Category: Motor yachts and boats

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Monet’s paintings of traditional French rowing and sailing boats More photos from The Yachtsman - including a legendary actress and mistress to Royalty - racing sailing yacht Charmaine A challenge for boatbuilders: a sweet 10ft clinker-built double-ended skiff

Monet fishing boats; 100-year old racing yacht photos from The Yachtsman, and building plans for a double-ended Scottish clinker skiff

Nick Smith boats UK Home Built Boat Regatta meeting Dorma

Nick Smith’s clinker-built boats; Home Built Boat Regatta; Hillyard cruising yacht Dorma

Flying 10 Ella in Annabel Young Bristol

Uffa Fox Flying 10s at West Lancs; my daughter Ella sailing a Mirror; pilot gig Young Bristol

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More boats from boatbuilder Nick Smith

Nick Smith boats

Bamboo Viper, a 20-foot launch with a 10 hp petrol vintage British inboard engine

Nick Smith has sent some more photos of his boats to share with intheboatshed.net readers. Thanks Nick!

Nick’s a member of the Wooden Boatbuilder’s Trade Association, and you can read more about him here:
Nick Smith at the WBTA website

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Nick Smith traditional clinker boatbuilder Nick Smith traditional clinker boatbuilder
Bumble at Beale Park (pictured here with Nick), and
at the Stuart Turner Centenary regatta last year

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Nick Smith, boatbuilder, at the Beale Park Boat Show

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Nick Smith, Boatbuilder

Nick Smith, Boatbuilder Nick Smith, Boatbuilder

Nick Smith clinker-built motor launch for sale at
the Beale Park Boat Show

Nick Smith, Boatbuilder

Work in progress  on another clinker motor launch
(with Bumble in the background)

Nick Smith, Boatbuilder Nick Smith, Boatbuilder

More pictures of the very sweet Bumble
small motor launch

I spotted three of Nick Smith’s motor launches at the Beale Park Boat Show– one was very elegant and for sale, one about a third of the way to being built, and one the very sweet little 12-footer Bumble, built by him in 1991 of mahogany on oak and on loan for the show from the owner, Jona Behrens.

The boats are all drawn to scale by Nick himself, who tells me that he then builds them by eye on the traditional ‘if it looks right then it is right’ principle. Well, they certainly look right in these photos.

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