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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I promised a few more of my brother Matt’s photos from Hanoi, and here they are. You can see the earlier post here.
There’s an interesting thread on Vietnamese boats at the Woodenboat Forum and an English language website devoted to the boats of Vietnam here.
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Norman’s Ella skiff takes shape
Norman Fuller up in Norwich is clearly having fun building the first Ella skiff rowing boat built to my free boatbuilding plans. Thanks for the photos Norman!
For more on the Ella plywood skiff plans including both rowing boat and sailing boat version, and a set of drawings to make a model of the little 12ft boat, click here.
PS – We’ve cruised past the milestone of our first 1,000,000 hits – but I was so busy running a music festival, I barely noticed! Now, the question is how do you celebrate racking up a number with quite so many zeros?
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The big news here is that Water Craft magazine is publishing an exciting series of articles about the Light Trow – two by the remarkable Light Trow pioneer builder and adventurer Ben Crawshaw, and one by me about the boat itself.
This has prompted me to produce a Mark 2 version designed for plywood and epoxy stitch and glue construction and with a few modifications based on Ben’s experiences. I’ll publish the plans in a few weeks, probably to coincide or shortly precede the upcoming articles.
As always with these things, it’s been fascinating and hugely time consuming, so I hope the home boatbuilding community takes the new boat to their hearts!
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