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Ultrasimple Boatbuilding is now on sale!

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The book that has filled my life for the last 18 months is finally published. Naturally, I think about this event in much the same was as I would regard having to gybe in a strong wind – but there’s no going back now. Having done the best I can to make sure everything’s as tight and ship-shape as can be, I’ll just have to grit my teeth, pray the book gets a favourable reception, duck my head and concentrate on following the best course out of the gybe.

Readers might be interested the blurb published by Amazon, and presumably provided by International Marine. I hope the book and I live up to it!

Ultrasimple Boat Building (Paperback) by Gavin Atkin

The first complete how-to guide for building the latest generation of quick and easy boats

In Ultrasimple Boatbuilding, renowned designer Gavin Atkin shows you how to create elegant, seaworthy plywood boats with a minimum of time, experience, and expense. Using clearly written and illustrated step-by-step instructions, Atkin explains the basics of stitch-and-glue construction, tools, materials, shop safety, and more, as he helps you choose and build the simple boat of your dreams.

Gavin Atkin is known around the world for his minimalist boat designs. His award-winning creations, including the celebrated Mouse, have been built by countless boat enthusiasts.

Buy it here: Ultrasimple Boat Building: 17 Plywood Boats Anyone Can Build

Ships that Saved the Empire – the third instalment

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A shipyard image from The Ships that Saved the Empire. I particularly like the figures high up on the deck. I suppose they would have seemed to be performing some kind of wild dance in real life also. Click on the pictures for larger, clearer images

I couldn’t resist including this image of a sweet little tank engine!

Ships that Saved the Empire is a children’s book, and I’d suggest a classic piece of contemporary propaganda. If you would like to know more about this history of the era, this may help rather more:
The First World War, Second Edition: A Complete History

This should tell an interesting story too:
Warships of the World to 1900

Follow this link for more Ships that Saved the Empire!

The Ships that Saved the Empire

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We’re moving house in a few days, and with some serious illness in the family also to contend with I’m not going to be able to maintain the usual range of posts over the next few days – so I thought I’d show you some pages of an extraordinary children’s book I picked up in a charity shop in Somerset recently.

Once again, it offers a glimpse into a very different era that wasn’t so very long ago. I hope you enjoy this material as much as I do.

Steam enthusiasts should look out for illustrations of steam-powered paddle-wheel tugs a little later, and also a smattering of shipyard tank engines.

As always, click on each image for a larger and clearer view.

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible, I promise!

Gavin gmatkin@gmail.com