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
Fowey boatbuilder Marcus Lewis builds a Mayflower dinghy. I don’t know how I missed this before – it might have been because the Traditional Maritime Skills people and I have been rather slow to make a connection. Still, they say say they’ve put me on their mailing list now. They have an excellent set of … Continue reading “Marcus Lewis builds a Mayflower dinghy”
Fowey boatbuilder Marcus Lewis wrote to say that he just had to send in these stunning photos of J Class yachts racing at Falmouth – and I’m very grateful he did. They have a great feel of photos taken in the early part of the last century – it’s partly the J Class boats … Continue reading “J Class yachts racing at Falmouth – photos by Marcus Lewis”
Fowey-based traditional boat builder Marcus Lewis sent over this clutch of photos of two new Fowey River dinghies that he built over the winter, and which were launched over the last couple of weeks FR 63 Kittiwake and FR 64 May both had their maiden voyages on the River Fowey and will be kept and … Continue reading “Two new Marcus Lewis Fowey River dinghies launched”