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
You may think you’ve seen varnish – but you might change your mind when you’ve seen Bill Prince’s astonishing collection of photos from the 2007 Keels & Wheels Concours D’Elegance & Auction at Seabrook in Texas. Somehow it’s all a bit different from the Beale Park Boatshow – there’s plenty of varnish there too, but … Continue reading “More astonishing American brightwork and chrome”
Regular visitors will know that intheboatshed.net likes to celebrate sheds and the quality of shedness from time to time. So here are some photos of a shed to swoon over – a boathouse belonging to friends of ours, guarded over by a group of goats. Julie and I think it’s probably Edwardian, but whatever it … Continue reading “A shed to swoon over”
Here are some curragh photos I took at the Beale Park Boat Show a couple of summers ago. I particularly like the one where the boat seems to be almost on the plane, and the one with the mythic Gaelic beauty casting her nets into the water… As before with my photos, if you click … Continue reading “Some curragh photos”