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Their designer, Adrian Kohler, was the son of a South African boatbuilder.

Transporter In my free time, I've built seven boats with a boatbuilder friend.

Gornall has an eye for detail — essential for a boatbuilder, but for the readers, the details can become a distraction.

To make maximum use of the pier space accorded to him, he and a boatbuilder extended the original hull 30 feet.

A boatbuilder by trade, Young has perfected his art practice over the last decade, and currently has some of his work on show at Melbourne's Kirra Galleries.

From sailboats to self-driving carsGrunnan served as a shore team boatbuilder for what until recently was called the Volvo Ocean Race, essentially an endurance competition for sailboats.

Books of The Times Daniel Gumbiner's first novel, "The Boatbuilder," opens with Eli Koenigsberg wedging himself through the window of a Northern California farmhouse to look for prescription painkillers.

All the techniques that I use within my sculptures have been learned through my skills as a boatbuilder—from the planning phase and 3D drawings to the mould making and finishing stages.

The Hobie Magic 25 is a trailable, strict one-design monohull sportsboat that was manufactured by the Hobie Cat Company (USA), Bashford Boatbuilder (Australia) and Lidgard Boatbuilder (New Zealand) for racing and day sailing in the late 1990s.

Vanguard Sailboats has been an official partner of ICSA for many years and the boatbuilder annually sponsors the ICSA National Championships.

Bronza M. "Bronzie" Parks (d. May 13, 1958) was an American boatbuilder from Wingate, Maryland. Parks was the last builder of Chesapeake Bay skipjack sailing vessels.

The Hobie Magic 25 is currently out of production with about 75 boats in total being built, with the majority produced by Bashford Boatbuilder in Nowra, Australia.

Yeatman's father was a boatbuilder in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Yeatman remarried after his first wife died. After his death, his second wife married John Bell, who would run for U.S. president.

Holland started competitive sailing at the age of eight and was apprenticed as a boatbuilder in Auckland, where he built his first design, the 26' sloop White Rabbit in 1966.

Much indicates that it was Jacob Myers, an older man with experience as boatbuilder and galley owner.Brunot, William K. (2009–2010). "The Lewis and Clark Boat in Pittsburgh." Western Pennsylvania History (Winter).

The Boys in the Boat, p. 140; p. 186. Viking / Penguin Group, New York. . Beyond his achievements as a boatbuilder, his influence, promotion and philosophy of rowing have inspired countless oarsmen and coaches.

Poul Richard Høj Jensen "PRHJ" (born 2 June 1944) is a Danish sailor, boatbuilder, sailmaker and Olympic champion. PRHJ lives with his wife Sophia alternating in Burnham on Crouch and Freetown, Antigua and Barbuda.

Captain John McLure (January 22, 1816 - November 5, 1893The Progressive Batavian, Nov. 10., 1893, p. 1, "News of the Week") was an American steamship captain, boatbuilder, and businessman. McLure was born in Zelienople, Pennsylvania.

In his diary, Lewis never named the negligent boatbuilder, and local historians have for a century tried to find out who he was.Lowry, Patricia (2003). "Who Built the Big Boat?" Post- Gazette, Sunday, August 3.

As of 2018, Snyder's Shipyard in Dayspring, Nova Scotia is the only boatbuilder licensed to build Bluenose class sloops from W.J. Roue’s design. At least one Bluenose class sloop was constructed of wood by Snyder's Shipyard in 2007.

Boatbuilder Jóan Petur Clementsen himself is rowing. The campsite á Munkinum is one of the camping sites on Sandoy. The other two camping sites are in Húsavík and Dalur. In addition Sandsvatn and Gróthúsvatn are attractive places for fishing.

Several bed and breakfast operations cater to tourists and the village is home to several artist studios including David Lacey and the noted marine artist, printmaker and boatbuilder John Neville. Hall's Harbour's dramatic breakwater. The Bay of Fundy at low tide.

William Shippard purchased the house in 1747. Nathaniel Hichborn, a boatbuilder and cousin of Paul Revere, acquired the house from Shippard in 1781. The Hutchinson family lived in the house until 1864. It became a tenement and store until the early 1940s.

Hicks' complaint was upheld on appeal. The hotel apparently suspended operation around 1889 before reopening several years later under a new owner. As a boatbuilder, he is best known for canoes with a torpedo stem. He also built sailing canoes, skiffs and power boats.

As of 2013, it has a Portsmouth Yardstick rating of 95.4. The C&L; website says the rating is 97. The CL boatbuilder website differs from a sailmaker's statements about the rig's size. It claims that the boat carries sails that are: Main 95 sq.ft.

Allen was originally a Deal boatbuilder. He migrated to Wellington on the Catherine Stuart Forbes in 1841. Apart from living in the Hutt for eight years he spent all his life in Wellington. He was a boat builder by profession and had a business in Thorndon.

Young employed Bruce Farr, who would go on to become New Zealand's leading boat designer, as a boatbuilder designer when the latter was a teenager. In the 2012 New Year Honours, Young was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to boat building.

J W Miller & Sons Ltd was a boatbuilder in St Monans, Fife, Scotland for over 200 years. They produced a variety of fishing boats, yachts and motor launches. The firm built 110 Fifie yachts and was known worldwide for the quality and craftsmanship of their vessels. The yard is now closed.

Saibu Ayinde Bakare Ajikobi was born in 1912 at Okesuna Lafiaji area of Lagos to a soldier father. His father, Pa bakare was from Ajikobi Compound in Ilorin, Kwara State. He attended St. Mathias Catholic School, Lafiaji. Thereafter, he worked as an apprentice boatbuilder with the old Marine Department in Lagos.

