1930 sailing yawl, 1940 motor yacht and an early 60s wooden river cruiser on...
Run over to our boating bargains page to see these boats: •1930 27′ carvel 4 berth yawl Peggoty at Woodbridge •1940 38ft wooden motor yacht at Lymington •1963-ish Windboats 33 wooden river cruiser at...
View ArticleIlaut thole pin photos from Ben Crawshaw
Thole pin photographed by Ben Crawshaw A series of posts about the traditional Spanish ilaut have appeared at Ben Crawshaw’s weblog The Invisible Workshop over the past few days. Interestingly, they’re...
View ArticleThe Carvel Project, of Norway
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Sterns illustration from the Carvel Project The Carvel Project In 1999, the Hardanger Ship Preservation Center began a project to systematically review carvel boat building in...
View ArticleNick Smith’s handsome clinker-built boats at the Beale Park Thames Boat Show
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Nick Smith’s boatbuilding work at the Beale Park Thames Boat Show. If you ring him, this is now the preferred telephone number: 0778 6693370 I’ve had another frantically busy...
View ArticleSome more photos of a Blue Moon being built in Turkey
Newly built Blue Moon at Cem Gur’s boatyard in Turkey. As usual, click on the images for an enlarged photograph Fans of Thomas Gillmer’s Blue Moon design based on the traditional Falmouth quay punt...
View ArticleFogo Island Regatta – a ten-mile rowing race on the open sea
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Fogo Islanders hold an annual ten-mile rowing race in traditional carvel-built rowing boats. I recommend you take a moment to enjoy the videos, and the deteminedly traditional...
View ArticleCharlie Hussey builds a modified peapod
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Seapod the peapod, built by Charlie Hussey Here’s more news from Yvonne Green, principal of the Boat Building Academy at Lyme Regis – the third in a series about boats built by...
View ArticleTroy number 28 Red Beryl built by Marcus Lewis is launched at Fowey
[ad#intheboatshed-post] The launch of Troy number 28 at Fowey Red Beryl is a new Troy class yacht, built at Fowey in Cornwall by Marcus Lewis for a customer on the other side of the river in Polruan....
View ArticleNick Smith motor launch Lisa at sea
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Lisa at the mouth of the Yealm Nick Smith has just sent me these photos of motor launch Lisa at the mouth of the Yealm on the day she was launched. Read all about her here. If...
View ArticleThe carvel-built Mouseboat in Vietnam is launched and sailing well!
Miles away in a place where the weather is much warmer than it is here, Jacques Molinaris’ carvel-built Mouseboat called OSM has been launched and sailed for the first time from a Vietnamese beach. He...
View ArticleWill Stirling draws boatbuilding plans for a gentleman’s cutter of 1880
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Gentleman’s cutter Integrity in the style of an 1880 cruiser-racer, beautifully drawn by Will Stirling. Click on the thumbnails for a bigger image Here’s a lovely piece of work:...
View ArticleMarcus Lewis restores a Troy, and plans to make clinker dinghy drawings...
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Troy class yacht Ruby restoration Taking the lines from a 1947 9ft dinghy Down in Fowey in Cornwall, boatbuilder Marcus Lewis has been as busy as a bee, and a few days ago wrote...
View ArticleA mystery carvel-built sailing dinghy – who made it and did it belong to a...
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Can anyone help identify this boat bought recently by boatbuilder Kyle Abingdon? Here’s what he says about her: ‘Gavin. ‘Please can you and your readers help to identify this...
View ArticleNick Smith motor launch Bella – fitting the engine and shaft
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Nick Smith and colleagues has been fitting the engine to the motor launch Bella - it’s quite a process as these photos and his notes below reveal – and fitting the aft deck,...
View ArticleItchen Ferry Wonder in the Swale, photograph and comment by Dick Holness
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Itchen Ferry Wonder in the Swale, photographed by Dick Holness Most readers may not have noticed our pal East Coast Pilot author Dick Holness’s comment about the 160-year old...
View Article1863 lifeboat for sale on eBay – and two other lovely old ladies in need of...
Fowey boat builder Marcus Lewis has suggested I draw readers’ attention to the fact that the 1863-built lifeboat Friend of All Nations is currently for sale on eBay. I gather she was converted to make...
View ArticleLovely old 32ft yacht for sale in northern Germany – but who built her and when?
This lovely old gaff-rigged 32ft sailing yacht is for sale by a friend of reader and contributor Hans-Christian Rieck – but who built her and when? The owner has no documents relating to her...
View ArticlePaul Mullings’ photos from the Mahurangi Classic Yacht Regatta
Regular reader, commenter and contributor Paul Mullings has kindly sent over these photographs of the Mahurangi Classic Yacht Regatta ‘to bring some joy to you wintery world’. Mahurangi’s near...
View ArticleStirling and Son move into a new yard at Devonport, while Victorian racing...
On 1st March Stirling and Son Ltd acquired the lease for the No 1 covered slip at South Yard, Devonport, Plymouth. Sited adjacent to the dockyard wall, Slip No 1 is the oldest remaining covered slipway...
View ArticleNick Smith Clovelly picarooner hull for sale
West Country boatbuilder Nick Smith tells me that this carvel-built Clovelly picarooner hull constructed last year is for sale. Here’s the story from Nick: ‘I planked and framed this carvel hull a year...
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