by Martin Hargreaves | Nov 28, 2014 | News
The last few moths have been a bit of an upheaval, not only have we moved house but somehow re-fitting the kitchen, making a couple of new windows, lowering the ground level across the front of the house and building a greenhouse seem to have crept onto the schedule....
by Martin Hargreaves | Jul 29, 2014 | refit and repair, wooden boats
Leila is probably the most elegant boat I have yet worked on. She is a William Fife designed 6 metre racing yacht built in his family yard at Fairlie on the Clyde in 1912. Much of the backbone and the larch lower planking has been replaced and now we are selectively...
by Martin Hargreaves | Jul 28, 2014 | refit and repair
All boats are to a greater or lesser extent built to a price; this means that even well build new boats can benefit from some careful additions. Parker Yachts are well known for their build quality and in latter years the internal joinery was particularly high...
by Martin Hargreaves | Jun 17, 2014 | personal, Sailing, wooden boats
Although he lives on the the isle of Skye, Iain Oughtred is in fact Australian and was born in the outskirts of Sidney. During the many years he has lived in Britain, Iain has become one of our most highly regarded designers of small wooden boats with well over 100...
by Martin Hargreaves | Jun 5, 2014 | refit and repair, wooden boats
Estralita, a 20 foot clinker motorboat spent much of her life carrying tourists in Salcombe harbour. She is now around a hundred years old and in need of a fair amount of repair. One of the most troublesome leaks was around the the stem where an old repair in the stem...
