Gavin Atkin's weblog for the sort of people who like looking inside boat sheds. It's about old boats, traditional boats, boat building, restoration, the sea and the North Kent Coast
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Ripple on the Swale – click for computer wallpaper
Tonight, I’ve decided to share some relaxing views of the Swale – I spent today gardening and wishing I could have gone sailing. The first ‘Ripple of the Swale’ I offer as a computer screen wallpaper or background. The others are simply because they depict a favourite place…
Entrance to Oare Creek
Sunset over the Isle of Harty
Norfolk Broads boats racing, photo by Robert Henson, image from
the Wikipedia. This photo is from 2004, but could easily have been
taken fifty years ago. That’s part of the magic of The Broads
•Fifty years ago, schools on the Norfolk Broads were teaching kids to build boats.
•A lifeboat restoration at Walton, Essex is nearing completion. Read more here.
•A large wooden powerboat takes shape in a boatbuilding revival at Leigh, Essex.
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Roach well reefed, well heeled and glistening with varnish!
Read all about Roach’s windy adventure here! She’s a Dallimore sloop built in 1948.