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
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Norm Lehman’s superb sailing canoe built to
Michael Storer’s Beth plans
Michael Storer’s flat-bottomed Beth sailing canoe looks wonderful to me – fast, fun, beguilingly good looking in photos on the water, and simple to build. So it’s nice to hear of a new one being built by Norm Lehman. See the Woodwork Forums thread, Norm’s Flickr photo collection, and of course the Michael’s own web page about Beth.
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Instructions on how to build a skin-on-frame Greenland kayak. If you’re interested in these boats, the chap responsible, Wolfgang Brinck, has a busy website that’s well worth exploring, and also a weblog.
Here’s what he says about himself:
‘I build skin on frame boats and make paddles and teach other people how to build skin boats and make paddles. Skin on frame technology may seem like retro technology but in fact is the wave of the future. There’s no technique for building small boats that is faster and uses fewer materials than skin on frame. It is the boat building method of choice in a world of dwindling resources.’
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Orchid Island canoes. Photo by Caroline Gluck
Dig these fabulous canoes from Orchid Island!