First navigable submarine Richmond upon Thames. In 2002, the British boatbuilder Mark Edwards built a wooden submarine based on the original version by Drebbel. It was shown in the BBC TV programme Building the Impossible in 2002. He also built the first navigable submarine in 1620 while working for the English Royal Navy.

Sune Evert Carlsson (born 31 December 1931) is a Swedish Olympic sailor in the Star class and boatbuilder. He competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics, where finished 10th in the Star class together with Per-Olof Carlsson and has a silver medal from the 1977 Star World Championships together with Leif Carlsson.

Lewis Acker (c.1817–11 July 1885) was a New Zealand whaler, boatbuilder, trader, farmer and saw miller. He was born in New York City, US. Acker married a Kai Tahu woman, Mary Pui, and together they had nine children. After Acker retired from whaling, he built the cottage on Harrold Bay, Stewart Island.

Tally Ho is a gaff-rigged cutter yacht designed by the artist and yacht designer Albert Strange. The yacht was built in Sussex, England and has previously carried the names Betty, Alciope, and Escape. In 2017, the Albert Strange Association, then owners of the boat, sold it to an English boatbuilder to be completely refit.

Traditionally the caïque was used for fishing and trawling. Of late they have become a short excursion vessel, and former fishermen make money from the summer tourist trade on the busy islands, such as Corfu (Kerkyra) and Mykonos. The art of the boatbuilder is dying as plastic and fiberglass craft supersede the wooden craft.

William Patterson (1795-1869) was a Scottish engineer and boatbuilder. Born in Arbroath, he moved to London where he learned his craft at the yard of William Evans. He then moved to Bristol where he worked for William Scott as his assistant. When Scott became bankrupt, he took over his yard in various guises as William Patterson Shipbuilders.

There are a number of benches that appear to fold up from the carpet surface, and beneath the benches are sunken glass-topped boxes that hold coloured lights. At the eastern end an existing staircase, leading to an elevated walkway, was replaced with a new one, featuring a curving skin of wood ribbons, constructed by a local boatbuilder.

Richard Spratly was born on 22 January 1802 in the parish of All Saints, Poplar, East London. His father, Thomas, is described on his birth certificate as a boatbuilder. His mother was Ann née Myers. He was the second of four children (Mary Ann born 25 December 1799), Jane (born 15 December 1812) and William (born 18 March 1815).

Also in Kallin is The Boatshed, a marine repair facility which promotes traditional skills, and employs a full-time boatbuilder and trainee. Three generations of Stewart family built as many as 1000 boats from three sheds on Grimsay. Grimsay is encircled by a single-track road that links most of the island's small croft and fishing settlements together.

For his education, Warbrick was sent to the Catholic school at Takapuna, near Auckland. There, with the help of the minister for native affairs Donald McLean, Warbrick became an apprentice to the boatbuilder Charles Bailey. He was working with Bailey from age 14 to 24, and practiced rowing, yachting, hunting and rugby in his free time.

Arthur Piver (; "Piver rhymes with diver"; 1910–1968) was a World War II pilot, an amateur sailor, author, printshop owner and legendary boatbuilder who lived in Mill Valley on San Francisco Bay and became "the father of the modern multihull." He also introduced new changes to the superfice of the boat, for better hydrodinamic, but he had no agreement.

The 1911 halibut schooner, Tordenskjold, joined the Northwest Seaport fleet in February 2017. It was built in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood by renown boatbuilder, John Strand, in 1911. Tordenskjold fished the North Pacific and Bering Sea for over 100 years, never missing a season. From 1911 to 1934 its crew of 14 used dories to longline for halibut and cod.

He also designed motorsailers, boats that combined sailboat rigging with hull designs optimized for motoring as well. His first design was the Northeast 37, which was built by Costa Rican boatbuilder Cabo Rico. In 2003, Ellis described the 47-foot sloop, Volunteer, as his favourite design. The boat is a custom design for customer Fred Eaton.

In 1958, Parks was working on an skipjack-style sailboat for Willis C. Rowe of Silver Spring, Maryland. During a confrontation with Parks on May 13, 1958, regarding the cost of the project Rowe shot the boatbuilder three times killing him. Rowe was eventually convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 18 years in prison.

In the operation conceived by Hinterhoeller, the yachts were built in pits, as opposed to the state-of-the-art which required a boatbuilder to use a ladder to mount the erected hull and keel. In 1969 the customs tariff to import yachts from the US into Canada was 17.5% and C&C; achieved sales of $3.9 million its first year.

The economic backbone of Butte is a substantial agricultural network of producing farms as well as the State of Alaska Plant Materials Center. Organic and conventional farms in the area supply a bounty of produce to the local farmer's markets of the surrounding areas. A variety of other small businesses in the area include equestrian centers, coffee shops and restaurants, and a boatbuilder.

Stilgoe was born in Norwell, Massachusetts in 1949. His father was a boatbuilder. He graduated from Boston University with a B.A. in 1971, and from Purdue University with an M.A. in 1973. He entered Harvard's Ph.D. program in American Civilizations in 1973, where he studied under J. B. Jackson, a landscape architect known for his studies of vernacular American landscapes.

Until 2017, the Albert Strange Association owned the boat and had planned to restore and refit it. The hope was to eventually facilitate its return to the British Isles. Facing difficulties in their refit plans, in June 2017, the Association sold Tally Ho to English boatbuilder and sailor Leo Sampson Goolden for $1. He moved the boat to Sequim, Washington for restoration.

Mirage 27 designed by Perry In 1970, Jay Benford gave Perry his first job as a yacht designer. Benford was promoting ferro-cement boats in Seattle. Soon, Perry had his first published design, a 47-foot ketch in National Fisherman. Boatbuilder John Edwards who would found Hans Christian Yachts sent a letter to Perry in response to the 47-foot ketch.

