Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Bob's Wherry

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Back in 2014 Bob was building a classic Whitehall/Wherry , well it's finished and looking mighty fine Bob reports that she's a ...
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Sunday, 28 August 2016

The Junior that came before the senior

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Image: J-Klubben You might think that a boat widely known by the name “Junior Folkboat” must be a newer design derived from the famous ...
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Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Tricorn - An early all-GRP cruising dinghy

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The Tricorn dinghy was designed by Illingworth and Primrose in 1962. Since theirs was one of the most famous names in offshore racing y...
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Friday, 8 May 2015

Cornish Cormorant - Tosh

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This is my own and favorite dinghy Tosh, built by the original Cornish Crabbers down in Rock across the Camel estuary from Padstow, in 1983....
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015

Ingrid 38 - Spiritus

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William Atkin's study on the Colin Archer type, the Ingrid 38 has featured on 1001 Boats previously  , and as one of my favorite cruisin...
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Sunday, 28 December 2014

Tidewater Cutter - Brego

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The Tidewater is one of Maurice Griffiths designs, a cutter of 30 feet the original was mentioned in the famous journalist and designers boo...
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Sunday, 14 September 2014

Lafayette's frigate "Hermione"

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This week, at Rochefort in France, a replica of the 1778 frigate “Hermione” began her sea trials. The Hermione was a typical light wa...
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Sunday, 13 July 2014

Whitehall Build

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I received an interesting email and photo's from Bob the other day, about a Whitehall build, but let me tell it in Bob's own words. ...
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Friday, 30 May 2014

Cara 16

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Very few of these craft were built during the 1980's to a design by John Shuttleworth and built by Amber Boats. A classic looking gaff d...
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Monday, 3 February 2014

Stevenson Projects "Weekender"

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This is an example of the Stevenson Projects "Weekender"  built by Charlie Duerr of Jackson,  Wyoming, USA. Charlie explains...
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Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Joshua

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Pascal sent an email recently saying he was returning to Europe in his Joshua class yacht named Primadonna, from the photographs he sent me ...
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Saturday, 2 February 2013

Cruising Tug

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Peter Leenhouts of the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, Port Hadlock which is located on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, n...
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Wednesday, 26 December 2012

Wooden twin screw pleasure yacht

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An update on the recent Bursledon Blog  post about motor yacht Vagabond , It was almost exactly a year ago that I spotted Vagabond ashore...
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