Mike Carr builds an Apple Pie dinghy (free plans) and has fun…

I love his evident pleasure when he rows the little boat for the first time!

Download free plans for this handy little boat.

Old Sailortown, Sheerness

Old sailortown, or Bluetown, by the docks at Sheerness. An interesting place where you can still get a sense of what life there was like long ago – yet the row of officers’ houses and the burnt-out but once very elegant church is just yards away from what I sure was often noisy debauchery… That music hall looks cool too.

Jacket So Blue

An Irish song about a sailor, who was of course as true-hearted as can be!