Harald Punt (born 18 February 1952) is a retired Dutch rower who won three silver medals at the World Lightweight Rowing Championships in 1974, 1978 and 1979 in the single and double sculls (with Roel Michels). Punt is a boatbuilder and speaks Dutch and German. After retiring from competitions he worked as a rowing coach, particularly with Andreas and Irene Schmelz.

Drawing by Samuel Ward Stanton General Slocum was built by Divine Burtis, Jr., a Brooklyn boatbuilder who was awarded the contract on February 15, 1891. Her keel was long and the hull was wide constructed of white oak and yellow pine. General Slocum measured 1,284 tons gross,Cussler, Clive, General Slocum, National Underwater and Marine Agency. Retrieved November 26, 2010.

Roger Charles Degen (born 1 May 1939) is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Balmain in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1968 to 1984. Degen was born in Balmain to boatbuilder John Degen and Alice Quigley. He was educated at St Joseph's Christian Brothers High School in Rozelle before being apprenticed to the Railways Department building carriages and wagons.

The prototype was a 36' wooden one-tonner which Winfield named Morningcloud. From this Sparkman and Stephens were asked to develop a production design which became the S&S; 34\. The design was established as a new class in 1968 and quickly achieved great racing success. Two sets of moulds were built, with Winfield building several boats before the first set were sold to UK boatbuilder Acquafibre.

The Balaton-Füred Yacht Association was founded by members of the Hungarian gentry in 1867. Its first president learned to sail in England. In 1881, an English boatbuilder set up shop adjacent to the clubhouse. In 1884 and again in 1912, it changed names first to Stefania Yacht Association and then to the Magyar Yacht Association and, finally, until World War II, the Royal Hungarian Yacht Club.

The report of the STIF of 11 July 2007 called officially for an experimental riverboat system along the Seine, integrated into the Metro and other transport networks. In October, this service started, with the contract awarded to Batobus for two and a half years. Four catamarans were ordered from the boatbuilder Fountaine-Pajot. On 22 November 2007 the project got its official name, Voguéo.

Pickett was born in 1848 in New Hope, Pennsylvania. His father, Edward Pickett, had moved to New Hope in 1840 to repair one of the canal locks there and stayed to become a boatbuilder. Joseph worked a variety of jobs throughout his life, including carpenter, shipbuilder, carny, and storekeeper. He operated shooting galleries in the carnival and opened one of his own in Neshaminy Falls, Pennsylvania.

Jeremy Rogers Ltd. is a British boatyard based in Lymington. Founded by English boatbuilder and sailor Jeremy Rogers in 1961, it is currently known for construction to order of the classic Contessa 32 design, and refurbishment of Contessa and other yachts. The yard is notable for the high quality handbuilding of the yachts, and the renownd seaworthiness of the designs compared to modern mass-production yards.

Fish started his career as a boatbuilder and opened a shop in Front Street and in 1840, moved to Water Street. In 1850, he started a shipyard at Pamrapo, New Jersey. The earliest boats he worked on were the yachts Annie and Julia. He built a yacht for the Duke of Wellington, one for the Prince of Wales Club, and another for Sir Francis Sykes, of England.

The steamer was then owned by the Newport Navigation Company. George C. Walker, an experienced Yaquina Bay steamboat man and boatbuilder, who by then was living in California, was requested by telegraph to return to Yaquina City to supervise the work. The gasoline- powered Truant, itself a converted steamer, would replace Newport while the conversion was underway. The work was nearing completion on March 27, 1914.

William Day (21 February 1825 – 8 November 1887) was an Australian politician and boatbuilder. He was one of Charles Cowper's 21 appointments to the New South Wales Legislative Council in May 1861, but never took his seat. Day was the son of Thomas Day (1795–1868) and Susannah, née Stubbs (died 1833) and was born on 21 February 1825 in Sydney. In 1859 he married Anne Gertrude Souter.

Its single door serves both units, and the central hall has parallel curving staircases, as well as entrances into the parlors of each unit. The unit division extends into the two-story rear ell. The house was built for the Farrington brothers by John Leach, a prominent architect-builder who worked throughout central New Hampshire. The brick carriage house was built during the ownership of Joseph Lund, a boatbuilder.

James Sutton (1799 - 21 January 1868) was an English boatbuilder, canal boat carrier and owner of salt works. He became High Sheriff of Derbyshire. Wharf in Shardlow Shardlow Hall Sutton was born at Aston on Trent, the son of James Sutton and his wife Mary Crane. His father is said to have begun as a boatman but was successful in business in the salt trade, canal carrying and boatbuilding.

They had two cylinders, with bores of and , and a stroke of . Captain Anderson was a prominent boatbuilder and steamboat operator on Lake Washington, and the Issaquah was the most elaborate vessel he had ever built. Issaquah was the first ferry built by a private owner in the Puget Sound region. Issaquah was also one of the first ferries in the region designed and constructed to transport automobiles.

Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino (STT) of Trieste was selected for the contract to build the first eight vessels, designated the T-group. Another tender was requested for four more boats, but when a competing boatbuilder, Ganz-Danubius, reduced their price by ten percent, a total of sixteen boats were ordered from them, designated the F-group. The F-group designation signified the location of Ganz-Danubius' main shipyard at Fiume.

Boats in Gig Harbor Today, despite a long history of boat building, very little manufacturing exists in Gig Harbor. The only remaining boatbuilder is Gig Harbor Boatworks, which builds rowing and sailing dinghies in classic style using modern materials. Until recently, Tiderunner Boats maintained a manufacturing facility at the north end of the bay. The historic Skansie boatyard is now primarily a maintenance facility for yachts and pleasure craft.

