Category: River boats

Gondola on Coniston Water

Gondola on Coniston Water

Gondola

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This is the handsome steam launch and pleasure boat Gondola, first built by railway tycoon Sir James Ramsden in the 1850s to take tourists on tours of Coniston Water, and later rebuilt in the 1980s.

The local railway was originally built to transport raw materials mined in the Coniston Fells to Barrow in Furness from where they were shipped out to their final destination. Sir James saw the potential for Continue reading “Gondola on Coniston Water”

Ben Crawshaw’s Light Trow makes progress

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This isn’t a proper post – it’s just me taking a late-night opportunity to crow about the boat that Ben Crawshaw’s building to my Light Trow design. Take a peek at the last photo in his set in this post.

I’m getting very excited, as although the design has had quite a lot of attention, this is the first of these boats to be built.

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More dreams of sailing canoes

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Life is full of surprises. One of the biggest surprises I’ve had during the short life of intheboatshed.net has been the level of interest in sailing canoes and canoe yawls: posts on these attract more attention than almost any others.

It’s an interest that I can certainly sympathise with, so the news in Classic Boat that George Holmes’s iconic Eel is currently for sale at Alan Staley’s yard at Faversham in Kent (tel 01795 530668), I thought I would Google for more information on the boat and similar boats.

Here’s what I found: Continue reading “More dreams of sailing canoes”