Tag: canoe yawl

The next BBA student launch day is on the 7th December – and you’re all invited!

Boat Building Academy student launch December 2011 invitation

Intheboatshed.net readers (and everyone else, to be honest!) are warmly invited to the Boat Building Academy’s class of March 2011 student launch at 2pm on the 7th December.

The boats include:

  • 13ft cold-moulded motor launch designed by Andrew Wolstenholme
  • 17ft clinker-built pilchard larker
  • 10ft foam-sandwich composite dinghy
  • 19ft epoxy-ply Caledonian Yawl (designed by Iain Oughtred)
  • 15ft West Greenland kayak
  • 14ft strip planked ‘Cassy’ canoe yawl (designed by George Holmes)
  • 14ft 1in strip-planked catboat
  • 14ft stitch and glue-built speedboat (designed by BBA instructor Mike Broome)
For building photos of these boats, click here.

See more photos from last year’s December launch:

Two Albert Strange yachts for sale at the ASA website

Leona designed by Albert Strange, built 1906 Sea Harmony designed by Albert Strange, built 1937

Leona and Sea Harmony – click on the thumbnails for bigger photos

Two very special Albert Strange yachts are advertised for sale over at the Albert Strange Association website – Sea Harmony, a 1936-built 33ft version of Strange’s 1917 Venture design, and 24ft canoe yawl Leona, built in 1906 to Strange design number 63.

Perhaps the prettiest yacht I ever seen photographed, Sea Harmony is in New England, while I believe Leona is still in her home area of the Humber, where it would be nice to think she will stay.

 

Tiernan Roe starts work on a Karl Stambaugh Catbird 16 small cruising sharpie

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Tiernan Roe, South-West Ireland, boatbuilder, John Atkin, Ninigret, Wooden Boat magazine, Karl Stambaugh, Catbird 16, Galway Bay, WP Stephens, canoe yawl, roeboats, weblog

It may not look like much at the moment, but this is the very beginning of a new project for Tiernan Roe. Tiernan is a South-West Ireland-based boatbuilder who has recently received a huge amount of positive coverage for a beautiful John Atkin-designed Ninigret 22 he built for a client.

The acclaim has come from quite a variety of sources, including the hard to please Wooden Boat magazine.

Here’s what Tiernan has to say:

‘Just thought you might like to know what I’m up to at the moment. I’ve started building a Karl Stambaugh-designed Catbird 16 cruising sharpie for a client to use on Galway Bay.

It’s to be a ‘sailaway’, as they say – so the client will be doing the rigging and painting. Oh joy!

I’ve attached a few photos of setting up the frames, and I’m hoping to do a bit of a stop motion video when I’m finished and when I get the time.

I hope all is well with you. As always I’m enjoying intheboatshed – only last night reading I was reading about canoe yawls in WP Stephens’ book, and now all I have to do is find a client who wants one.

Anyway if you have any queries etc. don’t hesitate to contact me.

Regards,

Teirnan’

Click here for Tiernan’s weblog. For  information about Karl Stambaugh’s Catbird 16, click here.