George Cockshott’s sweet 12-foot dinghy

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International 12 Foot Dinghy

This morning a ‘pingback’ appeared in my comments from the Italian weblog SIBMA. I’m not entirely clear what a pingback is, but apparently it was meant to inform me that my post about the Cinderella rowing conversion had been picked up by the SIBMA site.

I took a moment to see what else SIBMA had been publishing lately. Well; that’s how WWW works, isn’t it?

Sure enough, Cinderella appeared at the top of the SIBMA blog for today, but just a couple of posts down I was amazed to see Continue reading “George Cockshott’s sweet 12-foot dinghy”

A classic duel between Fife yachts

The Truant

Currently being restored by the Classic Sailing Club, the Fife-built classic 8-metre racing yachts Ierne and Truant will compete in the 8 Metre World Championships in July, and then in a re-enactment of the Jura Duel.

The Duel was a famous challenge between the same two yachts in 1919, in which they raced from Crinan to Jura for a case of Continue reading “A classic duel between Fife yachts”

A Cinderella canoe adapted for rowing

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Cinderella, adapted for rowing by Martin Wellby

I can’t claim this is about any kind of traditional boat, but I think I can safely say that rowing is a traditional activity, that more people should do it and that this post is about a neat and inexpensive way of equipping yourself to do it. These photos show a very sweetly made canoe built to my Cinderella design that has been adapted in a couple of useful ways.

Designers don’t often like the changes people make to their designs, but in this case Continue reading “A Cinderella canoe adapted for rowing”