TOM BENN
THE BOSUN SCHOOL
JANET HARBER
CRAFTSMANSHIP
ROE BOATS IRELAND A canoe, a cat yawl and a Dark Harbor
This canoe, recently built by Tiernan Roe of Roeboats with friend Connor (not to mention the dog) in Ballydehob, County Cork, is to a Platt Monfort ‘geodisic’ design. Even when skinned (in Dacron sailcloth),it will weigh less than 10kg. Tiernan is also building 16ft (4.9m) lug-rigged cat yawl designed by Karl Stambaugh and is offering scrappage for your old boat (up to €3,000) when you order a new boat from him! Try a strip-planked Dark Harbor (25ft day sailer designed in 1910) or a 25ft (7.6m) William Hand motorised ‘bay cruiser’.
LUNENBERG, CANADA
Dory built by Picton crew
MASHFORDS, PLYMOUTH Huff and a puff
The world’s first fin-and-skeg yacht is being rebuilt at Mashford’s boatyard in Plymouth, where two new apprentices start this January, thanks to funding drummed up by Barbara Bridgman of Cremyll Sailing. Huff of Arklow, the distinctive Uffa Fox-designed ‘Flying 30’ built 1951, was for many years a mainstay of Cremyll’s sail-training fleet, but is now, says Dominic Bridgman, “getting tired”. Her iron floors are degrading and timber beneath her brass fastenings have dissolved. Backers include the Cornwall Marine Network, European Social Funding and the Transport Trust. The job will last at least two years and her double-skinned hull should teach the two lads a lot. PW
The globe-trotting crew of the Tall Ship Picton Castle recently launched a 16ft (4.9m) clinker work skiff in real wood. They built it at The Dory Shop in Lunenberg, Nova Scotia in just two and a half weeks as part of The Bosun School, a 14-week shore-based programme run by Picton Castle that gives the young crew the chance to learn boatbuilding and other skills.
SUFFOLK
Jack Coote’s boat restored
This 10-tonne, 31ft (9.5m) centreboard motor-sailing sloop Blue Shoal was launched by Souters of Cowes in 1956 to an AP Bayzand design. She received high praise in Yachts and Yachting for her capability at almost any task. This great all-rounder was later owned by Jack Coote, author of the famous East Coast Rivers pilot guide. She’s now been restored by owners Brian and Eileen Ward and is, fittingly, at her new home on Suffolk’s River Orwell.
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