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[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] The Boat Building Academy at Lyme Regis has organised a 10-day West Greenland kayak building course starting on the 27th September. The instructor is Lars Herfeldt, who first paddled a kayak in the 1960s and was the first to import British sea kayaks to Germany. In the 1980s he started making paddles and … Continue reading “Kayak building at the Boat Building Academy, Lyme, in September”
(Above) Boat Building Academy alumnus Charlie Hussey’s latest project. She was launched in 1892. (Below) Another Clyde 17/19 lugger, Harlequin, in flight Principal Yvonne Green writes from the Boat Building Academy at Lyme Regis: ‘Hi Gavin, ‘Thought you might be interested that Charlie Hussey (the student who built Seapod the Peapod during the last academic … Continue reading “News from the Boat Building Academy, Lyme Regis, and from Charlie Hussey”
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Photos of the new pilot gig Rebel, built at the Boat Building Academy – in the first Gail McGarva sits under the boat she project-managed. As usual, click on the thumbnails for much larger photos Lyme Regis’s well known Boat Building Academy agreed to build a pilot gig for the newly formed Lyme … Continue reading “The Boat Building Academy builds a gig for the new Lyme Regis Gig Club”