An Adventure 'Sail and Oar' Cruiser Designed by John Welsford
Image Jan J Hein
I like to give a design a name that is suggestive of its aims, and this one was to be my very own ‘adventure boat’, intended for very long multi day coastal cruises, some of them in open water with sheltered anchorages far enough apart to make passages of several days quite possible.
The ski is now ready for the top and bottom ply skins to be attached. The plans call for the surfaces to be glued and also nailed ... probably not necessary to nail but the brass nails (escutshions) would look good under the varnish.
The Didi 26 Kosatka (Russian for ‘Orca’) was built by Ivan Vasilyev in Irkutsk, Siberia. This was Ivan’s first attempt at amateur boatbuilding, seen here racing on Lake Baikal. Image Eugene Belemov
“We are all in this together.” We have all heard that countless times recently. We are all together but separated, in a situation that we have never experienced before, with millions of people on enforced layoffs from work and education. We have little certainty of how long this is going to last; the initial round may be gone before this issue arrives in your mailbox but the experts warn of it coming back, maybe more than once, before technology gets the better of it. When it is here and the world slows to a crawl we can choose to lie all day and night on the sofa feeding our faces while binge-watching junk TV, or we can be productive.
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