More of Matt Atkin’s photos of the boats and ships of Hong Kong’s harbours
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Here’s some more of my brother Matt Atkin’s striking photos from Hong Kong - to see an earlier post click here. Once again, I don’t think either of us can say much about what...
View ArticleAn extraordinary auction of amazing old boats at Turk’s, Chatham
[ad#intheboatshed-post] This motor launch is on sale at Turk’s An astonishing sale of boats, many of the interesting and old, is going on at Turk’s of Chatham, Kent, apparently due to a relocation. See...
View ArticleToby Churchill’s photos of flat-bottomed boats on the Dordogne
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Toby’s photos of flat-bottomed boats on the Dordogne river Toby Churchill has sent in these shots of fishermen’s boats from the Dordogne, in France, which he found and...
View ArticleStand by for the May/June issue of Water Craft magazine due in a few days
[ad#intheboatshed-post] The May/June issue of Water Craft magazine is about to come out, and editor Peter Greenfield has sent us his customary preview. Here’s what he says: ‘April, moaned Mr Eliot, is...
View ArticleWoodbridge: a dockside stroll in photos
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Woodbridge from the head of the estuary. Click on the thumbnails for much bigger photos Woodbridge tide mill Liveaboards at Woodbridge Eversons’ splendid sheds; wind vanes...
View ArticleStudents at the Boat Building Academy race to complete boat building projects
Paul Gartside dinghy, Polynesian canoe, Tammie Norrie Spitzl rowing boat, half-rater, 10ft dinghy Caymans catboat, Yachting World Dayboat, Selway Fisher canoe Wee Rob canoe, Haven 12 1/2 Students and...
View ArticleBig crowds and strong winds at the Boat Building Academy’s summer student launch
Photos by Tracy Marler For years Boat Building Academy students at Lyme have been amazingly lucky with the weather on their big launch day – but not this time. These shots were taken at the summer...
View ArticleShaped on All Six Sides – a film about boatbuilder Andy Stewart
A short film by Kat Gardiner about Canadian boatbuilder Andy Stewart. My thanks to Sam Robinson for letting me know about this!
View ArticleA summary of how boats rot and what you could do about it (in the past)
This chapter is from quite a time before epoxy, polyurethane and the rest, of course – but it’s still what nightmares are made of. Whenever I read it, I can’t help thinking one should really...
View ArticleMatthew Atkin photographs the working boats of Thailand
My globe-trotting photography enthusiast brother Matthew Atkin visited Thailand recently and came back with hundreds of shots of fishing and pleasure boats (the pleasure boats are the ones that have...
View ArticleWooden boats: PBO columnist Dave Selby lays on the irony
I don’t mind admitting that Dave Selby’s latest offering in the plastic boat magazine PBO makes me laugh – it’s laden with table-spoonfuls of irony and yet familiar and nearly true. Happily, though, in...
View ArticleThe Beale Park Boat Show part II – various boats from around the show
These photos are from Friday at the Beale Park Boat Sho and to my mind represent some of the best things I say. I’ll put up individual posts explaining one or two of them at some point. More photos to...
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