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
Turf boat and thatched boathouses, Hickling
Hickling Broad is one of my favourite places, and here are some links that might help to explain why:
Norfolk Wildlife Trust, Hickling Broad
Could one hope to hear a bittern when moored here?
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My significant other Julie found a great new weblog today. Roach’s Adventures is about a refurb job being carried out on a Norman Dallimore yacht that seems to have been built to ‘design 295’.
In fact Roach bears a close resemblance to a boat that the Gweek Quay Boatyard has been restoring, and which it exhibited at the 2007 London Boat Show, which I didn’t go to this year. Still, I bet she was a sight for sore eyes for people made weary by the blizzard of white plastic and lurid sailboarding gear…
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The Wooden Boatbuilders Trade Association has set up a slick new website, http://www.wbta.co.uk , that’s far easier to navigate than the old site, looks a lot better, and includes an easy to use list of members and their websites.
Although it hasn’t got a great deal of content yet, it promises some nice new features, including a quarterly newsletter Soundings. I’ve already signed up for it, and look forward to learning more.
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