The company was founded in 1996 by Lynn Rabren. The "boutique Gulf Coast boatbuilder" was relaunched under new ownership in 2019. Caribiana sea skiffs are outfitted to each customers wishes with mahogany or teak wood finishes. Having been described as having “graceful” hull shaping and “classic” wood detailing, the ease and maneuvering Of this lightweight boat with a shallow draft make it popular with boaters because it can go where similarly sized boats cannot.

The design was created by Norm Bell and John Larimore in the mid-1950s and used then-current polyester resin and fiberglass construction techniques. The boat was perhaps over-engineered, and is quite robustly built. Many examples, including hull #2 (the second production boat) continue to race every Saturday during the summer months. There were 250+ Inland Cats built by Bell/Larimore and a nearby boatbuilder in the 1950s thru early 1970s.

Clark's drawing of the keelboat from above Lewis was very dissatisfied with how the construction progressed. The boatbuilder was very tardy, drunken, and quarreled with his workers, causing several of them to quit work and leave the yard, further delaying the construction. He promised to bestir himself, but his resolution lasted only for a week. Lewis had to spend most of his time in Pittsburgh at the boat yard, in order to hasten the construction.

Gilbert Clarence Klingel (1908–1983) was a naturalist, boatbuilder, adventurer, photographer, author, inventor, contributor to the Baltimore Sun, for a time affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in New York and a member of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, and a curator and charter member of the Natural History Society of Maryland. He is best known for his book about the Chesapeake Bay, The Bay, which won the John Burroughs Medal in 1953.

He then joined Team New Zealand and was part of the crew on NZL 32 that won the 1995 America's Cup. He was then part of their 2003 America's Cup defence before joining oneWorld Challenge for the 2003 Louis Vuitton Cup. Mason is a boatbuilder and was also involved in the construction of NZL 32, NZL 38, NZL 57 and NZL 60. He re-joined Team New Zealand for the 2007 America's Cup.

The Lockwood was boatbuilder John B. Harrison's seventh bugeye, of the 18 he would build. Harrison was 24 years old when he built the Lockwood for Daniel W. Haddaway. Haddaway dredged for oysters from Tilghman Island with the Lockwood until 1892, when he sold the boat to James A. Roe and Richard T. Richardson. In 1895 Roe bought out Richardson, then sold Lockwood to John F. Tall, who operated from Cambridge, Maryland on the Choptank River.

Lagoon catamarans are a range of twin-hulled boats that are designed and produced in Bordeaux, France by boatbuilder Lagoon. The company began as a specialist multihull offshoot of Jeanneau, a volume monohull constructor. Jeanneau was subsequently purchased by Beneteau, another French manufacturer whose output is one of the highest in the world."About Lagoon catamarans" Lagoon, the world's largest multihull builder, specialises in modern sailing catamarans that are suitable for both coastal and offshore sailing.

Rather than demolishing the hangar, the University chose to repurpose the building as the ASUW Shell House. The Shell House's convenient waterfront location was perfect for storing and transporting the crew team's rowing shells to both competition and practice on Lake Washington. The Shell House was also partially transformed into a workshop for George Yeoman Pocock, the renowned boatbuilder who previously built pontoons for the Boeing company. Pocock constructed racing shells at this location until 1949.

In 2018 Lungteh Shipbuilding was awarded a contract to produce eleven Tuo Chiang Block II corvettes and four minelayers for the Taiwanese Navy. In April 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic the ROCN cut short their semi-annual goodwill mission to Central and South America. The flotilla consisting of two frigates and a supply vessel was subject to 30 days of quarantine after returning to Taiwan. In April 2020 Taiwanese boatbuilder Karmin International Co., Ltd.

In 1796 he was appointed master boatbuilder by Governor John Hunter. He married Rachel Turner in January 1797, who had come to NSW on Lady Juliana as a convict, been assigned to Surgeon John White, and to whom she bore a son, Andrew Douglas White. In January 1804 Governor Philip Gidley King launched what was believed to be the first vessel ever built in the colony, the armed cutter Integrity, of 50 tons (bm). Thomas Moore built her at Sydney Cove.

In the winter of 1928/29, the first boat was built by Archie Watty, for Sir Charles Hanson (a former Lord Mayor of London). The name comes from Troy town which is the fictional name given to Fowey by the writer and scholar Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in many of his books. Since 1929, a total of 29 boats have been built. Seven new boats have been built in the last ten years, five of them by Marcus Lewis, boatbuilder in Fowey.

In 1888 he and his four brothers were included into the New Zealand Native Football Team, which was captained by Joe Warbrick. Earlier in 1885 Alfred moved to Wairoa, to work as a boatbuilder in the Lake Rotorua district and to help Joe in his land business. Besides that, Alfred also built a public hall at Wairoa. After the volcanic eruption at Mount Tarawera and Lake Rotomahana of 10 June 1886, Alfred and his brothers Arthur and Joe joined the rescue operations.

The first twelve boats were constructed at the same time together by their first owners under the direction of master boatbuilder John H. Barkhouse, of Barkhouse Boatyard in Chester, Nova Scotia. Many of these original twelve boats are still actively sailed or even raced. B1 was allowed to fall into a state of disrepair, but has since been restored and is on display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. These first boats were carvel-built of pine planking on oak frames.

Peter "Spud" Rowsell (born 1944)The Woodenboat, Issues 56-61, J. J. Wilson, 1984 via Google books is a yachtsman and boatbuilder based in Exmouth, Devon, England. Rowsell has amongst many racing successes won the Merlin Rocket Class Championships at Abersoch Wales in 1978, crewed by Jon Turner, with a series of results which have never yet been surpassed by a later Champion of the Class. Rowsell was in partnership with Phil Morrison as Rowsell Morrison for about 15 years.

