Category: Small boats

Matt Atkin photographs the village of Tai O, Hong Kong – part 2

For more of Matt’s photos of the Hong Kong fishing village of Tai O, click here. The round things spread with a pink material are part of the process of manufacturing shrimp paste.

Boat project starts at the Faversham Creek Trust’s Purifier Building

Alan Thorne starts a project at the Faversham Creek Trust's Purifier Building

 

My pal Alan Thorne is starting a project to build a small dinghy at his new workshop at the the Faversham Creek Trust’s Purifier Building. It’s only a start – but here’s one he built earlier (clue – I don’t mean he built the sailing barge Dawn you see in the background!).

Let’s hope this is that start of something really good.

One of Alan Thorne's small boats with the sailing barge in the background Alan Thorne dinghy

Simon Papendick starts building an Andrew Wolstenholme dinghy

Mai-Star dinghy

Mai-Star dinghy 2 Mai-Star dinghy 3

Here’s one to follow: now equipped with a new apprentice, Essex boat builder Simon Papendick is starting work on a new clinker-built dinghy for use as a tender – a shortened 3.1m version of boat designer Andrew Wolstenholme’s Coot in larch and with oak ribs.

I get the feeling that Simon hopes to make more of these in future.

Simon’s logging the whole thing at his new weblog The new dinghy build (Mai-Star).