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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Wind-up rowing toy at Chris Partridge’s weblog Rowing for Pleasure
Chris Partridge reports that he found this video of a sweet and romantic wind-up rowing toy at the website of the Musee de la Marine in Paris. As it happens, I’m going to Paris next weekend, so maybe I should take my camera down to the museum.
Thanks for a really good idea Chris!
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‘It’s no fish ye’re buying. It’s men’s lives’ – Sir Walter Scott
Writing in the first part of the last century, Peter F Anson begins by describing the fishing industry as a whole, and then begins his survey of our coast in the far North-West – the Moray Firth.
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I don’t normally include things like this, but the Acquaskipper makes me laugh. Would do you really want to look this silly? How long is it possible to keep this kind of activity going? In fact, could you bear it if any of your friends saw you apparently mating with the product of a union between a bicycle and an ironing board? A rowing boat or a canoe, or even a surf board, would be so much more dignified, wouldn’t you say?
Ok, I want to have a go. But with no-one watching, ok?