Local artist Will Gill chosen to create 351 art installation . The Telegram, March 25, 2013 Gill worked with master boatbuilder Jerome Canning on the piece, which was inspired by the original Black Island Punt crafted by fisherman John Dorey in Notre Dame Bay in the 1950s.Spotlight on Artist Will Gill and 351 Water Street . Business & Arts NL, September 1, 2015 "The goal was to create an effect that would be at once magical, wondrous and filled with life" Gill says.

This sharpieA sharpie is a flat- bottomed boat that can navigate the shallow bays of southwestern Florida. sailboat is an operational replica of an 1890s boat and was designed by master boatbuilder Stan Lowe & built under his direction by volunteers at Historic Spanish Point using traditional tools, techniques, and materials. The wood was harvested from local trees, cut down and shaped by hand. No power tools were used in the construction of the Lizzie G. The sails are hand stitched cotton.

The second set went to Australia and changed hands several times before finally coming to Perth, Western Australia boatbuilder Swarbrick and Swarbrick. About 200 boats have been built, approximately 50 in the United Kingdom and the remainder in Australia, and mainly by Swarbricks who continue to build S&S; 34 boats to order from the original moulds. Since 2004 a new generation of boats have been built using advanced construction materials and techniques. These newer boats use foam-sandwich construction, vinylester resins and multiaxial glass.

Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre The National Water Sports Centre is based at Holme Pierrepont, with a 2000-metre regatta lake for rowing, canoeing and sailing, and a white water slalom canoe course fed from the river. A number of other sailing, rowing and canoeing clubs are also based along the River Trent, as is the boatbuilder Raymond Sims. The centre hosted the 1981 ICF Canoe Sprint and 1995 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships and was the training base for the highly successful Nottinghamshire County Rowing Association.

This allowed it to be pulled across the river without the need for an engine, sails or rudder on the boat. Other boats continued to transport passengers across the route, particularly on busy days. The wire-boat was crossing the new channel of the River Dee where the current could be faster. The wire ferry boat was built by William Hall, ship and boatbuilder with dimensions of 25 feet length, 8 feet 10 1/2 inches width and 2 feet 4 inches in depth.

Philip Joseph Holdsworth (12 January 1851 – 19 January 1902) was a poet and public servant in colonial New South Wales. Holdsworth was born in Sydney, the only son of Philip Risby Holdsworth, a respected boatbuilder, and his wife Kate (née Bevan). From 1868 he held a position in the Treasury at Sydney; he later became Secretary to the Forest Department of New South Wales. He devoted his spare time to literature, and in 1885 published a volume of poems entitled, "Station Hunting on the Warrego, and other Poems".

Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi In this troubled atmosphere, Muhammad Ahmad ibn as Sayyid Abd Allah, a fakir, or holy man, who combined personal magnetism with religious zealotry, emerged, determined to expel the Turks and restore Islam to its primitive purity. The son of a Dongola boatbuilder, Muhammad Ahmad had become the disciple of Muhammad ash Sharif, the head of the Sammaniyah order. Later, as a sheikh of the order, Muhammad Ahmad spent several years in seclusion and gained a reputation as a mystic and teacher. In 1880, he became a Sammaniyah.

That boat would be replaced in the mid-1990s by the Diamond Jo Casino, named after Dubuque boatbuilder "Diamond" Joe Reynolds and his Diamond Jo Boat Line. In the late 1990s, the City of Dubuque saw an opportunity to expand on the existing tourism market by adding a major river- themed museum to the area. Alongside a new museum, the city proposed a new hotel and indoor water park attraction, a large convention center, riverwalk, and other amenities. This was all part of the "America's River Project," a $188 million revitalization of the North Port.

Charles Messenger migrated to Australia in the early 1870s in search of sculling fame and fortune. He gained a job in his trade as a boatbuilder at Greenlands Boatbuilders in Melbourne, where boatsheds still exist to this day, east of Princes Bridge (2020). At the time of his marriage (1875) he was living at Emerald Hill on the land on which is now the South Melbourne Town Hall.(2020). His main competitors in Melbourne were John Christie and John Cazaly, father of the later famous Australian Rules footballer, Roy Cazaly, of Up There Cazaly fame.

In 1819 Marsden made his second visit to New Zealand, bringing with him John Gare Butler as well as Francis Hall and James Kemp as lay settlers. William Puckey, a boatbuilder and carpenter, came with his family, including William Gilbert Puckey to assist in putting up the buildings at Kerikeri. In 1820, Marsden paid his third visit, on HMS Dromedary, bringing James Shepherd. Butler and Kemp took charge of the Kerikeri mission, but proved unable to develop a harmonious working relationship, and from 1822 to 1823 Butler was in dispute with Marsden.

The street-facing southern facade is two bays wide, with projecting bay windows on the first floor, topped by bracketed cornices. The second-floor sash windows are topped by half-round transom windows. The house was designed by Portland architect Charles A. Alexander, and was built in 1855 for Captain Sylvanus Blanchard (1778–1858), a ship's captain and boatbuilder who was one of Yarmouth's leading citizens of the day. Blanchard lived in the house just three years, dying in 1858, and the house passed to his son, Sylvanus Cushing Blanchard (1811–1888).

The Broads have been a boating holiday destination since the late 19th century. In 1878 small yachts were available to hire from John Loynes, and with easy access to the area by rail from London, Harry Blake created an agency for yachting holidays in 1908. The first boats were owned by the boatbuilder Ernest Collins of Wroxham, but other boatyards were soon added to the business. The range of boats expanded to include powered cruisers in the 1930s, and the Hoseasons agency was founded soon after the Second World War.

