Category: wooden boat

Adrian Morgan builds an Oughtred Tammie Norrie

Iain Oughtred-designed Tammie Norrie built by Adrian Morgan of Viking Boats Iain Oughtred-designed Tammie Norrie built by Adrian Morgan of Viking Boats

Columnist and boat builder Adrian Morgan of Viking Boats has been putting together a handsome Iain Oughtred-designed Tammie Norrie that is destined for a Highland estate. In fact, it’s one of two lug-rigged dinghies ordered for use guests and family on a huge private loch.

The timber is old slow-grown Scots pine from Her Majesty the Queen’s estate at Balmoral and larch from the Oban area, with oak knees etc. He’s used larch too for the steamed timbers, as he believes it is longer lasting and more supple than oak, and also for the garboards.

Read all about it on Adrian’s engaging weblog The Trouble with Old Boats.

Delivering the mail by boat

Postman using a boat to deliver mail at Wisbech Postman using boat to deliver the mail at Poole, Dorset

 

Postman using boat to deliver mail at Badluarach in Inverness

Boat-borne mail delivery at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, Poole in Dorset and Badluarach in Inverness. Photos used with permission of the British Postal Museum & Archive

These charming photos were found by intheboatshed reader and epoxy ply boat building guru Chris Perkins, who is now well known for his award-winning builds of Iain Oughtred-designed boats and for his involvement (as a boatbuilder) in Scottish Coastal Rowing.

They come from a Flickr set put up by the British Postal Museum & Archive.

Chris tells me he found them on a day when the wind and rain put him off making the journey to the little green boat building shed in his garden. Thanks Chris!

A charming little Auray punt on the Gulf of Morbihan

Small Auray punt on the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany Small Auray punt on the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany

 

Small Auray punt on the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany Small Auray punt on the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany Small Auray punt on the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany

Small Auray punt on the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany Small Auray punt on the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany Small Auray punt on the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany

It’s nice to see Auray punts still in use on the Southern Brittany coast more than a century since British yachtie Claude Worth first recorded them and suggested they would make good tenders. This one seems to be set up for both rowing and sculling.

Click here for a post on Worth’s observations, and here for more on Auray punts generally.

Julie’s 5ft 2in tall – which I guess makes this cute little child’s boat about 6ft long, or marginally longer.

What about that Frisian cow dazzle paint job though? Does it make it seem longer or shorter?