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Priceless details and wonderful, if fuzzy, photos: Sailing Canoes: A Brief History Also, check Tim Gittner’s jolly archive, which contains lots of lines from old-fashioned canoes, and quite a lot from Uffa Fox in his usual hale and hearty style. http://www.intcanoe.org/iclife/history.html [ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] And finally, while we’re on this subject
Well, I have to say she tempts me, and that you’d have to be very hard-hearted not to love her! She’s a 1935 National 12, and has just been sold by Wooden Ships at Dartmouth. She’s just so sweet and with a new set of sails she could be ready for this summer… The National 12 … Continue reading “Temptation of a different kind, if you can stand it…”
Charles Stock is a national treasure to those of us who sail around the coasts of the UK, particularly those of us on a small budget. Stock, you see, has sailed over 70,000 nautical miles in Shoal Waters, a little gaff-rigged 16-ft centreboarder he built in 1963 using a hull designed by Uffa Fox … Continue reading “A sailor for all seasons”