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The Invisible Workshop’s Ben Crawshaw has been taking striking photographs of the beach outside his Tarragona apartment You may have noticed the Blogroll to the right of this post. It’s meant to be a...
View ArticleJohn Welsford’s new Pilgrim 16ft open cruising boat design
It’s entirely a matter of coincidence, but John Welsford has also been weblogging the design of boat – though his could hardly be different from my little skiff. Pilgrim is a small seaworthy open...
View ArticleJoe Blathwayt builds a glued clinker dinghy at the Boat Building Academy
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Boat Building Academy principal Yvonne Green has sent us a final set of photos from the student launch day down in Lyme back in December, this time showing a 12ft glued clinker...
View ArticleEx-Academy student wins scholarship to build a Dorset lerret by eye
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Dorset lerret photographed on the beach. Click on the image to go to the excellent Burton Bradstock web pages including some interesting photos of traditional boats Former Boat...
View ArticleSalt pans at Guerande, Brittany
Salt pans at Guerande in Brittany They say we’re made of sea-water, so I suppose one could say these fascinating drying salt pans at Guerande in Brittany are concentrating some aspect of mammalian...
View ArticleColour film of the beach at Deauville, France, 1912
Retronaut continues to be just wonderful. This clip is a real coup!
View ArticleOld film about the Ionian at Aldeborough
Here’s another film treat, this time about a trawler converted to a houseboat on the beach at Aldeborough. Does anyone have memories and stories to share? As a young boy holidaying with my family in...
View ArticleOn the beach at Hastings
Last week my son and I went to Hastings beach for an outing and to have a look at the fishing fleet…. Here’s what I came back with… One of the best bits was watching one of the beach-based fleet boats...
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