Open day at the IBTC, Lowestoft 11 Oct 2008

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International Boatbuilding Training College, 2008
IBTC class of 2008

The International Boatbuilding Training College at Lowestoft in Suffolk is having an open day on Saturday the 11th October. It’s the only weekend day in the year that it’s open to visitors – so grasp the opportunity and get along if you can. It sounds very much like a grand day out to me…

Whether or not you can make it, you might be interested in these photos kindly supplied by Gill at the college – as usual, click on the image and a larger photo should pop up.

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Uffa Fox’s airborne lifeboat – at last a nice clear photograph!

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Uffa Fox's airborne lifeboat at the Classic Boat Museum, Isle of Wight

Uffa Fox’s airborne lifeboat at the Classic Boat Museum, Newport

I’ve posted about the airborne lifeboat before – see Uffa Fox’s airborne lifeboat at the Museum of the Broads and Uffa Fox’s great and lasting memorial – the Airborne Lifeboat – but I’m delighted that Julie’s photo of the example at the Classic Boat Museum at Newport on the Isle of Wight is the best I’ve seen.

Thanks again Julie!

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I’m officially on holiday, but here are some links to keep regular readers going!

Five Years in Siam From 1891 to 1896 by H Warington Smyth

Lowell’s Boat Shop, Amesbury, Massachusetts

A short but also long report from Brest 2008

Concern over ‘abandoned’ boat

Sunk Brits’ four-day raft storm hell

A History of Shipbuilding by Per Åkesson

Glimpses of Traditional Boatbuilding in Goa by Johan Roque

Elderly fella making very nice models

Whaleboat racing