Terminology for the different parts of a boat can be confusing. For instance when someone says ceiling... that's not the inside of the cabin top – that would be the deckhead. A ceiling is the inboard lining (usually of slats or light planks) covering the frames in the cabin. And a floor is a structural [...]
Powder coatings have always offered customers numerous environmental benefits - now they've become even more sustainable following the launch of a full range of Interpon Low-E products developed by AkzoNobel. The company introduced its first Low-E products - a coarse texture range - late last year. Now a complete range of smooth finishes in Interpon [...]
Moray McPhail brings years of experience and understanding to some common problems associated with the gaff rig – and, specifically, the saddle Every so often I get an email describing how a gaff saddle I've made isn't working properly – usually because it is trying to shuffle round to the wrong side of the mast, [...]
Key supplier was ‘teak kingpin’ who colluded with officials to defraud Myanmar Evidence of serious repeated violations of the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) by a trader of Myanmar teak has been submitted to German and European enforcement authorities by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). The evidence shows that multiple shipments of Myanmar teak [...]
Catching up with the beautiful Morgan Giles 43s - now sailing again as a fleet (after they were sold out of the Royal Navy in the 1980s) and being run by Classic Sail, of Chichester, West Sussex. [/fusion_youtube] See more of Classic Sail: HERE
The team at Sail Cargo, building a carbon negative marine freight 155ft (47m) timber three mast ship in the jungle in Costa Rica, has reached a major milestone with the raising of the first frame. The keel had been laid, complete, by January 8 and the staging around it to take the frames needed completing [...]
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has released new scientific data, that links exposure to mild steel welding fumes with possible causes of lung and kidney cancer. The Workplace Health Expert Committee, part of the UK Health and Safety Executive, have now endorsed re-classifying mild steel welding fumes as carcinogenic to humans. The Health [...]
Haines Boatyard at Itchenor is known for its wooden keelboat and GRP dinghy repair and boatyard services. Recently however the company has been undertaking some more unusual work in renovating and maintaining wooden and GRP rowing boats. HB's in-house shipwrights have been engaged in the renovation of a Solent Galley. Originally built for racing in [...]
Restoration of the 1898 Summers & Payne yawl Wayward - also known as Samphire
