Home Built Boat Regatta meeting, Cirencester, 1st and 2nd September

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UK Home Built Boat Regatta

UK Home Built Boat Regatta meeting UK Home Built Boat Regatta meeting UK Home Built Boat Regatta meeting

Some snaps from previous UK HBBR meetings – Breton caps appear to be de rigeur!

I’ve been asked to tell you about the September UK Home Built Boat Regatta. Despite the name, it’s not really a regatta but is more like an American-style messabout, as many people will recognise from the photos.

The HBBR people are a loosely organised group who like to get together to discuss boatbuilding, sail their home-built boats and generally swap hints and tips. The next meeting is their National Rally at the Cotswold Water Park, on 1st and 2nd September.

I’d go if I wasn’t already booked to play my duet concertina in Suffolk. A range of canoes and small day boats are expected, including designs by Iain Oughtred, Paul Fisher, Conrad Natzio and Andrew Wolstenholme. The event is very informal with no trade stands and no catering (bring a picnic!), but there are basic camping facilities available on site. Just go along and bring your boat Continue reading “Home Built Boat Regatta meeting, Cirencester, 1st and 2nd September”

Traditional boat construction and part naming

Boat construction and part naming

The construction of a traditional clinker- built Naval boat, as presented in an Admiralty manual of 1923. Check out the groovy pillar supporting the seat!

Boat construction and part naming Boat construction and part naming Boat construction and part naming

Boat construction and part naming

I think these pages from the Admiralty’s 1937 Manual of Seamanship make up the best quick description of the construction of boats of the time and the names of the various parts I have yet seen. Continue reading “Traditional boat construction and part naming”

Hot-moulded 1940s and 50s Fairey dinghies at the Beale Park Boat Show

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Cold-moulded Fairey dinghies

Cold-moulded Fairey dinghies Cold-moulded Fairey dinghies

Cold-moulded Fairey dinghies Cold-moulded Fairey dinghies

Photos of a couple of hot-moulded 1940s and 50s Fairey Marine dinghies that turned up at the Beale Park Boat Show. The little paddler divides into two to fit in a car boot 

Here are some photos from the Beale Park Boat Show for those who like curiosities. Once popular, Fairey’s hot-moulded dinghies built in the post-War era usually to Uffa Fox’s designs are rarely seen now. Plug the terms ‘Fairey’ and ‘Uffa Fox’ into the search gizmo at the upper left for intheboatshed.net posts on related topics.

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