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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Almost all my life, I’ve held the view that anyone who can make a real clinker-built boat that doesn’t leak must be some sort of magician, and a post on the weblog A Shipwright in Training has rather confirmed my opinion. This bloke is a real woodworker and knows ten times what I know – and yet he says he feels humbled by a Whitehall. If he feels humbled, I’m much worse…
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Here I sit in chilly, laid-up England, and for a few minutes I watch YouTube clips like this of Gary Dierking sailing a proa in the warm, far-off antipodes. Would some kind soul please send me there right now? I could write a very nice review, or whatever might be required to persuade someone to pay my fare!
Of course, Amazon has Gary Dierking’s latest book on sale.
In the meantime, don’t forget to buy my book for your favourite budding boatbuilder. Now there are no Wiis left to buy anywhere in the country, my little book must be in with a chance to be the present of the year. Have I mention that four purchasers over at the www.amazon.com site have given it five-star reviews? No? Well I have now!
For more from Gary, go to his website http://gary.dierking.net.
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This series provides a [ad name=”intheboatshed-post”]fascinating to the way the British in general saw the world a generation before my generation was born. It’s also of great interest, I guess, to anyone whose interest in boatbuilding stretches to shipbuilding, and the maritime context of the early 20th Century – which is after all the era in which many of the boats we admire and treasure were first built.
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