Boatmen?

[Sam Thompson]

Anyone on here into boats of any sort?

 

I've always had a connection to water, swimming, canoeing or sailing, whatevers going

 

At the moment I don't sail much, but spend a fair amount of time open canoeing, and do a little bit of kayaking. I'm in the (slow:001_rolleyes:) process of making a canoe to compliment the "plastic" boats I've got at the moment. I made a coracle a couple of years ago for the banter, thats pretty hard - but great fun, especially for kids.

 

 

Anyone else into boats?

 

 

 

Sam

[agg221]

I got into milling through a need for oak to repair my 40ft canal boat. I then did a 72ft canal boat and currently have a 30ft boat in my garden that I'm giving the owner a hand with. This means 2" planks, 3" bottoms and 5x3" natural grown crooks for frames - not the kind of thing you turn up and ask your local timber merchant for!

 

Alec

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Had a couple of RIBs and a cornish tosher with a 60hp diesel which was real sweet...

[Canal Navvy]

A flat pack narrow boat in the 'to do' pile.

 

Not too much pressure as we have a lot to do to re-open the canals.

[Pete Hart]

Yeah, I love sailing.... Learnt to sail keelboats whilst at uni in soton. We had a baptism of fire learning in and around the solent (very busy with oil tankers, red jet ferries and various other big commercial vessels everywhere, not to mention the pleasure boaters too!).

 

Used to sail an x-yacht that my uncle kept at Parkstone yacht club in Poole harbour. Used to race and have great weekends away on the I-o-W. Also used to get away to the channel islands and french coastline.

Really miss it since the boat was sold!

Luckily my love of the water and watersports is fed by my neighbour who has a boat - we go wakeboarding with whenever the conditions allow!!

[Badgermert]

I spend an awful lot of my time involved in canal/river tree work working off of boats or in/over the water or as a tug pilot. However much more interesting we got called out to assist in dismantling a "fake" sailing barge "Brunel" next to Paddington Station.

[Pete Hart]

awesome pic Badgermert!!

[kevwrenn]

I've done a bit over the years, did some kayaking in scouts, and still do occasionally, white water, flat, coastal and lakes... spent 3 weeks in a sea kayak of the coast of Chile in 1995, heading to the San Rafael glacier. Early 90's i paddled a catamaran in races, we were british champs for a couple of years. Also built and paddled my own coracle, ending with a source to sea trip on the Teifi in wales, raising a couple of grand for cancer research.

[zeroluke]

I did sailing as a kid with scouts, I mostly loved it. Sometimes I did odd day out in them canadian canoes, all on lakes. Now-a days its canal boats. I've hired 3 so far, 2 for the day and one for 4 nights. The pace of life on one is almost like nothing else. That said you still get some old sod blasting horn signals along the Leeds Liverpool canal that he has right of way, which would have been fine if he could be heard over the noise of the engine. I never thought canal rage could exist now its mostly leisure boaters.

[sean]

Not really....used to enjoy canoeing when younger but am aiming to klayak down the Helford River in cornwall in the next couple of years to photograph trees:thumbup1: