I have been a recreational sailor for many years, with a particular interest in small sailing craft; therefore much of the content of my 'blog' will be related to this subject.
Friday, January 01, 2016
Bill’s small sailboats - the future.
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Yachting world 5 tonner designed by robert clark.
Monday, December 21, 2015
Vertue yachts designed by laurent giles.
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Maurice griffiths and his ‘eventide’ yacht.
Friday, December 18, 2015
Twister yacht designed by kim holman.
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
The boats that built britain.
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
‘barbican’ - an alan buchanan yacht.
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Denman Marine specialises in custom wooden boat building and repair. We utilise both traditional methods such as carvel or clinker and modern methods such as strip planking, cold molding or clinker plywood. We can custom build to any design - for example those by Iain Oughtred, David Payne, Paul Gartside, John Welsford, Mark Bowdidge, Francois Vivier, Atkin , Bolger B&B, etc. We are a small team of Australian wooden boat builders based in Kettering Tasmania, and are the sole agents for Chesapeake Light Craft (USA) wooden kit boats in Australia and New Zealand, as well as Swallow Yachts , and Barton Marine products (UK). Denman Marine are proud builders of Wooden Boats in Australia.
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Chesapeake Light Craft is your source for boat kits, kayak kits, boat plans, and boatbuilding materials. Our original, award-winning boat designs include kayaks, canoes, rowing boats, dinghies, and sailboats. More than 40,000 CLC boats …
On the Design & Building of Dalliance. Dalliance is a self-designed, self-built micro-cruiser trimaran. I identified the requirements over time, and drew up plans that mostly meet …
This rig can effectively turn one of their kayaks into a sailing kayak-trimaran. Small trimaran enthusiast Kellan Hatch used CLC’s Mill Creek design as a working model in …
An Internet friend, Kellan Hatch, wrote an article* for Duckworks Magazine featuring the building and sailing trials of his 16’ 6”, kit-supplied CLC Mill Creek 6.5 Trimaran. The title of his article was, ‘A Curious Boat for …
This is an ultra efficient, modern folding trimaran design with advanced features not found elsewhere. As WoodenBoat Magazine confirmed in their 2017 independent test report (WB#254), she is of uniquely easy construction, yet …
The record is held by a whopping big, multi-million dollar foiling trimaran right now. It is being chased by the two kiteboarders who have about $6K invested in their primary rigs and have major league cajones to do 50+ …
Fast sailing kayak-trimarans open up all sorts of adventure possibilities. The compact kayak and rig can be cartopped to some far-flung archipelago, assembled on the beach, loaded with gear, and sailed 40+ miles in eight …
We sail our Trimaran 50 miles down the coast of Florida in just a few hours, passing through Sarasota to Cayo Casta where we beach our boat.
Chesapeake Light Craft will soon be offering a building kit for the Trika Trimaran. The kit is designed to help those who want to build their small boat themselves do so in a …