by Martin Hargreaves | Nov 11, 2015 | News, Wild Goose
Every now and again a boat comes along that leads me to break my rule about not buying any more boats. The excuses this time are: She is a well known local boat with a local sail number and a reputation for sailing well so she should be easy enough to sell when she is...
by Martin Hargreaves | Apr 23, 2015 | News
Natural England amongst many other jobs, looks after coastal nature reserves so inevitably they need boats. This run-about GRP dory is definitely useful rather than pretty. It seems generally well put together but whilst the bow locker is nicely made out of iroko,...
by Martin Hargreaves | Apr 23, 2015 | News
Boat building involves a lot of transferable skills and from time to time this gets me involved in projects which have nothing to do with boats. Sometimes I do my best to keep out of this sort of thing especially when it starts to involve MDF, chipboard and similar...
by Martin Hargreaves | Dec 11, 2014 | News
Just a bit of shameless self promotion! This is the diploma of the International Boatbuilding Training College awarded with distinction – I am very proud of it because it represents a great deal of work and achieving a high standard across a wide range of...
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....
