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Saw that on titanic She said she’d never let him go!
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Concrete boats were quite the thing in the 70s
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Like the corracle.....make sure its a nice day before taking to the water though!
Back in the late 80's i used to exhibit at the Wooden boat show at Greenwhich, It was a brilliant show & most of us treated it as a sort of holiday & occasionally we sold something!
The organisers got two Welshmen father & son to build two coracles at the show & had a large temporary paddling pond in which kids big & small could try them out.
Of course put a load of wooden boatbuilders & beer together after the show finished for the day & what happened, coracle racing round the pond! Great fun & i was one of the few who didnt get wet.
Trick is to put the end of the paddle on your shoulder & scull over the front of the thing with one arm.
looks like you are doing a great job with yours!
The organisers got two Welshmen father & son to build two coracles at the show & had a large temporary paddling pond in which kids big & small could try them out.
Of course put a load of wooden boatbuilders & beer together after the show finished for the day & what happened, coracle racing round the pond! Great fun & i was one of the few who didnt get wet.
Trick is to put the end of the paddle on your shoulder & scull over the front of the thing with one arm.
looks like you are doing a great job with yours!
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Now all these potholes in Wiltshire are beginning to make sense.
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Yep.
Taken Wiltshire councils this long to get out and fix them.
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May I respectfully suggest you add the words " sort of" to the end of your sentence.
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Does that help
It looks good, and is a good effort. However, I think it has a flaw. The front end needs to be flat, so you can reach over to move the paddle back and forth? Otherwise you need to be very tall/long arms Peter Crouch type or you will be banging the front with your paddle all the time. I may be wrong of course...
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Aye the seat is offset its closer to one end than the other.
You could be right about the shape its all guess work we just used a rope on the lawn to get the shape
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I used to know a guy called Pete Greenfield who was the first editor of Classic Boat magazine, now edits Watercraft magazine I think, back in the day, he and his wife Maggie built a scale replica of Joshua Slocum's boat 'Spray' out of ferro concrete (all DIY, he even planed the masts by hand). It was moored up at Gweek on the Helford estuary in Cornwall, they lived aboard. Beautiful spot too.
He wrote a book about his experience:
The first ferro boat book / Pete Greenfield.
ISBN 0370300661 0370300904Not sure if it's still in print, though, great bloke and a lovely genuine couple.
Joshua Slocum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Slocum
Slocum's book on his solo circumnavigation of the world is an absolute classic: "Sailing Alone Around the World", I'd recommend it to anyone, especially the advice on coping with the natives of Tierra Del Fuego, the Fuegians who were considered rather frightening by visitors.
Their eventual assimilation and genocide sorted out any worries visitors might have had about their cultural practices.
Pete greenfield was involved with the Wooden boatshow where i met him, he started with Classic boat magazine then started Watercraft.
Small world! Post show drinkies in the Plume of Feathers pub after the show shut were legendary. Then it was off to an Indian, Kebab, Chinese, whatever & back to the pub!
Small world! Post show drinkies in the Plume of Feathers pub after the show shut were legendary. Then it was off to an Indian, Kebab, Chinese, whatever & back to the pub!
