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Here are a few more photos of this year’s Beale Park Thames Boat Show. It’s an event that always serves up a few surprises, and this year’s exhibits included UK Home Built Boat Rally member Tim O’Connor’s well appointed and slippery-looking home-designed double-ended camper powered by a Hobie drive. Great, great work Tim! To find out more about … Continue reading “Expect the unexpected at the Beale Park Thames Boat Show”
There’s no question about it. I went to the Beale Park Thames Boat Show on the wrong day – the Friday during which the show had to be cancelled because of the rain – and it meant I only managed to bag a few photos, and that quite a few people I would have enjoyed … Continue reading “Beale Park 2012 – in the rain (it got better after I left!)”
These dreamy shots taken by Gemma Toussaint come from the Iain’s Clan Weekend, a meeting for builders and users of Iain Oughtred’s boats that organised earlier this month by Bert Van Baar of the De Bootbouwschool at Uitgeest, Holland. Readers may be entertained by this short video by Frank Vergeer – Home Built Boat … Continue reading “Photos from the Iain Oughtred boat weekend in Holland”