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”] Reader Larry Henry got in touch the other day to alert me to this video on YouTube promoting photographer Alexis Andrews’ two books (volumes I and II) celebrating the Carriacou sloops of Dominica. By January I expect to watch this daily, just wishing I could be anywhere that’s warm and bathed in the … Continue reading “Carriacou sloops on Youtube”
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] A Thames barge in the Swin, by Frank Mason. Click on the picture for a bigger image I’ve put this drawing of a Thames barge up this morning in honour of a group of pals who as I write are holidaying off the Essex Coast in the Thames barge named Centaur. The sun’s … Continue reading “Carr and Mason on the Thames Barge”
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] ‘The Leigh bawleys which form the subject of Mr Mason’s drawing are a type that it is indeed a pity to see vanishing from the Thames Estuary and giving place to a class of modern motor craft, less pleasing in design, where sails are but auxiliary to power.’ Frank Carr describes the history … Continue reading “Frank Carr writing on bawleys”