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Tuesday, 28 June 2011

Mystery Flotilla

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All these cruise boats which normally run tourists up and down the Thames have been laid up on this mid stream mooring in the centre of Lond...
Saturday, 25 June 2011

Sea Legs

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We were sitting by the slipway watching as a fleet of Optimists and their support boats were recovered from the river when a large rib drive...
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Friday, 24 June 2011

Progress on the SCOW

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Work on the SCOW has been painfully slow all year, but I've finally got around to repairing the deck. The old patterned non slip deck w...
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Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Another new gaffer

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Spotted this open gaffer heading up river in breezy conditions, I don’t know if she’s a local boat or a visitor, she looks like she might be...
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Saturday, 18 June 2011

Boatbuilding the wrong way around

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I've started building a model yacht for Joe and rather than do the sensible thing and buy plans I decided to scale down and modify the h...
Thursday, 16 June 2011

Steamboat

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This steam boat was out on the river at the weekend, it was delightful, slipping along almost silently with that faint, fresh smell of steam...
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Wednesday, 15 June 2011

The not so great fire of London

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Walking along the South Bank yesterday just after lunch it was obvious that there was a serious fire over near the Strand. I had a meeting o...
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Bursledon, Hampshire, United Kingdom
We live close to Bursledon Bridge on the Hamble River. This is about boats, wildlife and people in the upper reaches of the Hamble, but mostly about old boats and things nautical.
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