The Southampton Boat show 2007

Some kits and boats to inspire the amateur builder

Greenway Marine.
A choice - kit, half built and fully built. Info here:
http://www.barrowboat.com/

All marine ply construction, with hard-wood trim. All epoxy-glued together. Again, very, very nice finish to the boats, but then I would show my best at an international show too.

Along the same lines:
Lakeland Wooden Boats.
Hmmm, they need to get their site up and running if they are going advertise it:
http://www.lakelandwoodenboats.com/

Very nice little traditional designs, clinker hulls, but looks like they are glued together with epoxy. Neat and shiny. All overlapping panels have been filleted to the next with what looked like West's fairing compound, before being varnished. Makes for very neat joins!

However, there is a mention of the builder here:
http://www.classicmarine.co.uk/gallery/open_boats.htm

Under the sub-heading of "Oyster"
A very nice 19 footer:
Honnor Marine.
Web link:
http://www.honnormarine.co.uk/navpg2/navpg2.htm

And the boat of theirs that we admired, the Cape Cutter 19:
http://www.capecutter19.com/

What was remarkable about this little beauty was having four berths, cooking and washing facilities (basic, but they are there), and space for a porta-potti.
Show special was £20k for the whole package - including trailer, which I think is not unreasonable! As my friend with me on the day remarked, he would have more fun and time on this boat than he'd like ever have on a 35 foot Princess or £3 million Sunseeker!
Too true.

Cornish Shrimpers and Crabbers:
http://www.selectyachts.co.uk/crabbershome.asp
A couple more traditional looking boats, Cornish Shrimper in the background with a Crabber in the foreground: Makes you think a Crab is a 'baby' shrimp.

Very similar to other's viewed at the show - GRP hull with wooden trim.

Character Boats:
Info here:
http://www.characterboats.co.uk/

This pic shows an awful lot of deck hardware for a relatively small boat. Looks nice though.

Very solid, well put together traditional sailing boats. But made of GRP, and hard-wood finishing. The 17' version we admired looked like it could quite easily be used for camping, with a sprayhood for protection. I wonder if a cockpit enclosure could be added? My Kind of compactness. I like.

Memory 19:
I think this is my favourite boat on display...
Info:
http://www.salternsboatbuilders.co.uk/memory19.html
Memory 19 gaff rig...
I didn't find out much about this, but it sure is pretty! It looks like wood, but is another traditional-looking GRP hull.

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Tim Hague aka WobblyLegs, Southampton September 2007