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
It happens every year. Just at the moment when our English winter starts to get me down, someone sends over a couple of fabulous photos that make me sigh and wish I could be somewhere else, and out on the water. This time it’s the turn of Jeff Cole, intheboatshed.net regular (see these posts) who … Continue reading “Veteran and vintage dinghies sailing in the Australian sun”
According to Google Analytics, Intheboatshed attracted 690,595 pageviews during the year (468,612 uniques) – and the most popular posts and pages were those offering free plans. Free stuff is usually popular, I guess. Next in popularity after the plans posts comes David Dimbleby’s TV show about sailing his Heard 28 named Rocket to various ports and … Continue reading “The year at Intheboatshed.net”
This 1935 history of sailing canoes originally published by the American Canoe Association is well worth a look. It has been republished online by the editors of the excellent Skinny Hull magazine. (There’s another link to this document at the Dragonfly Canoe Works website (I’m guessing this may be the original source). The photos in the … Continue reading “Sailing Canoes – a brief history, published in 1935”