Houdini 'Hope' as a launch

Paul's lovely Houdini as a motor launch at Bemm River, Victoria. 

Jon's elegant Pathfinder

Jon's blog of his Pathfinder adventures are here . Above is a pic that shows really nicely, how elegant a Pathfinder can look, and below that, one of his regular (and very charming) crew supervises security on the beach. 

A fine Ontario Houdini

Burton sent this great shot of his Houdini "Jackrabbit", which he built a few years back and cruised on Lake Superior, the Ottawa River, and other Canadian inland waterways. Thanks Burton.

Ruby Merle at the Geelong WB Festival

 Two fine pics of Ruby Merle, a recently restored 'couta boat which won the Concours d'Elegance at the 2012 Geelong Wooden Boat Festival. The pictures were taken by 'Miniopterus' and he tells me there may be more soon.

on a roll here...there IS something about Navigator

Three pics sent from Owen Sinclair, owner of 'Tusk' (above with yellow trim) of a trip with the Johnstone boat 'Korora' around the Abel Tasman National Park coastline in New Zealand.  Nice work Dave and Owen- keep them coming!

Navigator 'Annie' at Mallacoota Victoria

A lovely picnic spot on the far shore of the 'bottom lake' at Mallacoota and  a jetty within a small inlet at 'The Narrows". Those clouds emptied themselves on us on the return journey...

Houdini 'Hope' in repose

 Paul's very attractive Houdini looks so sunny and cheerful in yellow and is pictured here resting in Brooklyn New South Wales

languid Valgerda

Doryman being conveyed in style in his William Atkin Valgerda

Very attractive Gartside day sailer

Dale S.  sailing his comfortable and exciting 14.5 ft Gartside designed boat. He says the boat is ideal single-handed in 9-10 knots, but is quickly over-powered above that without crew or reefing points...I'm just trying to work out which brand of tiller lubricant he is using in the bottom pic.
His flickr set of the boat in action is here.

Barry's Beauties Before they left the Basement

Barry has been making his perfect pair in the basement, and word has it that they have finally emerged into the corrupt world, through a very narrow doorway....These Melonseeds are featured in Barry's evocative and thoughtful web site here .

Beautiful Beg Meil from Brittany

Juame put me onto this lovely boat built by Pierre-Yves. His web pages here give details of the design and the build, as well as information (in French) about maritime history in North Brittany.

 I have been surprised at how hard it is to find examples of this Vivier design home-built, and am very grateful to be able to represent this one.

what could be finer?

Joel's 'Ellie' resting during his recent trip to Sucia Island with his son. A great report here


And here is Joel's shot catching Doryman doing what he does so often and so very well, strategically  placed between the lovely Ellie and a fine looking Eel. I'm sure we'll see more of that...

great to see JW afloat with small crew

Some good news from NZ. See John's blog here.

cutter rigged couta boat, Rhyll, Victoria

One of the lucky little ships to live in Western Port  Bay Victoria, Australia. Magnificent water, much more tidal than Port Phillip. 

coming in

low res, but Annie with some atmosphere...

Gerard's new Navigator at launching

Another Navigator is born, a lovely job outlined in Blindblake's Flickr set here

Brandon and crew on his lovely valgerda 19 footer

Another shot purloined from Doryman (still dry when this was taken, I think). Brandon's fine blog is here

sticks and string

My new 'Annie' getting organised for transport. Build pics here

finely restored 1952 canoe

Brought to the sailing day at Rye by a WBA member.

slippery sharpie again...

A working shot of Tony's 'Ursa' taken from Paul's scaled -up Tammie Norrie.

detail from Tony's sharpie skiff 'Ursa'

A long, slippery skiff with wonderful details. I'm hoping Tony will be able to tell me the original maker's name.

Wayne's very old clinker dinghy

I saw Wayne slip this into the water at Rye beach in Victoria, just before he used it to bag a good catch of flathead. He popped the lug sail up in minutes and took to the water with no fuss at all. It is restored in a very restrained sort of manner; he has kept the feel of a simple, working boat, and has avoided the temptations of glamour at every turn. The life story of the hull remains indented in some of the boards

Reuben's Silver Fern

This Silver Fern restored by Reuben was designed by Archibald Logan in New Zealand in 1933 as a race trainer. I'm not sure when this one was built, or how it came to Australia, but Reuben tells me the sails are original. She has a traditional (very beautiful) 12' carvel hull.

Paul's scaled-up Tammie Norrie

Built at home, this lovely yawl has mainly hand-built fittings. She rows well, and paul speaks highly of the mizzen for relaxed sailing. Paul tells me the beam, sail area and displacement volume have all been increased by adding 10% to each linear dimension. His blog and web pages can be found here

Goat Island Skiff

A UK build of Michael Storer's design. This build is featured in the photo collection called "Yare Valley Sailing Club photos' here