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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Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Jay Benford Cruising Dory, Badger

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In 1978, Jay Benford expanded on his cruising experience in the 34 foot topsail ketch, Sunrise, to create a dory hulled cruising boat. Ther...
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Friday, 19 October 2012

Sacré Cinquo! – is the 505 really French?

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Amazingly the 505 dinghy, still one of the most exciting performance boats in the world, is close to celebrating its 60 th birthday. Is...
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Monday, 24 September 2012

Aile - a pretty pre-war keelboat

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A modern Aile in GRP, built by ACCF of Pont L'Abbe, Brittany  The Aile is a one-design keelboat, built originally by the Finnish A...
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