Traditional Boat Building Skills.

[CHJ]

Thought some of the sailing fraternity might be interested in this:

Gloucester shipbuilder completes historic trow barge

 

[hanser]

Chas

Thanks for the link. Good to see that some of traditional boat building skills are being retained.

 

[Tony Spear]

I hope the're not planning to sail it to the Thames pageant!

A friend of mine came from a family who had worked the Trows for generations and he told me that they were pigs to work under sail.

In fact, he said, they mainly used the tides rather than the wind!