About
This site is a reflection of my life as an aged recluse building boats that rarely see water, pottering in a Scottish garden and occasional meandering in the countryside of the far Northwest of Scotland. I am long retired and have developed what boatbuilding ability I have over the last seven years or so. I have built several boats for neighbours and five for myself – always for good rational reasons which evaporated as soon as they got on the water – my search for the perfect boat continues. It is probably the one in the bottle once the hassle of building the latest has driven me to empty it.
For my boatbuilding tales please go to The Little Green Shed
For my miscellaneous burblings look at Ramblings
Garden Snaps and Hilly Snaps are self explanatory.
If you want to ‘borrow’ my snaps and post elsewhere please respect my copyright and clear it with me first – especially so if you are going to make a statement of fact about the how, too often I am seeing my snaps posted elsewhere with comments that are factually incorrect.
Hello Chris
My messages to HBBR site keep bouncing in spite of my efforts to rectify things.
Thank you again for the lift from Beale to Lechlade and many congratulations for all the photos.
The Raid was a wonderful holiday and I felt really fit and well after it.
Best wishes to you and your vife,
Tony
By: tony waller on June 15, 2009
at 13:05
Dear Chris, thank you so much for the lovely photograph you gave us on Sunday it is great. My lad Dom was a bit dissapointed we didnt win anything so the photoand your very kind comments were a great consolation. I hope you got home in comfort and I look forward to seeing you agin next year at the show. Thanks again Ben
By: ben fowler on June 9, 2009
at 13:55
Hi Ben,
. I should tell Dom that it’s the taking part that matters – winning is the subjective view of a few individuals faced with an invideous task, just how do you choose between such a great variety of well executed boats?
Grand to meet up again, I think your error might have been the use of Bolts and wing nuts to hold the three parts of Gekko together – string scores more points
As for next year – why wait – why not bring her and the crew up to the Cotswold Water Park Rally in September – you will have a great time, as long as you don’t expect organisation.
Chris
Oh and BTW have modded the snap as we discussed! – it’s now on the Beale 09 page.
By: strathkanchris on June 9, 2009
at 15:53
Hi Chris. You seem to be getting on great with all this techno stuff. Keep it up. I’m sure we can get a decent HBBR site out of all this research. Cheers for now Graham.
By: Graham on June 13, 2008
at 15:33