Designing Boats • Building Boats • Using Boats
The Wooden Boat Centre in Tasmania, Australia, has launched the first Andrew Wolstenholme designed Franklin 29, ready for an exciting debut at this weekend’s Australian Wooden Boat Festival. Built using modern wooden boatbuilding techniques under the supervision of master shipwrights … Continued
The countdown to the 2023 Australian Wooden Boat Festival has begun! Back for the first time in four years after Covid forced the cancellation of the 2021 event, the AWBF will welcome more than 500 wooden boats afloat and ashore … Continued
For the first time in 70 years, on the 13th of November crews headed down to Everson’s in Suffolk – these days known as Woodbridge Boatyard – to race a fleet of Deben Cherubs. With paint and varnish gleaming the little … Continued
The winners of the The Gussies 2022 Electric Boat Awards have been announced, after voting by the public and an international judging panel of 19 electric boat experts. Organised by Plugboats.com, the awards are named after Gustave Trouvé, the French … Continued
A Scottish boatbuilder, A & R Way Ltd (Lochgilphead), has embedded an electric propulsion system into a rudder on a new build Oban Skiff. Adam Way made a replica rudder with a core of sapele and cheeks of larch, with … Continued
Despite a rich maritime tradition and a vibrant community of craftspeople building a wide range of boats, are our traditional wooden boatbuilding skills in danger of being lost? Heritage Crafts and the Wooden Boat Builders’ Trade Association are holding a … Continued
Kevin Halcrow of Lakeland Wooden Boats has brought a rather different boat with him to this year’s Southampton Boat Show. Alongside one of his Andrew Wolstenholme designed clinker dinghies – a 14’6’’ (4.4m) Swallow – Kevin is exhibiting a Haven … Continued
Star Yachts are back at the Southampton Boat Show this year with their Bristol 6.0 launch, exhibited for the first time at the show last year. Based in the historic Underfall Yard in Bristol and run by boatbuilder Win Cnoops, … Continued
The Woodbridge Boatyard is at the Southampton Boat Show on the Wooden Boatbuilders’ Trade Association’s stand with two wooden boats; ‘La Mouette’, the first new Everson 11 dinghy, and ‘Jubilee’, a Deben Cherub. ‘La Mouette’ was built earlier this year … Continued
Wessex Resins will be running daily product demonstrations over the course of Southampton International Boat Show (12:00 & 14:30 each day at stand J401, 16-25 September 2022). The mini-masterclasses will share the team’s specialist knowledge in getting the best out … Continued