Shipwright in Training makes a long garboard

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Shipwright in Training is one of the most informative weblogs for old boat enthusiasts to be found anywhere. In this post, our hero makes a long garboard, and explains how he does it. It’s handsome, impressive stuff.

I’ve only one quibble – while I like the thought of his advice about doing one thing at a time and can see it working in the workshop, it’s surely impossible elsewhere. I speak, of course, as a parent, freelance journalist, house-holder, event organiser, amateur cook, musician, weblogger and…

Subscribe to comments – intheboatshed.net is now a little more social

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We’d love to have more comments and discussion here at intheboatshed.net – social networking is now such a big part of many people’s daily life, that we think regular intheboatshedders should also have better ways of communicating with each other.

A small step in that direction today is a gizmo that allows readers to subscribe to comments – when you make a comment now, you will be able to subscribe to particular comment streams, so that you know when comments are added to a post of particular interest. I’d guess this will be useful to anyone interested in knowing about responses to a comment they’ve made.

Another innovation that many will find easy to follow is the Recent comments box in the left-hand column. So get commenting, and come back to see what the others are saying!

And still another is the introduction of Gravatars – little 80 by 80 pixel images that you can use to represent yourself when you comment. It could be a photo or drawing of yourself, or your boat, or whatever – but please play nicely children! Go to http://gravatar.com to set yours up.

Why not tell us what you think of all this using the comments link below? Is it a step in the right direction – or is it pants?

Gavin

Video of the building of a Firefly

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A link to this clip of a Pathé film about the process of making hot moulded Firefly dinghies turned up at the Yahoogroup Openboat this week. Lovely stuff!

The link itself comes from this informative but messy page of material about the Fairey Company.