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Sunshine is a Sunderland Foy Boat, known locally as a coble. The distinctive hull shape of these clinker built beach boats has been traditional along a stretch of the north east coast of Britain from Spurn Head in Yorkshire to the Farne Islands in Northumberland. Cobles were developed as beach boats for launching into surf,…
In 1948 a 14ft sailing dinghy was presented to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, as a wedding present from the Royal New Zealand Navy. Named Kiwi the boat was built in the workshop of HMNZ Dockyard, Devonport, New Zealand. Based on a standard design for the Royal Naval Sailing Association, she was modified…
Possibly one of the earliest and simplest forms of waterborne travel, this type of boat, made from a single trunk of Goiticia, a rot-resistant hardwood, has been common on the east coast of Brazil for thousands of years. No preservatives are used in the construction, although sometimes paint is added for decoration and identification purposes.…
Small boats tend to be shaped by the lives of those who make and use them. so around the world vessels built for the same purpose differ greatly, due to the availability of materials and tools, traditional techniques and the unique local environments in which the boats are used. This Kuwaiti Tishaala Dow, Tala, is…
This strip-plank wooden canoe was one of many imported into this country in the early 1900s from North America by Rowland Ward & Co. and sold through large London stores, in this particular case, Naturalists of Piccadilly. The heavy decoration is not typical of canoes in North America but appealed to the European market. Length…
This coracle-like craft is an Iraqi “guffa”, a traditional form of craft used for both cargo and passenger transport on the rivers of Iraq, notably the Tigris, for millennia: the first reference is in the writings of the Greek historian Herodotus in the fourth century B.C. Photographs of Iraq from a century ago show the…
Cosi fan tutte is the newest of three Flying Dutchman dinghies in the museum’s collection. Dutch Courage (BAE0006) is an early example from the 1950’s, whilst Rodney Pattison’s Superdocious (BAE 0022), from 1968, may be regarded as representing the zenith of wooden construction. The first plastic boats came into the class in around 1960 but…
There is nothing new about the idea of a folding boat. Some of the Titanic’s lifeboats were folding boats and were successfully launched before the ship sank, but any lifeboat associated with the Titanic probably would not have received rave reviews so not many were built. Folding boats present all sorts of challenges to their…
William Fife (1857-1944) has a reputation for being one of the world’s foremost yacht designers. His father and grandfather had also been boatbuilders and had a construction yard at Fairlie, on the Clyde. Fife’s yachts achieved a reputation for superb craftsmanship and a good turn of speed. His clients included Sir Thomas Lipton, the grocery…
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