Category: Small boats

Weblogs about traditional boats, restoration and boatbuilding

Tonight, I thought I should take a cue from Chine bLog and others, and write a little about some of the other weblogs that I link to in one of the panels on the right-hand side of intheboatshed.net.

I’m going to do this partly out of politeness, as some of them have kindly linked to these pages, and I’m always grateful for any help I get in preventing my weblog sink into WWW anonymity. More than that, however, I’m hoping to show you some material of genuine interest out there.

The Invisible Workshop

The Invisible Workshop is a great favourite at the moment, not least because Continue reading “Weblogs about traditional boats, restoration and boatbuilding”

Ben Crawshaw’s Light Trow makes progress

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This isn’t a proper post – it’s just me taking a late-night opportunity to crow about the boat that Ben Crawshaw’s building to my Light Trow design. Take a peek at the last photo in his set in this post.

I’m getting very excited, as although the design has had quite a lot of attention, this is the first of these boats to be built.

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Tiphys treatise – the canoeists’ bible of 1883

Tiphys’ - the bible of canoeing

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While I’m thinking about canoes, here are some more killer links made available via the Web by Craig O’Donnell, a man whose Cheap Pages have become a point of pilgrimage for those fascinated by the canoeing Victorians and Edwardians.

I’d like to start with Practical Canoeing by Tiphys. This really is a gem – a reasonably light and short piece of material to read, but packed with details about hulls, rigging, fittings and the rest.

Now check out the range of Continue reading “Tiphys treatise – the canoeists’ bible of 1883”