Category: Skills and tuition

The IBTC opens at Portsmouth

tea 1 editIBTC Portsmouth and it’s satellite shipwright school at Buckler’s Hard have now opened their doors to the first cohort of boatbuilding students.

The group at Portsmouth are said to be the first boatbuilding students at the site since the 1960s – the photo shows the nine Portsmouth students enjoying a break in the sun last week.

The IBTC folks report that local reaction to the opening has been very positive.

The college now recruiting for July 2015 for the college’s 47-week City & Guilds wooden boatbuilding diploma at both Portsmouth and Lowestoft. April is the first course, with intakes in July, Sept and December 2015. Enrolling now.

 

WRINKLES IN SEAMANSHIP OR A ‘HELP’ TO SALT HORSE, BY LIEUT. C CRADOCK, RN, PART 2

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More from the mighty Lieutenant Cradock. In this section, I think, he makes it obvious that sailing big square riggers in the old fashioned way is every bit as complex as it looks…

 

Classic Sailing instructional leaflets

Classic Sail instructional leaflets

Classic Sailing has published a set of interesting online leaflets that explains some important tall-ship techniques that are perhaps rather opaque to the rest of us.

The topics include pilotage, climbing rigging, heaving-to, running a charter business and the Beaufort scale.

Pilotage is perhaps familiar, but would you know how to heave to in a square rigged ship?  It may not be quite what you think…