Restoring and maintaining a boat

Mimi Jane’s new windlass

2020-11-06T11:23:53+00:00December 17th, 2018|Maintenance|

British engineering for a Canadian cutter Mark and Murielle Ovenden are building a steel cutter of their own design in Ottawa, Canada. The 51ft 28 ton Mimi Jane is inspired by the sailing work boats of Murielle's native Brittany, more particularly of her home town of Concarneau. Their website mimijane.ca is a well documented story of [...]

Restoration of Ester 1901

2020-11-06T11:24:16+00:00October 25th, 2018|Design, Maintenance|

Ester in her heyday. Click on images to expand We called her the mini Vasa - after Stockholm's famous museum ship. She is Ester, the 1901 champion racing yacht designed by Gunnar Melgren, with a dagger keel for extreme performance... and she was a Baltic racing legend. But she sank offshore in the [...]

Dunkirk Little Ship lugger relaunches

2020-11-06T11:24:21+00:00October 12th, 2018|Maintenance, News|

Following a two- and half-year restoration and refit the beautiful historic fishing vessel Our Lizzie is due to be relaunched at The International Boatbuilding Training College, Lowestoft on Tuesday 16 October 2018. Built of pitch pine on oak frames in 1920 at Porthleven, Cornwall by W. J. Oliver & Sons, as a St Ives fishing [...]

Antifouling Paints and the Biocidal Products Regulation

2020-11-06T11:24:24+00:00September 28th, 2018|Business News, Maintenance|

The British Coatings Federation’s Marine Coatings Group (MCG) remains concerned that there is some confusion within the UK leisure boat industry regarding the current and future availability of antifouling paints for protecting yachts and boats. This note is intended to provide clarity on the key legislation currently affecting antifouling paints (the Biocidal Products Regulation (EU) [...]

Boat insurer backs RNLI’s lifejacket clinics

2020-11-06T11:24:29+00:00September 14th, 2018|Maintenance, News|

             The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and boat insurance specialist GJW Direct have announced a new association, which will see GJW Direct become an official supporter of the RNLI’s Lifejacket Clinics. The RNLI has over 400 active volunteer Community Safety Officers who are specifically trained to provide safety advice on a wide range of [...]

The £1 Folkboat

2020-11-06T11:24:35+00:00August 17th, 2018|Features, Maintenance|

Jasper Troje Tuck, crew on the commercial sailing lugger Grayhound, writes for CS about taking ownership of a 1960s wooden Folkboat, and getting her ready for a first sail... plus giving her some "legs" Vie is an East German Folkboat, built in 1963. The hull construction is carvel strip planked mahogany on oak, fastened with [...]

Lofting, reframing, removing planks – Tally Ho

2020-11-06T11:24:47+00:00July 30th, 2018|Maintenance|

By Leo Goolden   In which Leo gets some more help to remove a lot of Tally Ho’s hull planking. The volunteers grind and hammer copper rivets, while he finishes lofting the intermediate frames inside the workshop. Finally it's time to make the first frame template, and cut the first futtocks for that frame, shaping the [...]

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