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Xebec pirate ship
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My canoe sailing and building pal Jim van den Bos sent me this link from The Times newspaper yesterday:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article1449736.ece
Here’s the TS Pelican’s website, which tells the story of her interesting rig; see also this article by Philip Goode, the designer involved in the TS Pelican project: http://www.weatherlysquareriggers.com
The whole thing led me to speculate how Continue reading “Windward-sailing Barbary pirates”
This interesting and unusual little boat caught my eye at the Newson’s website. A label says it’s a 12-ft flat bottomed canoe, though I imagine our American cousins would call it a pirogue.
It’s not exactly traditional, but it has been around for quite a while: an old licence plate suggests it was last used on the Thames in 1962. Now cleaned up and re-varnished its ready to be used again.
Can anyone say whether the builders are still around, and has anyone else got anything like it?
See the Packboat at Newson’s website here; also, while you’re there take a peek at the Maurice Griffiths Golden Hind they’ve begun to offer after buying the moulds last year here.