Hodgdon Yachts (incorporated as Hodgdon Shipbuilding, LLC and previously known as "Hodgdon Brothers" yard) is a builder of yachts and specialized military vessels, based in East Boothbay, Maine. It is a family-run business that was founded in 1816—reputedly the oldest continuously operating family boatbuilder in the United States. Hodgdon Yachts is noted for building superyachts, both sail and power, using advanced composite materials and construction techniques. It's also noted for its ability to incorporate those advanced materials into traditional designs that employ modern electronic and mechanical marine systems.

In the mid-20th century, Hoveton Little Broad played a role in the historical dispute between landowners and the public over rights of access to private broads. Since time immemorial, all Broadland waters had been considered part of the King's River and thus freely accessible to all. However, in the 19th century, several Norfolk landowners prevented access to broads in their ownership from the main river network under the Inclosures Acts. Boatbuilder Herbert Woods led a public campaign against the landowners' action, culminating in the 'invasion of Black Horse Broad' in March 1949.

Patriot on the Kennebec: Major Reuben Colburn, Benedict Arnold and the March to Quebec 1775, is an historical narrative by Mark A. York published on February, 17, 2012 by The History Press of Charleston, South Carolina. The book tells the story of Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec from the point of view of Reuben Colburn, the much-maligned planner and boatbuilder enlisted by George Washington to supply and guide the ill-fated mission through the Maine wilderness to capture British-held Quebec City in the early months of the American Revolution.

The progenitor of Belvoir Media Group was Belvoir Publications Inc. It was purchased by Belvoir Chairman Robert Englander in 1972, and consisted of a single title, Aviation Consumer. The publication was characterized by an advertising-free, subscriber-supported, high-value-content format modeled on Consumer Reports magazine that would become a Belvoir trademark. Practical Sailor was acquired in 1975, and Aviation Safety, also for pilots, was launched in 1980. During this period, Belvoir acquired additional titles in the aviation and marine domains—Light Plane Maintenance, IFR (which stands for “instrument flight rules”), and Boatbuilder.

In April 1850, another of Marcucci's boats, the sidewheeler Georgiana pioneered the short cut route through the Delta between Sacramento and Stockton. It led through what afterward was known as Georgiana Slough, which connects the Sacramento River with the San Joaquin River through the Mokelumne River. San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 99, 9 March 1902, p.6 First Boatbuilder on the Pacific Coast by J. M. Scanland In May 1850, the Georgiana pioneered the route from Stockton up the San Joaquin River and Tuolumne River to Tuolumne City.

55–56 In 2002, the British boatbuilder Mark Edwards built a wooden submarine based on the original 17th-century version by Drebbel. This was shown in the BBC TV programme Building the Impossible in November 2002. It is a scale working model of the original and was built using tools and construction methods common in 17th century boat building and was successfully tested under water with two rowers at Dorney Lake, diving beneath the surface and being rowed underwater for 10 minutes. Legal considerations prevented its use on the River Thames itself.

Jennings, John, The Canoe: A Living Tradition, Firefly Books Ltd., 2002, p. 183. Brothers William and Henry Chestnut, inheritors of their father's hardware business, became aware of the interest in canvas-covered canoes but knew importing them from the United States would substantially increase price due to import duties.Jennings, John, The Canoe: A Living Tradition, Firefly Books Ltd., 2002, p. 183. The Chestnut brothers hired boatbuilder Jack J. Moore to build a replica of a Morris canoe.Jennings, John, The Canoe: A Living Tradition, Firefly Books Ltd., 2002, p. 184.

The Ds return to Norfolk, hoping to enjoy a holiday with their friends of the Coot Club. Unfortunately, they find the Death and Glories (Pete, Bill and Joe) coming under a gathering cloud of suspicion of setting moored boats adrift. Everywhere they go, boats seem to be cast adrift; and they are threatened with being forbidden to sail, for fear of their fathers being disgraced and possibly losing their jobs. Things get worse when new shackles are stolen from a boatbuilder after one of the casting off episodes and some of them are found aboard the Death and Glory.

During one difficult interval of homesteading, Gibbons began foraging for local plants and berries to supplement the family diet. After leaving home at 15, he drifted throughout the Southwest, finding work as a dairyman, carpenter, trapper, gold panner, and cowboy. The early years of the Dust Bowl era found Gibbons in California, where he lived as a self-described “bindle stiff” (hobo) and, in sympathy with labor causes, began writing Communist Party leaflets. Later in the 1930s he settled in Seattle, served a stint in the Army, married, and worked as a carpenter, surveyor, and boatbuilder.

Alfred Patchett Warbrick (24 February 1860 - 19 May 1940) was a New Zealand boatbuilder, rugby player and tourist guide. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngāti Rangitihi and Te Arawa iwi. Warbrick was the first of five children of Abraham Warbrick, an English immigrant, and Nga Karauna Paerau, a Māori and the daughter of a Ngāti Rangitihi chief. After his mother died, his father remarried and had seven more children. Four of his brothersArthur, Fred, Joe and Billywent on to tour Britain, Ireland and Australia with Alfred as part of the 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team.

Vosper Thornycroft flourished even during lean times for warship building, mainly through successful sales efforts in exports and diversification outside the core shipbuilding business into training and support. In 1998, Vosper Thornycroft acquired the specialist military boatbuilder Halmatic, based in Portchester. In 2001, in their most ambitious diversification project, VT started work on the US$55million superyacht Mirabella V for former Avis Car Hire boss Joe Vittoria. At the time of its completion in 2004, Mirabella V was the world's largest single-masted sailing vessel with an overall length of 75 metres and a mast height of approximately 87 metres.

