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Port-Na-Storm: Southampton, United Kingdom

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This blog is mainly about building boats in your shed, garage or wherever you can, and then getting out and using them.

There are few things which can match the enjoyment and satisfaction of launching your own boat.

Enjoy, and come back and visit again.

Graham

P.S. If you borrow images or text from here please put a link back to this site. Its only polite.

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intheboatshed.net

How to sail by the folks at Hunter’s Yard on the Norfolk Broads - This is number 5 in a series by Hunters Yard about sailing their boats – but there’s lots of good stuff here for the rest of us! To see the full set, click...
2 hours ago
Scottish Coastal Rowing

2014 Events - The Scottish Coastal Rowing Association’s committee has been considering carefully the best way to ensure that future St Ayles Skiff World championships ar...
4 hours ago
Ullapool Coastal Rowing

The Musical Ark is coming to Loch Broom - Anybody who has followed the link to Sephira, The Musical Ark, on the entrants page of the SkiffieWorlds site will have been aware of the efforts by Michae...
22 hours ago
The Log of Spartina

mist - Here's a very nice Chesapeake Bay scene, one which I have stolen from my friend Curt's blog Thin Water Annie. He attended, on a misty morning, a boat gath...
2 days ago
...Thin Water Annie

33rd Annual Urbanna Boat Meet - It is still damp along the Chesapeake. It didn't, although, dampen the enthusiasm of those that met up at the Freeport Marina on the Piankatank River in Gl...
2 days ago
First time wooden boat builder - Somes Sound 12 1/2

It's that time of year again.... - In case anyone is curious why the blog seems to have come to a standstill, it's because my building has come to a standstill..!! This is no time of year ...
3 days ago
Vivier boats blog

Back from Morbihan week - Pen-Hir entering the Morbihan gulf . Photo Loïc MadelineThe Morbihan week (Semaine du Golfe du Morbihan), from 6 to 12th of May, is a main event in France ...
3 days ago
Bursledon Blog

Be careful what you Google - I confess to not knowing much about the motorboat scene, but I seem to recall "Ribbed for Pleasure" was an advertising slogan for a well know brand of cond...
3 days ago
Building a Scamp Sailboat

Rio's New Jig - I climbed into my boat for the first time today. It may not seem like a big deal but it's huge to me. I'm very inspired to finish her now. I sat in my bo...
3 days ago
Marginalia

Seventeen Year Cicadas - Seventeen Year Cicada, midway through transformation direct Youtube link A few days ago, the hatch of Magicicada Brood II began here in Virginia. These ...
4 days ago
ROWING FOR PLEASURE

Picomicroyacht does Land's End - What a stunning picture. It's Robin Morris's row/sail Laser Picomicroyacht, which I wrote about last year when he rowed across the Channel. His latest expl...
5 days ago
The Trouble with Old Boats

A New Topmast - When Lobie II, a Laurent Giles 43, lost the top of her mast off Lowestoft, most skippers would have decided to abort the circumnavigation of Britain. Not N...
6 days ago
DoryMan

Matinicus Double-ender, Mouse - We've been following the build of Jim Luton's Matinicus Double-ender, *Mouse, *and it's time to celebrate with Jim on the launch of his fine creation. It w...
6 days ago
Little Wing - a melonseed skiff inspired yacht.

Salamanca - Salamanca Market is the place to be if your are visiting Hobart on a Saturday. Surrounded by historic sandstone buildings, the market has over three hundr...
1 week ago
The Invisible Workshop

One of those days - It's not often a day comes along when, after a good, early breakfast, there is nothing left to do but ponder on what to have for lunch. Given a large supply ...
1 week ago
what was the middle thing?

getting somewhere... - I've always loved the feeling of the cumulative nature of some work- what I call good work. It's easy to be motivated for a long haul if you can convince...
2 weeks ago
scottishboating

Another Chapter closed at Ardmaddy, but the Book's not written yet! - *Read to the end to see the significance of this picture* This week there was a good chance to see democracy in action, Argyll style, at the Corran Halls...
3 weeks ago
Ross Lillistone Wooden Boats

Scram Pram Progress - I have previously written about a *Scram Pram* which I am finishing off for a customer from Sydney. *Scram Pram* is a design from the board of Jim Michalak...
5 weeks ago
1001 Boats

Cruising Tug - Peter Leenhouts of the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, Port Hadlock which is located on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, northwest of Seattle...
3 months ago
70.8%

In the wake of Sandy - Stunning view of the Mantoloking Bridge with Beaton's Boatyard in the upper left quadrant. Views of the devastation at Beaton's frontong on the river....
6 months ago
Page Three Boat Pictures

Houdini 'Hope' as a launch - Paul's lovely Houdini as a motor launch at Bemm River, Victoria.
1 year ago
UK HBBR

100 grand and not out - Well it happened, we had our 100,000th view last night shortly before midnight (BST). For those interested in such things the 20 most popular pages (by v...
2 years ago

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