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
The schooner Bluenose in flight…
A celebrated racer as well as working boat fishing the Grand Banks, she was launched at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on March 26, 1921 and sank close the Haiti in 1946. Read all about her here.
Readers on my side of the pond may be interested to know that a replica, the Bluenose II, was built in the early 1960s, and is still afloat, between refits.
My thanks to intheboatshed.net regular Hans-Christian Rieck for pointing out this dreamy piece about the Costa Brava before the big numbers of tourists arrived.
Fowey boatbuilder Marcus Lewis builds a Mayflower dinghy.
I don’t know how I missed this before – it might have been because the Traditional Maritime Skills people and I have been rather slow to make a connection. Still, they say say they’ve put me on their mailing list now.
They have an excellent set of videos on Youtube, including another timelapse presentation, this time of the building of the Grayhound.