Restoring and maintaining a boat
Aidan & his Seagull
Aidan and his Heard 28 Isabel's legendary British Seagull outboard - a hybrid of several models he has used over the years. Aidan's in depth article on Seagulls can be found: HERE
Moulding an oil tray
How To Series by Jake Kavanagh with Wessex Resins and adhesives The beauty of epoxy is that it makes a tough, non-shrinking connection between various angles of wood, ideal when you want to make a plug for a custom mould. Which is why he wrote this article for us on how to make a oil drip [...]
Sugar my deck
Sugar Shaken (Not Stirred) on Mylor’s Sweetest Spirit... Mylor Yacht Harbour’s master painter Steve “Beefy” Burley has seen just about everything in more than four decades on the job – but sprinkling granulated sugar onto the immaculate deck of classic Spirit 46’ yacht Helen of Durgan to create a non-slip surface was a new one [...]
The building of Ceiba’s stem
Follow the progress of Ceiba's Stem as Lynx Guimond, co-Founder & Technical Lead takes you through the steps. Be sure to notice the technical overlay, which highlights the exact piece that Lynx is working on, or speaking about in that moment. The two ton stem is the foreward-most curve of the ship, where the figurehead [...]
Ceiba’s stem goes up
The stem of Ceiba, the wooden carbon-negative cargo sailing ship being built in Costa Rica was manually hoisted high up into the air and installed recently. The stem construction in place The wood used for constructing the stem – which is the forward-most curve of the hull, is the well-known shipbuilding timber Guapinol [...]
Spirit Yachts using Lignia
At the Southampton Boat Show 2019 we visited the new Spirit CR50 yacht and talked to them about using Lignia on the yacht's deck. Lignia is the new-ish FSC certified timber product which uses sustainable timber like pine that is impregnated with a resin which is then heat-cured to improve longevity and performance . Spirit's [...]
Excelsior’s new boat
New Lowestoft-built ship's boat is launched for Excelsior Excelsior Trust – the Lowestoft based sailing charity – has taken delivery of a traditional ships’ boat, built by Lowestoft’s International Boatbuilding Training College. This boat is an historical reconstruction based upon a drawing held by the Science Museum recording of a smack’s boat in 1937. Excelsior [...]
A new gig
A first view of the new Harker's Yard gig - built in glassfibre by apprentices with the Pioneer Trust in Brightlingsea. [/fusion_youtube] The new gig is the same as the well known wooden ones, and was being tested for buoyancy. Nina Crouchman and the Pioneer Trust’s founder and chairman Rupert Marks were [...]
Falmouth school to build new gig
Boatbuilding history is being ‘reenergised’ with a new Cornish gig To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the building of the Pilot Gig Energy, the Cornish Pilot Gig Association (CPGA) has commissioned Falmouth Marine School to build a new Cornish Pilot Gig. To be named Energy 2 the build will begin in September and will be [...]