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 ArticleOur first boatshed is a prince among sheds
This is Hollowshore Services, at the junction between Faversham and Oare creeks. Probably better known as Tester’s yard, Hollowshore Services specialises in smacks, and so this remote corner of Kent is...
View ArticleA sailor for all seasons
Charles Stock is a national treasure to those of us who sail around the coasts of the UK, particularly those of us on a small budget. Stock, you see, has sailed over 70,000 nautical miles in Shoal...
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 ArticleChrister Byström offers free plans for cute small round-bottomed boats
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Christer Byström’s Bridget Christer Byström is someone who has taken his boating dream in his own direction and made a success of it. A big theme has been very small sharp bowed...
View ArticleElla, a 12ft stitch-and-glue skiff
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Preliminary drawings for the Ella skiff I’ve decided to develop plans for a little 12ft stitch and glue skiff using Greg Carlson’s excellent Chine Hull Developer plywood hull...
View ArticlePanels drawings and coordinates for the 12ft flat-bottomed Ella rowing skiff
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Ella skiff, panel plotting, sheet 1 Tonight, I’ve finally managed to find some time to make a little more progress on the plans for the stitch and glue flat bottomed Ella rowing...
View ArticleFree plans for the intheboatshed.net Ella skiff now online and available to...
[ad#intheboatshed-post] 12ft length overall by 4ft beam, by 400lbs displacement, designed for stitch and glue construction using 1/4in or 3/8in 4ft by 8ft plywood If you build this boat PLEASE send me...
View ArticleA hydroplane at the Beale Park Boat Show
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Outboard hydroplane Twirler at the Beale Park Boat Show The exhibition at the Beale Park Boat Show features quite a few veteran motor boats of various kinds, and last year it...
View ArticleOur first half-million hits
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Thames barges on the Blackwater – one of the first photos to appear at intheboatshed.net It feels a little funny when I think of it, but some time in the next two or three days...
View ArticleZoe – princess of the Broads hire fleet
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Zoe sails by A few of the Norfolk Broads boats available for hire are celebrities in their own right, and one of my favourites is the 1897-built 27-footer Zoe, which is...
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 ArticleSunny skiff 14ft plywood flattie plans
[ad#intheboatshed-post] The Sunny skiff Another evening, another boat. Here’s a set of fairly basic but functional plans for building a 14ft lightweight flattie, the Sunny skiff. Download them here. I...
View ArticleTraditional boats of Ireland photographed by boatbuilder and weblogger...
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Heir Island lobster boat Rose and Galway hooker An Faoilean Heir Island lobster boat Saoirse Muireann owned byhistorian and author Cormac Levis The two gaffers in the upper...
View ArticleEdwin Schoettle on catboats, Gavin Atkin on what’s wrong with yachts and...
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Legendary catboat Silent Maid Edwin Schoettle’s classic Sailing Craft published in 1928 is a fabulous big old book of nearly 800 pages – so I hope no-one will mind me posting a...
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