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
Richard Palmer has just launched Barnacle Bill a crowd-funding project that he intends will will grow into a successful paper magazine. Fizzing with enthusiasm, he has just published his first story-packed online issue – which is free, and includes all sorts of good stuff including an article about the Mouseboat building that has been going on at Faversham lately.
And there’s even a half-price subs deal if you buy before Christmas…
Classic Sailor is a new magazine about traditional and classic boats from ex-Classic Boat editor Dan Houston and Peter Willis that promises rather more coverage of the traditional craft around our coast than we’ve often seen in Classic Boat in recent years.
The second issue is said to be in the shops now, and includes:
I think we should wish them well (even if their successful could mean there’s no need for poor little Intheboatshed.net)… Find out more here.
1894 Desvignes-built steam launch Pierette, photographed by Pete Williamson
Reader Pete Williamson has sent in some snaps of this year’s Beale Park Boat Show, including this shot of the wonderful steam launch Pierrette, and some entries for the kit section of the Water Craft amateur boatbuilding competition (Pete’s boat is the dark blue Selway-Fisher coble made from an Alec Jordan kit).
Also there’s something very unusual here: an entrant for the cordless challenge, in which entrants were asked to race each other around a course on the water using motor power derived from by battery driven cordless power tools. There are a couple of jolly pieces of video showing some of the entrants craft’ at Graham Neil’s weblog and at the Water Craft website. It makes you think, doesn’t it? At least some folks found a use for some old tools…
Finally, I’m not quite sure what the boat in this collection may be or who made it, but I remember being told that it contains a lot of old timber from somewhere, and thinking that the builder had done a nice job when I dropped in at the Barton Home Built Boat Rally meet at Barton Turf at Whitsun. I’ve posted some of my own photos of this craft taken at Barton below.
Thanks Pete!