The Volvo Sport (also known as P1900) is a Swedish fiberglass-bodied roadster of which sixty-eight units were built between 1956 and 1957 by Volvo Cars. Assar Gabrielsson, Volvo's president and founder, got the idea for the car when he saw a Chevrolet Corvette in the United States and wanted to make something similar. He asked Bill Tritt of Glasspar, an American boatbuilder in Santa Ana, California, to design and tool a fibreglass/reinforced polyester body, which was later produced in Sweden. Glasspar was a pioneer in building fiberglass auto bodies from 1951 to 1957.

Alfred Herbert (1818-1861), was an English watercolour painter. Herbert was born in Christchurch area of Southwark the son of a Thames waterman, who apprenticed him to a boatbuilder, but, yielding to a strong natural inclination, he became an artist. He began to exhibit with the Society of British Artists in 1844, and at the Royal Academy in 1847, his subjects being coast scenes, with fishing-boats and figures, and views in the lower reaches of the Thames. He sent an oil picture to Suffolk Street in 1855, and continued a regular contributor of water-colours at the Royal Academy until 1860.

Syrena Leavitt at the wheel of the coasting schooner Alice S. Wentworth, Lynn, Massachusetts, Mystic Seaport Leavitt himself was a crew member on several coastal schooners in Maine beginning in 1918 until about 1925, the tail end of the schooner era.Wake of the Coasters, Cape Cod History, capecodhistory.us/books Later in life, the boatbuilder and artist began working for the esteemed Mystic Seaport museum, where he continued painting and writing about his love: the sea and the boats built to withstand it. At Mystic, Leavitt worked as an assistant curator, applying his knowledge of sailing vessels to the museum's collection.

Melville was born in Tokatoka, on the Wairoa River south of Dargaville. Her father was a farmer and boatbuilder, while her mother was a former teacher. After receiving a basic education from her mother and in Tokatoka, she won a scholarship to study at what is now Auckland Girls' Grammar School (then part of Auckland Grammar School). She began to study to become a lawyer, then an unusual choice for women -- when she was admitted to the bar in 1906, she was only the second woman in New Zealand to reach this stage (the first being Ethel Benjamin).

Boyd was born Annie Burnham Cooper in Sag Harbor, New York, the daughter of William Cooper, a prosperous boatbuilder; she was the youngest of eleven children. At the age of 16 she began keeping a diary, which she continued writing well into adulthood. Her father died in 1894, and a year later she married William John Boyd, with whom she moved to Brooklyn; they kept the cottage which her father had willed her in Sag Harbor and used it as a summer home. Their son William was born in 1898, and their daughter Nancy followed three years later.

In 1841 the boatbuilder James Mill was declared bankrupt and his yard and contents auctioned March 17 & 18 In 1844 the harbour master was Mr. J.S.Buckley, he was also the Lloyd's agent. In 1845 the port was advertising for tenders from contractors able to construct a wharf, warehouse and crane. In the past the unloading of smaller vesssels able to pass under the town bridge took place further upstream than it does currently. In 1848 it was reported that 'the wharf on the South Brink road had sunk considerably further during the past week and the probability is that the communication by this road will be entirely cut off before long.

The club's charter and by-laws were officially registered on 14 February 1911. Snipe fleet number 46, based at the club, was very strong in the 1930s and first hosted the Midwinter Snipe Championship Regatta in 1935, and has been raced ever since with the exception of the war years. Clifford McKay Jr., aged 12, was sailing as a crew in this Snipe fleet in August 1947, when his father Major Clifford A McKay, required local boatbuilder Clark Mills to create the cheapest possible sailing boat that could get the local young people afloat in their own boats. The result was the Optimist and Clearwater Optimist fleet was soon in action.

Shamrock was designed by third-generation Scottish boatbuilder, William Fife III, and built in 1898 by J. Thorneycroft & Co., at Church Wharf, Chiswick, for owner Sir Thomas Lipton of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club (and also of Lipton Tea fame). However her draft was too great for construction at Chiswick and she was built at Millwall. Shamrock (also known as Shamrock I, to distinguish her from her successors) was built in 1898 under a shroud of secrecy, and christened by Lady Russell of Killowen at its launch on 26 June 1899. Shamrock featured a composite build, with manganese-bronze bottom and aluminium topside clinkerbuilt over a steel frame and a pine decking.

The river was given its English name by European colonial settlers and pastoralists, Charles and William Archer, on 4 May 1853 in honour of Sir Charles FitzRoy, at the time the Governor of the Colony of New South Wales, as Queensland did not become a separate colony until 1859. The famous boatbuilder Colin Archer was the first known individual to sail up the river, with his cutter "Ellida". thumb The city of Rockhampton is situated on the river, some from the coast. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the city was a major port, however rocky bars in the river prevented the Fitzroy from being used for navigation any further inland.

Alexander Robertson, 1851-1937 'Tarskavaig', Isle of Skye Alexander Robertson, the son of a crofter/fisherman from Tarskavaig on the Isle of Skye, was born in Inverkip on 29 August 1851. Following the catastrophic potato blight on Skye in 1846, Alexander's father left Tarskavaig to seek a better life fishing on the River Clyde. After his parents moved to Sandbank in 1859 to run the village Post Office, his father taught him to sail and look after boats, then he served his apprenticeship as a boatbuilder in Dunoon and Govan. In 1876, at the age of 25, he teamed up with Daniel Kerr to build small boats at his workshop in Sandbank.

