Gavin Atkin's weblog for the sort of people who like looking inside boat sheds. It's about old boats, traditional boats, boat building, restoration, the sea and the North Kent Coast
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Phil Bolger’s plywood canoe yawl This fascinating article from the Phil Bolger describes a hard-chine deep-vee section water-ballasted canoe yawl and makes many references to Albert Strange, George Holmes, William Garden and W P Stevens. I think it’s vintage Bolger, full of his kind of explanatory logic. It’s a damn shame the drawings … Continue reading “More Bolger – this time on canoe yawls”
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Ginny Jones of Martha’s Vineyard has suggested I share her Annual Christmas list – a review of books she’s read this year, and a couple of other items she believes we could all benefit from knowing about. Well, it may be too late for Christmas, but maybe one or two can be found … Continue reading “Ginny’s Christmas list – reviews of books we would have liked, and some we would not”
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Mark Shiner with his boat Arctic Whaler. Notice he isn’t wearing any unnecessarily nautical attire This entertaining and clearly genuine story of how a tiny problem can turn into an embarrassing ordeal appeared yesterday on the Dinghy Cruising Association’s excellent Yahoogroup ‘Openboat’. As many readers of intheboatshed.net will know, the Breton cap can … Continue reading “The curse of the Breton cap”