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The SMOD evolved as a result of a Dr. James defeating Frank Peters in races off St. Mawes, Cornwall in the early 1920s. These defeats led to Frank Peters designing…
Commander John Watkinson, an experienced and accomplished Naval Officer, left the Royal Navy in 1958 and bought a boatyard, Kelly and Hall, to try his hand at a new venture.…
The Peterborough canoe is a direct descendant of the Canadian birch bark canoes that were built and used by the Indians of Ontario’s Otonabee Valley. However, its narrow cedar planking,…
Wayfarers have been built by professional boatbuilders and DIY enthusiasts in their thousands, and have proved themselves to be very stable and seaworthy boats. The class has been enduringly successful,…
The sport and leisure activity of canoeing became popular in the latter half of the 19th century. And as a result large numbers of traditional North American birch bark and…
This dug out canoe was produced by burning the centre of the log out with controlled fire and finishing with a hand axe. This particular example is thought to have…
Joy is a TV Times Dinghy, one of several examples in the Museum’s collection from the 1950’s onwards of a dinghy sponsored by a newspaper or magazine. Other examples include…
Light displacement hulls, bulb keels, low wetted areas, aspects of design perhaps more commonly associated with the modern era, actually have a longer history than is often realised. In the…
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…
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