My refuge from the vissicitudes of the modern world, in here I can lose hours sticking little bits of wood together and then sanding most of it away again. Well it is one way of keeping warm.
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My homebuilt boats, click on the line to go to the story
Polka – a Mirror dinghy restoration
Banana – Selway Fisher Seafox Kayak
Polly’s Folly – Selway Fisher Highlander 14 sailing dinghy
Bumble-of-Lochdubh – Iain Oughtred Humble Bee Prams
Scotch-Mist – Iain Oughtred MacGregor Sailing Canoe
Stangarra – Iain Oughtred Stickleback Canoe
Candyfloss – Pretty in pink – CLC Wood Duck 12 Kayak
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I was really taken by your gold leaf fish, can you make two more?
Cost?
Thanks,
Dex
By: Dex on August 3, 2009
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Hi Dex
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Glad somebody liked them, I am still very uncertain about them, not sure they add anything and are probably way OTT on the bling front.
Cost, next to nothing, apart from time, the full gory detail of how to do your own will be told sometime this winter in WaterCraft magazine – if I ever get round to finishing the article
They are really easy and NO artistic competence is required at all, if I can do it then anybody can!
Regards
Chris
By: strathkanchris on August 4, 2009
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please feel free to remove this
Not sure if this is of any interest to you
But in my you tube space there are three or four films of old gaffers and many classic yachts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKNjVvevIPs
the whole playlist is here
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DCCD9E425AB79637
Dylan
By: dylan on May 19, 2009
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[...] to me that I’ve been meaning to link to Chris’s weblog about his building projects, StrathkanChris’s Little World. The list of boats that have come out of his green shed is becoming more and more impressive. The [...]
By: intheboatshed.net» Chris Perkins Oughtred Stickleback canoe, Storer Raid cruising and weblog on December 10, 2008
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