would be for me. Dylan, I feel sure will take it all in his stride, and entertain us all as he does it.

Editing videos takes time, but there are a series of YouTubes covering his trip from the Tetney on the Humber up to Bridlington. I’ve posted the first below – see the rest at his website,  Keep Turning Left, or on his YouTube account.

Adam Newton completes and sells his elegant little rower

Adam Newton of the Boatyard at Beer tells me that elegant new rowing boat he’s been working on is now complete and has been sold to a happy customer from Plymouth.

I gather the new owner plans to take her to the Beale Park Boat Show next year to demonstrate some adjustable rowlocks he’s designing. Now that sounds interesting…

 

 

Boat project starts at the Faversham Creek Trust’s Purifier Building

Alan Thorne starts a project at the Faversham Creek Trust's Purifier Building

 

My pal Alan Thorne is starting a project to build a small dinghy at his new workshop at the the Faversham Creek Trust’s Purifier Building. It’s only a start – but here’s one he built earlier (clue – I don’t mean he built the sailing barge Dawn you see in the background!).

Let’s hope this is that start of something really good.

One of Alan Thorne's small boats with the sailing barge in the background Alan Thorne dinghy