Its bicentenary was celebrated on 7 May 1977; the commemoration was held four months after the actual anniversary of 12 January, to avoid poor weather conditions. The tradition of boat hire, repairs and boatbuilding continues at the bridge and tunnels at Richmond Bridge Boathouses under boatbuilder Mark Edwards, awarded his MBE in 2013 for "services to boatbuilding" including construction of the royal barge Gloriana. Just to the south of the bridge, in a park at the Richmond end, is a bust of the first president of Chile, Bernardo O'Higgins, who studied in Richmond from 1795 until 1798. In 1998, 200 years after he left Richmond, the bust, whose sculptor is unknown, was unveiled.

In 1985, the President and founder of the Hellenic Institute for the Preservation of Nautical Tradition (HIPNT) Harry Tzalas in close cooperation with Dr.Michael Katzev and ancient ship re-constructor Richard Steffy with a number of Greek experts on traditional boatbuilding and underwater archaeology, completed a full-size replica of the ship, known as Kyrenia II. The ship was constructed following an exact procedure as the one followed by the ancient boatbuilder of the ancient ship of Kyrenia. This was achieved at the Manolis Psaros boatyard in Piraeus Greece . Kyrenia II is often used as a floating ambassador of Cypriot culture, and has visited many parts of the world. In 1986, it visited New York City; in 1988, Japan; and in 1989, West Germany.

1885 yard bill from local plumber to fit a WC in a yacht By the age of 16, Robertson had started work as an apprentice with the Dunoon boatbuilder, Ewen Sutherland, who came from a family of boatbuilders in Portree on the Isle of Skye. After his initial training, further experience was acquired at Alexander Stephen and Sons Ltd of Linthouse, one of the main Govan yards. In 1876 Robertson, at the age of 25, teamed up with Daniel Kerr to form 'Robertson & Kerr, Boat Builders and Carpenters'. The initial boats built in their small workshop were modest 'clinker' craft and fishing skiffs, but they also carried out repairs, hired and stored boats, laid moorings and even earned money from fishing.

Wild Oats XI in the 2011 Sydney to Hobart race, skippered by Richards Mark Richards is an Australian sailor and boatbuilder, best known for his achievements as skipper of Wild Oats XI, 9 times line honours winner of the annual Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht race. In 1995, Richards founded Palm Beach Motor Yachts in Australia, which was acquired by Grand Banks Yachts in 2014. Richards is currently CEO of Grand Banks as a result of the acquisition. As a professional sailor, Richards has sailed in 2 Americas Cup challenges, has achieved World Match Racing victories, has won the Sydney to Gold Coast yacht race, the 2003 Admirals Cup, and has taken out line honours and handicap honours in the prestigious Rolex Sydney to Hobart races.

Paul Bunyan Muffler Man in Rocky Mount, North Carolina The Gemini Giant at the Launching Pad, a drive-in restaurant in Illinois Boatbuilder Steve Dashew established International Fiberglass in 1963 by purchasing and renaming Bob Prewitt's workshop, Prewitt Fiberglass. The oversized fibreglass men, women and dinosaurs began as a sideline. The first of the figures, a Paul Bunyan holding an oversized axe to promote a restaurant, was created by Bob Prewitt in 1962 for the Paul Bunyan Café on Route 66 in Flagstaff, Arizona. As the fibreglass moulds for this initial figure existed when Dashew acquired the company, similar characters could be readily created by keeping the same basic characteristics (such as the right palm up, left palm down position in which the original Bunyan lumberjack figure held his axe) with minor variation.

Canadian built Fairmiles Originally designed for the Royal Navy (RN) by W.J. Holt of the British Admiralty and built by British boatbuilder Fairmile Marine, during the Second World War 88 Fairmile B motor launches, with slight modifications for Canadian climatic and operational conditions, were built in Canada for service with the RCN in home waters. The first thirty-six Canadian Fairmile B type were designated and painted up as CML 01-36 (coastal motor launch). Eight Canadian Fairmiles (Q 392-Q 399) were built by Le Blanc for the RN and were transferred under Lend-Lease to the US Navy as US coastal protection had been depleted by transferring ships to the Royal Navy for convoy work. The US Navy used the Canadian-built Fairmiles as submarine chasers (SC1466-1473).

Edward VII as Prince of Wales by Downey W. & D. Downey were Victorian studio photographers operating in London from the 1860s to the 1910s. William Downey (14 July 1829 in South Shields – 7 July 1915 in Kensington),photoLondon who came to be known as the Queen's Photographer, was born in King Street in South Shields, a decade before commercial photography had become a reality. William, initially, was a carpenter and boatbuilder,Downey but in about 1855 he set up a studio in South Shields with his brother Daniel and later established branches in Blyth, Morpeth and Newcastle. Their first Royal commission was to provide photographs for Queen Victoria of the Hartley Colliery Disaster in January 1862. Daniel Downey is his brother (1831 – 15 July 1881). In 1863 they opened a studio on Eldon Square in Newcastle.

Williams and Parkinson of Deganwy quay were traditional boat builders in North Wales established by Cyril Williams in 1930, later on becoming Williams and Nixon following the Second World War and continuing to build until 1979. Classic wooden boats were built by Williams using traditional techniques mostly in oak, pitch pine, mahogany and teak. The famous and historically important Gentleman's Motor Yacht Sea Mew was built by Williams and Parkinson in 1936 and was used as one of the Little ships of Dunkirk that rescued the British army off the beaches of Dunkirk in the second world war. Another pedigree model built at the shipyard was the 'Conway Class' 34 ft Bermudan cutter sailing yacht designed by W.H Rowland (who also is accredited as a boatbuilder himself with his shipyard W.H Rowland & Co, Bangor) who was also the boat builder of the Seabird Half Rater.