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
Built to Iain Oughtred’s Macgregor design, Scotch Mist was the winner of the 2007 Watercraft boat building competition Scotch Mist’s builder Chris Perkins built his beautiful sailing canoe to Iain Oughtred’s Macgregor design in an attempt to create a boat he could launch and recover on his own. The name came from a definition in … Continue reading “Gorgeous Oughtred sailing canoe wins 2007 Watercraft boatbuilding prize”
I’ve been looking at the Dixon-Price Publishing catalogue after receiving a nice email from the brains behind the outfit, Kendall Hanson. I think there are two books that probably deserve particular attention – and which I would certainly like to read myself. The first is A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe, the first … Continue reading “A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe”