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
This little dinghy is up for auction on eBay, and is being sold by the folding, sectional and inflatable dinghy specialist supplier Nestaway, which is run by Ian Thomson.
My thanks to Nic Compton for passing this one along via his Facebook account.
Mighty stuff filmed by Seth Jones – just look at the huge rigs on those slender Chesapeake Bay log canoe hulls, the youngest of which are still old boats in anyone’s terms.
And the choice of music is so much preferable to the techy-synthy-guitary rock so often used to accompany these things. Surely old boats deserve something at least a little apt? Here we have a graceful old boat treated to a little graceful old music…
I can’t imagine whey anyone would not want to do this!