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 Posted on April 10th,2009I am way behind on posting stuff and am trying to crawl out of it. One post come courtesy of my dad. Messum’s,and art gallery in London,had been selling the work of James Dodds. It looks like they are no longer,so I had to track the work down directly at Dodds’own [...]  Category:Boat Media &Events,Classic Yachts |  Tags:boat art,james dodds,painting |  One comment |  Trackback this Post Posted on October 13th,2007I have spent much of my free daylight hours over the last couple weeks putting paint on the Peace Canoe. Today,at about 10:30 AM local,I made some final touch-ups and called her done. Obviously there are little things that make me cringe (that only I will likely notice,for the most [...] Category:Boatbuilding,Peace Canoe (2007) | Tags:john harris,painting,peace canoe,plywood canoe | 2 comments | Trackback this Post Posted on October 1st,2007And after a couple weeks of planing and sanding and one final clean-up,she is ready to paint. Voila! I have also chosen the colors,not an easy task for me. She will look something like this: [...] Category:Boatbuilding,Peace Canoe (2007) | Tags:painting,peace canoe,planing,plywood,plywood canoe,sanding | One comment | Trackback this Post Posted on February 12th,2007I am pleased to be able to show off two great pieces of artwork that fans of this blog will surely enjoy: The talented artist? That would be George Shaw. Name ring a bell? That would be my dad. Good stuff,eh? I believe the second boat is a Caledonia Yawl by Iain [...] Category:Boat Media &Events,Canoes | Tags:iain oughtred,painting,yawl | One comment | Trackback this Post Posted on December 27th,2006The holidays are a great time to learn about family odds and ends that you had never managed to pick up. I learned the other day that my great-grandfather ran the American Dredging Company for many years. I guess this outfit was a major marine contractor of its day. In 1932 the company purchased some [...] Category:Great Designs &Designers | Tags:friendship sloop,gaff rig,painting,work boat | 2 comments | Trackback this Post | ||
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