18th century-style lugger Alert back from Iceland – and for sale
Alert at Sedisfjordur, Iceland Will’s father fishing at anchor; Alert sailing in Sedisfjordur, Alert at the Customs pontoon in Sedisfjordur Seaman Hingley collecting driftwood to burn; Alert in the...
View ArticlePete Goss launches his new lugger
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Pete Goss’s new boat, Spirit of Mystery. All photos by Mark Lloyd of Lloyd Images Solo ocean racer Pete Goss’s latest project is to build a lugger to follow in the wake of the...
View ArticlePete Goss’s Spirit of Mystery in sea trials
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Pete Goss’s new boat, Spirit of Mystery – click on the photos for a much larger image. All photos by Mark Lloyd of Lloyd Images Pete Goss has been putting his new lugger Spirit...
View ArticleSome ancient photos of famous old boats
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Tilikum at Margate, with Captain John Voss standing at the bows. As usual click on the images for much larger photographs Fishing luggers sailing out of Mevagissey, Cornwall...
View ArticleSpirit of Mystery crew set sail for Australia – but without their underpants
[ad#intheboatshed-post] The crew of the Mounts Bay lugger Spirit Mystery wave as they set sail for Australia – presumably before the underpants crisis hit home West Country sailor and adventurer Pete...
View ArticleStirling & Son build a yawl for HMS Victory
[ad#intheboatshed-post] A yawl for HMS Victory, build by Stirling & Son. Even the supports Boatbuilder Will Stirling of Morewellham has sent us these photo of the striking yawl his company Stirling...
View ArticleKatydid loses her ballast keel, but what about her wooden one?
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Fife-built Clyde 17/19 lugger Katydid loses her iron ballast keel I love restorations. The restorer never knows quite what he or she is going to come up against, and along the...
View ArticleA traditional Hebridean lugger built by Harris boatbuilder John Macaulay
[ad#intheboatshed-post] One of the treats of the Beale Park Thames Boat Show was seeing one of John Macaulay’s traditional Hebridean skiffs full of old-fashioned boatbuilding features. Note the short...
View ArticleKeble Chatterton analyses the astonishing Portuguese muleta
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Portuguese muleta illustration from The Story of Sail by GS Laird Clowes and Cecil Trew. Click on the image to see some of the amazing details, including the weird sails at the...
View ArticleJohn Macauley-built lugger Freyja needs a good new home in Scotland
My friend Ian Duffill is looking for a new home in Scotland for Freyja, the John Macaulay-built 16ft clinker dinghy seen at the Beale Park Thames Boat Show. Here’s the story of Freyja, as Ian tells it:...
View ArticleFifie Ocean Pearl has won the Round the Island Race gaffer class
Ocean Pearl raced in the Round the Island Race gaffer class – and won Emsworth-based boatbuilder and Intheboatshed.net reader Nick Gates has written into report that his fifie Ocean Pearl has won the...
View ArticleBuilding Grayhound – a time-lapse film of the building of a 63ft 1776 lugger
It’s all going on in Cornwall; read all about it here and here. My thanks to the Boat Building Academy for leading me to this one!
View Article32ft modern timber built sailing lugger for sale on eBay
She looks nice and comfortable as well as good fun to sail, and she’s on eBay now. Go on – you know you want to! My thanks to John Lockwood for alerting me to this one.
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