Category: Motor yachts and boats

More astonishing American brightwork and chrome

More astonishing American brightwork

You may think you’ve seen varnish – but you might change your mind when you’ve seen Bill Prince’s astonishing collection of photos from the 2007 Keels & Wheels Concours D’Elegance & Auction at Seabrook in Texas. Somehow it’s all a bit different from the Beale Park Boatshow – there’s plenty of varnish there too, but somehow it has just a little less attitude.

I explained how to tune a uke only today – can you sing My dog has fleas? – so naturally I love this shot with a ukelele elegantly reclining on a bench seat.

The photos are a teaser for the upcoming edition of Bill’s Classic Yacht Magazine.

Take a moment to look around: there are some extraordinary photos here, including the truck full of elderly outboards, and what about the turquoise and zebra seats? See what I mean about ‘tude?

http://www.classicyachtmag.com/Keels &… Wheels.htm

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Newson’s builds a competition hydroplane

Hydroplane built at Newson’s

Not yet a classic exactly but part of a grand tradition, this is a hydroplane built by Newson’s for the 2007 OSY400 Hydroplane World Championships, which are to be held on Oulton Broad this year.

OSY400 is a hydroplane class in which the competing boats are powered by a standard Yamato 400cc engine – OSY stands for Outboard Stock Yamato. The little engines develop 33BHP, but the diminunitive plywood and FRP hulls are so well developed that the boats reach astonishing speeds of Continue reading “Newson’s builds a competition hydroplane”

It’s wonderful to be appreciated, Part II…

The Truant Romance Keith Kendrick, singer of sea songs and concertina player

intheboatshed.net has been doing particularly well in the past couple of months, not least in terms of the numbers of people calling by to read our daily posts. As I write, we’ve had almost 34,000 hits, which I’m told makes us very successful for a weblog about a minority activity. While I would agree that we’re not doing too badly, I’d also suggest that perhaps the people who admire traditional boats constitute quite a large minority, as minorities go…

I’m particularly pleased today as we’ve had a delightful message of support from the great US writer and editor Peter H Spectre, as you can see at Continue reading “It’s wonderful to be appreciated, Part II…”