In our September/October 2010 issue - in good newsagents from 26 August - you’ll find….
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• It’s 16 years since designer Nigel Irens launched his radical 30’ (9m) lugger Roxane. Now Dick Phillips has built a not-so-conventional gaff-sloop version in wood and Peter Goad has come to sail her…. click to see

• Did you see the BJ17 at the Beale Park Boat Show? Bart Jan Batts asked Nigel to redesign his 3-masted 17’ (2.2m) King Alfred School Expedition Boat– with a Roxane lug rig. Kathy Mansfield sailed her. click to see

• And talking of 17-footers, Alice Driscoll says the new water-ballasted BayRaider 17 from Swallow Boats is two boats in one. click to see

• It’s less than a year since Alec Jordan launched his first kit-built 22’ (6.7m) St Ayles skiff for the Scottish Coastal Rowing Project. Now 22 are in build and six community groups have completed – and raced – their own boats.
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• And talking of Scotland, did you know that when Robin Hood wasn’t up there riding through the glen, he was off surfboating in Wales? We didn’t either. And when Ridley Scott’s new film Robin Hood needed a fleet of mediaeval surfboats, Mark Edwards’ Bridge Boathouses had to make them without chopping down Sherwood. click to see

Plus the best of Beale, Water Craft’s Amateur Boatbuilding Awards and all our regular features. click to see