Category: Small boats

Ilaut thole pin photos from Ben Crawshaw

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Thole pine from a Spanish Ilaut photographed by Ben Crawshaw

Thole pin photographed by Ben Crawshaw

A series of posts about the traditional Spanish ilaut have appeared at Ben Crawshaw’s weblog The Invisible Workshop over the past few days. Interestingly, they’re carvel built and rather like ship’s lifeboats in shape

I was particularly struck by one post about thole pins that might interest rowers in particular. Some appear not to have been used, while others are clearly very important to the boat’s owners, yet others show a characterful kind of neglect.

Jeff Cole chips in with another tin boat

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Australian galvanised boat

Australian tin boat, probably used by a farmer on or around the Murray River

While we’re on the twin subjects of Antipodean boats and tin boats, Jeff C has neatly combined the two with this photo of an extraordinary Australian tin boat.

Here’s what Jeff says about it:

‘This pic was taken at a garden show. The boat was borrowed from a farmer on the Murray River. It’s from the 1940s at least, and maybe earlier, he thought. It looks like a proprietary item but I couldn’t find an ID, but it’s Aussie Gal Iron. It weighs a ton! Farmers used this sort of thing in Redgum to transport sheep. There’s plenty of floatation, but she’d be a slow row!’

Once again, many thanks Jeff!

Open boat cruising in New Zealand – in boats designed by John Welsford

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John Weslford boats openboat cruising in New Zealand

Some John Welsford-designed boats rafted up in some idyllic New Zealand spot.
Can’t you just smell the warm air on the water?

Duckworksmagazine has put up this nice article about open boat cruising in New Zealand, and John Welsford’s boats.