Canoe and Boatbuilding for Amateurs
[ad#intheboatshed-post] “The number of boating men who find pleasure merely in sailing a boat is small compared with those who delight not only in handling, but as well in planning, building, improving...
View ArticleAnother visit to the Thames
I was lucky enough to have a boating father, and I learned early to love rowing on the Thames, picnicing under weeping willows and watching the world go by, as my dad did all the rowing work while the...
View ArticleThe Beale Park Thames Boat Show – and another shed
I was thinking today about the Beale Park Boat Show of 2005, and it occurred to me that some of you might be interested in some of the photos I brought back. Chuck Leinweber posted some of them on his...
View ArticleA great find at the Eventide Owners Group website
Here’s a link I’ve been looking forward to putting up about another Maurice Griffiths favourite, Idle Duck, which by chance spent much of the summer sitting on a barge bottom a few feet from our own...
View ArticleVintage Wooden Boat Association
The Association has over 900 registered boats ranging from classic racing dinghies to wooden ships. Membership extends world wide and there are a number of Regional Sections holding regular meetings;...
View ArticleAn elegant electric canoe from 100 years ago
To bookmark a post, double-click on the headline, let the post open, and bookmark Gena is a fine electric canoe built more than 100 years ago, and restored in the late 1980s by her owner Robin...
View ArticleThe new James Caird at the Beale Park Thames Boat Show this weekend
[ad#intheboatshed-post] The new James Caird, photographed a few days ago If you’re wondering what to do this weekend – perhaps now’s the time to decide, for Friday sees the first day of the three-day...
View ArticleWater Craft boatbuilding comp winners 2009
Nick Paull’s Hazy Days, winner of the ‘most professional’ category of the 2009 Water Craft boatbuilding competition. It was built to Steve Killing’s Prospector Canadian canoe. Click on the photos for...
View ArticleDuncan Sclare pours 19ft Gartside cutter keel
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Duncan Sclare pours the lead keel for his 19ft Paul Gartside-designed cutter. Click on the thumbnails for larger images Duncan Sclare in County Mayo, Ireland has an advantage...
View ArticleThames double skiff for sale
[ad#intheboatshed-post] I fouled up badly at the Beale Park Thames Boat Show: my mistake was to believe the weather forecast and went to the show on the day it rained most. On the following day it was...
View ArticleChebacco boat designed by Phil Bolger, built by Academy ex-student Connie Mense
[ad#intheboatshed-post] One exhibit at the Beale Park Thames Boat Show made the case that the recently deceased designer Phil Bolger should be remembered for his very pretty boats as well as his boxy...
View ArticleA traditional Hebridean lugger built by Harris boatbuilder John Macaulay
[ad#intheboatshed-post] One of the treats of the Beale Park Thames Boat Show was seeing one of John Macaulay’s traditional Hebridean skiffs full of old-fashioned boatbuilding features. Note the short...
View ArticleSteamers and veteran motorboats and craft – photos from the Aussie Wooden...
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Intheboatshed.net regular Jeff Cole has sent us a disk of splendid photos from the Australian Wooden Boat Festival at Hobart, Tasmania some weeks ago. Jeff has kindly sent us...
View ArticleA dockside stroll at the Australian Wooden Boat Festival, Hobart
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Some more photos from Intheboatshed.net regular Jeff Cole’s disk of splendid photos from the Australian Wooden Boat Festival at Hobart, Tasmania. Looking at Jeff’s shots of...
View ArticlePaul Connor’s photos from the Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival at the Centre...
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Paul Connor has also kindly sent us a set of photos of a festival dockside stroll – this time from the Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival at the Centre for Wooden Boat’s base in...
View ArticleNick Smith at the Beale Park Thames Boat Show
A few more photos from this year’s Beale Park Thames Boat Show this year – this time showing some more photos of traditional boatbuilder Nick Smith’s motor launch build from earlier this year, Lisa,...
View ArticleGood Wood Boat clinker built dinghies at this year’s Beale Park Boat Show
Good Wood Boat will be showing two clinker built dinghies – a new National Redwing and a restored Tideway – at the 2011 Beale Park Boat Show. Redwing R249 designed by Uffa Fox in 1938 was built by Good...
View ArticleThe rule of the road told in verses
SS Metapan sunk by a collision withthe SS Iowan; image from Popular Mechanics magazine published in 1915. Image placed on the Wikimedia by Pmcyclist I found the following useful navigation rhymes in a...
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