AT17

AT17
The blog will now be devoted not to boat building but to my 82-year-old Vertue, Sally II, now undergoing a well needed refit at Johnson & Loftus in Ullapool (and gliding...)

Thursday, 16 December 2010

My Favourite Boat of 2010





Now that is what I call a boat. Anyone guess? Rhymes with Dumbo? Comes from a little saintly town in the West Country? God I wish I could build boats like that...

Photos copyright Peter Chesworth courtesy Watercraft Magazine
http://watercraft-magazine.com
 
http://www.stivesjumbo.com

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3 comments:

  1. Graham Neil19 December 2010 at 22:39

    There are now two St Ives Jumbos built by Jonny Nance.

    http://port-na-storm.blogspot.com/2010/10/st-ives-jumbos.html

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  2. Anders Eliasson23 December 2010 at 09:35

    Adrian. By judging your work so far, you can build a boat like this one. And I think that you will one day when you´re eady

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  3. Adrian Morgan29 December 2010 at 20:41

    I'm ready, it's just that discerning customers who value these kind of boats seem to have high tailed it to the hills until they feel the financial climate is right to indulge in a traditional wooden boat.

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