If you’ve ever wondered what a superbly bouyant Colin Archer looks like when sailing in the weather for which it was designed, now’s your chance to see one on YouTube. It’s bloody marvellous!
My thanks to Jim Van Den Bos for pointing it out.
Category: wooden boat
Win an eight-week BBA boat building course in the Gail McGarva workshop raffle
There’s always something going off down at the Boat Building Academy, and this time it’s a raffle to raise money for a permanent workshop for Gail McGarva. You could win an 8-week BBA boatbuilding course…
The Academy folks are very keen to keep Gail in Lyme – as well as having superb woodworking and teaching skills Gail also manages to involve a wide selection of the local community. For example, when she was building a lerret recently she organising a ‘knees-up’ in which a widely disparate group of people came together to help make knees; the group ranged from royal warrant holders to socially excluded young adults. See the photo above.
It’s a mark of the BBA’s enthusiasm that it is prepared to raffle its courses which – a £1 ticket could win you any of the following:
- First prize: an 8-week woodworking course and £100 towards materials for a personal project piece
- Second prize: a 5-day traditional wooden boat building or wooden boat restoration short course
- Third prize: work for a day with Gail in her workshop
For more information see the BBA’s raffle page. Tickets can be bought on line or by ringing the Academy’s office.
Lovely old 32ft yacht for sale in northern Germany – but who built her and when?
This lovely old gaff-rigged 32ft sailing yacht is for sale by a friend of reader and contributor Hans-Christian Rieck – but who built her and when?
The owner has no documents relating to her construction and would love to know more if anyone can help. Is she a Hillyard dating from 1930, as the owner suspects?
Read more here, but if you’re German language is a bit rough, stand ready to use Google Translate.