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Take a look at the boats to be launched by this year’s BBA students:

• 13ft larch traditional clinker rowing and sailing boat, designed at the Academy
• 12ft ply-on-frame Glen-L Tiny Might runabout with inboard engine
• Restored 16ft 1954 Looe hire boat, a traditional clinker launch
• 14ft 9in glued clinker Whitehall rowing skiff, built from a design supplied by the Mystic Seaport Museum
• Folding kayak – aluminium frame with inflatable sponsons and PVC skin (no link as yet)
• 14ft 5in Iain Oughtred gunter-rigged sailing dinghy
• 15ft 9in Eric Hvalsoe designed HV 16 traditional rowing and sail clinker-built boat planked in western red cedar
• 13ft GRP motor boat refit
• 16ft 6in Iain Oughtred Elfyn modern plywood Norwegian Faering)
• New coastal rowing skiff concept by BBA instructor Justin Adkin designed by Phil Morrison

The Boat Building Academy is due to launch the latest fleet of student boats into the harbour at Lyme Regis on the 13th June, and the public are invited help celebrate the achievements of those attending courses.

As usual the students have come from all over the EU and all walks of life to join the academy’s 38-week long course: among the student group are three people retraining after leaving the forces, a graphic designer from Switzerland and two people who have been working on super yachts cruising in exotic places, but who now want to settle down.

The boats are as diverse as the students and include one best described as a ‘hot rod’, a restoration of a 1950’s Looe hire boat, traditional clinker, glued clinker and strip-planked sailing boats, and an exciting and unusual coastal rowing boat.

The students will gather at the academy at about 1.30pm to walk the boats down to the harbour, where they will be launched one by one.

For information, see our website www.boatbuildingacademy.com.