Category: Working boats

More boats from boatbuilder Nick Smith

Nick Smith boats

Bamboo Viper, a 20-foot launch with a 10 hp petrol vintage British inboard engine

Nick Smith has sent some more photos of his boats to share with intheboatshed.net readers. Thanks Nick!

Nick’s a member of the Wooden Boatbuilder’s Trade Association, and you can read more about him here:
Nick Smith at the WBTA website

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Nick Smith traditional clinker boatbuilder Nick Smith traditional clinker boatbuilder
Bumble at Beale Park (pictured here with Nick), and
at the Stuart Turner Centenary regatta last year

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Pilot gig Young Bristol launched with all due ceremony and pomp

Young Bristol

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Young Bristol

Win Cnoops of the Underfall Yard and the Slipway Collective has been in touch with some photos of the launch of the pilot gig we first saw in a half-built state at the Beale Park Boat Show. It certainly seems as if both the local dignitaries and rowers treated the event with all the reverence the beautifully built new boat deserved. Thanks Win!

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Bristol Channel pilot cutter and yacht Carlotta is being restored

Carlotta

Carlotta Carlotta

The Bristol Channel pilot cutter Carlotta was built in 1899 by William H Halford of Gloucester, England for the Cumberland Sea Fishery Committee for use in patrolling the fisheries in the Cumberland area. She was nevertheless built to the same scantlings, materials, design and layout as two pilot boats built previously by the Halford yard, St Bee’s and Brittannia.

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She was converted into a yacht in 1907, and from then on had an extraordinary history Click here to read more: Continue reading “Bristol Channel pilot cutter and yacht Carlotta is being restored”