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Heritage Coast Sailing and Rowing start building their first lapstrake Mackinaw boat

Michigan-based Heritage Coast Sailing and Rowing members are constructing a 23ft lapstrake-built Mackinaw boat, with the aim of encouraging sailing and rowing on Lake Huron using the regional boat type. The project weblog is here. The Heritage Coast Sailing and Rowing project draws inspiration from the success of Scottish Coastal Rowing, and plans to organise similar rowing … Continue reading “Heritage Coast Sailing and Rowing start building their first lapstrake Mackinaw boat”

Alec Jordan’s beautiful model of Iain Oughtred’s new Scottish rowing skiff

[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Alec Jordan’s model of Iain Oughtred’s new design, the St Ayles skiff. Note the liberal use of clothes pegs – Alec’s using pretty well the same building method he would in the real thing! Jordan Boats proprieter Alec Jordan has built this model of Iain Oughtred’s St Ayles skiff, the boat at the … Continue reading “Alec Jordan’s beautiful model of Iain Oughtred’s new Scottish rowing skiff”

Iain Oughtred draws the boat that will bring coastal rowing races back to Scotland

[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Iain Oughtred’s initial drawings for the St Ayles skiff The Scottish Coastal Rowing Project is a new initiative intended to encourage boat building and rowing racing in Scottish coastal communities. Based at the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther, its plan is to re-start the intercommunity rowing competition that for many years was a … Continue reading “Iain Oughtred draws the boat that will bring coastal rowing races back to Scotland”