building boats

Fri

5°C | -1°C

During 2004/05, 12 Heron dinghys were built in garages throughout the village

and 6 more were purchased  by families in the area leading to

quite a healthy fleet within the first year. This also lead to a few members

swelling up with an allergic reaction to the resin used to form the shell.

See Kinvara Bay Sailing Club and below a photo of one of the herons.

Last winter my husband renovated a traditional irish rowing boat called a curach.

See below Lorace before/after.



This is our local chemist taking advantage of the dry weather yesterday to work on his 6 berth sailing boat The Red Gauntlet.

The Red Gauntlet was built in the 1930s and came with a small rowing boat used to row to shore when the sailing boat was anchored. The rowing boat has just been discovered in a shed in Brittany. The french man who owns it traced the original boat builders and found the previous owner of the sailing boat and the two will be reunited some time this year.