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Home Built Boat Regatta meeting 2007

Home Built Boat Regatta meeting 2007 Wolstenholme Mallard Jackson’s Cracker

Adam Claridge’s Wolstenholme Mallard

Home Built Boat Regatta meeting 2007 Oughtred Mole Talpa Home Built Boat Regatta meeting 2007 Chris Partridge Wolstenholme Sprite Snarleyow Home Built Boat Regatta meeting 2007 Phil Oxborrow Selway Fisher Prospector Tonawanda

Graham Davies’ Oughtred Mole Talpa; Chris Partridge’s Wolstenholme Sprite Snarleyow; Phil Oxborrow’s Selway-Fisher Prospector Tonawanda

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Home Built Boat Regatta meeting 2007 Home Built Boat Regatta meeting 2007 Richard Rooth Oughtred Elf Inwe Home Built Boat Regatta meeting 2007 Hen Party

A general messabout-style beach photo; Richard Rooth’s Oughtred Elf Inwe; canoe Hen Party

Chris Perkins, the Watercraft award-winning builder of Scotch Mist, an award-winning Iain Oughtred Macgregor sailing canoe, has kindly sent me these photos of this year’s Home Built Boat Rally national meet at the Cotswold Water Park near Cirencester. It’s great to see a British version of the American messabout movement emerging, and perhaps we’ll see some more home boatbuilding in the UK as a result.

There’s an earlier post about the HBBR here: http://intheboatshed.net/…1st-and-2nd-september/

HBBR have a Yahoogroup at http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/uk-hbbr and a website at http://www.uk-hbbr.co.uk/uk .

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Monet’s paintings of traditional French rowing and sailing boats More photos from The Yachtsman - including a legendary actress and mistress to Royalty - racing sailing yacht Charmaine A challenge for boatbuilders: a sweet 10ft clinker-built double-ended skiff

Monet fishing boats; 100-year old racing yacht photos from The Yachtsman, and building plans for a double-ended Scottish clinker skiff

Nick Smith boats UK Home Built Boat Regatta meeting Dorma

Nick Smith’s clinker-built boats; Home Built Boat Regatta; Hillyard cruising yacht Dorma

Flying 10 Ella in Annabel Young Bristol

Uffa Fox Flying 10s at West Lancs; my daughter Ella sailing a Mirror; pilot gig Young Bristol

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A pilot gig at the Beale Park Boat Show

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Pilog gig

Pilot gig Pilot gig

Pilot gig made by the Slipway Cooperative. Click on the images for a nice big photo!

Pilot gig

Lines of the grandma of all racing pilot gigs, Trefry

Someone at the Wooden Boat Forum asked to see photos of the half-built racing pilot gig on show at the Beale Park Boat Show, so here are a few I took. Dig those neatly joggled ribs!

Pilot gigs are all built to the same lines as the venerable Trefry, which was built in 1838 and is still rowed today. The draughtsman appears to have spelt the old girl’s name differently to most people, so there’s no need for you lot to pick me up on that one!

The same group were selling a half-built Steve Redmond-designed Whisp. Continue reading “A pilot gig at the Beale Park Boat Show”