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”] Jantje performing ferrying duties on the River Vechte and Lake Vechte – note the handy way Jantje’s tiller is lowered when passing under a low bridge Jantje has been back to work raising money by helping to carry people to and from a local zoo after a freak summer storm raged through the … Continue reading “Jantje goes back to work – at the zoo”
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Paying the tanning mixture into Jantje’s sail; the sail before tanning; heating the tanning mixture. Click on the images for a larger photo In weblogging, one good thing often leads to another. Earlier posts about the restoration of a steilsteven tjalk named Jantje explained that she still had an old sail in good … Continue reading “Tanning Jantje’s linen sail the traditional way – Hermann Ostermann explains”
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Tjalk Jantje now, before she was restored, the celebration, and her sail arranged for tanning – and the pot used in tanning In Nordhorn in Germany near the border with Holland, poor Hans-Christian Rieck has broken his foot working on his organisation’s tjalk named Jantje. Having broken my own ankle last year he … Continue reading “Tjalk Jantje is back on the water and will soon have a new cotton rig”