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“Perhaps the Solomon Islands are more celebrated for their canoes than for anything else, and, if so, I think, with reason”, wrote W. Coote in his work The Western Pacific. Other writers on the Solomon Islands, a Melanesian archipelago of some 900 islands north east of Australia, wax similarly lyrical about the local design of…
As leisure sailing increased in both affordability and popularity in the years after the Second World War many rivers around the UK coast had their own class of locally designed and built racing dinghies. The Helford Delta Class was designed and built by Dick Winfrey who ran a small boatyard on the south bank of…
Hydroplanes were developed in the 1920’s and 30’s as outboard engines became available and increased in size and power. Originally outboards were used on utility boats but as racing evolved and speed records were set hydroplanes were designed as a way of going much faster. This particular boat was designed by a naval architect named…
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…
Pip Emma is a small rowing dinghy built by the famous boat builder/designer F.C. Morgan Giles whilst on leave from the RNVR in 1916. Its very light construction is due to the lack of materials during wartime, for example the stern is made out of an old mahogany table. The boat was originally built for…
During the early part of the 20th century, post-war Britain was pursuing high speed technology. Between 1922 and 1936, for example, Sir Malcolm Campbell broke no less than twelve land speed records in a series of increasingly powerful cars. In 1929 at the Miami Regatta Sir Henry Segrave became the first Englishman to beat Gar…
On January 9th 1956 two Enterprise Dinghies crossed the Channel between Dover and Calais in the middle of the night. This remarkable achievement rocked the sailing world and brought international recognition to the designer Jack Holt. Both these dinghies are now in the Museum’s collection. Jack Holt (1912-1995) was born into humble stock. The son…
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 been used on the River Plate including the estuary and as such is complete with a tin plate foredeck at the bow. The hull is…
This is a typical example of a traditional outrigger canoe from Sri Lanka primarily used for fishing, both off the beach and further out to sea. The shallow dugout hull, carved from a single log, is raised with side strakes fixed on shaped inserted frames and sewn to the hull with coir. The two booms…
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