Category: River boats

47 John Gardner small boat designs for £13.19p!

John Gardner Book
This little gem available from Amazon is now a much better price than the one I seem to remember paying a few years ago.It really is a bargain too: 47 designs, many of them classics, and all drawn and described by an acknowledged master of American traditional boat building.

There’s a lot to learn from a book like this, no matter what the nationality of the author may be, and the price is equal to the cost of a small round of drinks. Mine’s a strong bitter please!
John Gardner’s Building Classic Small Craft

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Forest & Stream skiff

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Just about everyone who comes to these pages is some kind of boat nut, and I’m a boat nut too. I’d like to make this weblog as interesting and useful to us all as possible, and I want to fill it with news and photographs about:
•Projects about old boats, historic boats, traditionally-built boats, and traditionally-derived boats.
•Boating history and traditions.
•The skills involved, the craftsmen and the available training.
So, whether you own these kinds of boats, work on them, sell them, build them, paint or photograph them, write about their history, design them, run a club or organise events, or collect old songs and stories connected with them – if you would like to bring your projects to the attention of a wider public, email me now at gmatkin@gmail.com!

A Duchess is reborn

duchess before Duchess after
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A 40ft gentleman’s river cruiser that went on to work for many years as a pleasure cruiser, Duchess was transformed in sixteen months, starting in January 2004 – and these are the before and after photos.

She lay derelict for many years before being re-built by Chris Berry of Traditional Sail, for a client who intended to use her for cruising. The site includes a lot of photos of what happened during her restoration and repair: all of her frames had to be replaced, as well as 80 per cent of the planking.

http://www.traditionalsail.co.uk/