Category: River boats

Three Men in a Boat

Jerome K Jerome

Jerome K Jerome

It seems a little odd to post a link to an eBook of a classic Victorian English novel, but that’s what I’m going to do tonight.

Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat… To Say Nothing of the Dog describes a journey on the Thames by three young men and a small dog in a Thames skiff equipped for camping. It’s a classic of boating literature and of Victorian English life, and seems to me to be a prototype for every road movie I’ve ever seen. If you haven’t had occasion to read it yet, I strongly recommend it Continue reading “Three Men in a Boat”

The wonderful Architectura Navalis

Chapman

Here’s something delicious for those of you who love to see great draftsmanship. And I do mean great – some of the work here is enough to pin back a fella’s eyelids and make him dribble.

This is Frederik Henrik AF Chapman’s Architectura Navalis. Published in 1768, it is a compendium of drawings of what Chapman, a prominent Swedish naval architect, considered to be the best and most interesting ships and boats of the time. Best of all, you can see them here:
http://www.sjohistoriska.se/

For a timeline and a list of Chapman relics, click here:
http://www.bruzelius.info/

Finally, here is one more postage-stamp sized image from the collection. I should warn you that the downloads held by the museum are in the tiff format and they’re also pretty big – you’ll need an image editor or viewer with a tiff facility to see them, and you’ll need something a little newer and with more memory than the old Windows 2000 laptop wordbox I use to view them easily.

Chapman


Some photos for a busy evening…

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We’re having a busy evening tonight, so I’m going to quickly put three photos up about boats I know little about, though of course I would like to know more. Click on the photos for a much bigger image.

Seen at La Roche Bernard, the first is a heavy-looking cruising yacht that has quite a lot of French fishing boat about her:

Douarnenez sailing cruiser Douarnenez sailing cruiser

Below is a Broads cruising yacht during the Three Rivers Race, steaming along the river from Potter Heigham towards Hickling with a storm chasing up behind. In the last patch of sunlight before the dark clouds catch her, she’s an impressive sight but can anyone tell us more?

Broads cruiser

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