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Category: Small boats
Beale Park Boat Show: artist Claudia Myatt, Starfish Books and a coracle
Artist and author Claudia Myatt has written to say she’ll be at the Beale Park Boat Show (10-12 June), where it seems her time will be divided between manning her Starfish Books stand, and messing about on the water.
‘Beale Park is the perfect antidote to big boat shows,’ she says. ‘It takes mixing business and pleasure to a fine art, which is why I spend as much time paddling my coracle on the lake as I do on the stand.’
Claudia has been exhibiting at the show since it began over ten years ago. Since then she has developed her Starfish Books range of colourful nautical designs, which now includes the Log Book for Little Ships and the popular Go Sailing series of children’s books commissioned by the RYA.
New for this year is RYA Go Green. Fun and colourful, it covers everything you need to know about the marine environment, from rivers to oceans, sharks to shopping. All Claudia’s books, cards and designs will be on the Starfish Books stand in the area of the show called the Marine Village – and colouring sheets will be available to entertain children while parents browse.
Finally, her website includes a nice child’s colouring-in drawing of boats on a lake that could easily have been inspired by the Beale Park show. If you’re bringing kids, why not print it out – I’m sure she’d like to see them nicely coloured-in at the show.
Photos from the Iain Oughtred boat weekend in Holland
These dreamy shots taken by Gemma Toussaint come from the Iain’s Clan Weekend, a meeting for builders and users of Iain Oughtred’s boats that organised earlier this month by Bert Van Baar of the De Bootbouwschool at Uitgeest, Holland.
Readers may be entertained by this short video by Frank Vergeer – Home Built Boat Rally members might even identify one ot personalities…
That black double-ender is a aluminium Tirrik built by Jachtwerf de Zeeg.
PS – While we’re on the subject of Oughtred boats, a few days ago Man on the River Giacomo de Stefano and pals made it across the Channel in their Oughtred Ness Yawl and made a nice short film about it.