For all you builders of Caledonia Yawls, you might be interested
in subscribing to the free Duckworks
magazine 'Written by and for those wacky homemade boat builders'
- (that doesn't really include you of course - well maybe...) it's
well worth a look. Packed full of tips and resources.
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Interested in building a Eun Mara? See this excellent site about
the building of the Eun Mara Alistego.
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Many people, especially those with hectic lives, have dreamed
of leisurely cruising the world's most beautiful waters on a magnificent
yacht. If you are one of these people, Craig Youse invites you to
wake up, stop dreaming, and get busy sailing! As he says, the fact
is, most people can easily afford a well-built pocket yacht that
comes with the essential accommodations commonly associated with
more expensive, full size yachts. Sound like you? Visit the Perfect
Pocketyacht site.
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Around the world in an open boat? Yes its been done of course
- Anthony Steward did it in a modified 19' grp trailer yacht 'NCS
Challenger' in the early nineties. A great story.
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If you like The Aegre story, check out the Microcruiser
site maintained by Dave and Mindy Bolduc - I partlicularly like
their extensive listing of significant small boat ocean voyages
- and the links - a great site
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A New Zealand based eMagazine, woodenboat.net.nz,
for builders, owners and admirers of wooden boats with lots of great
links. Crazybird had the honour of being named 'Boat of the Month'
on this site in September 2002.
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A piece about a Caledonia Yawl built by Bill
Boyd in Maine
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A couple of good pics of the Caledonia
Yawl 'Caledonia' , with the lug rig, at the Port Townsend Festival.
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The Voyage Alone in the Yawl
Rob Roy by McGregor - timeless....
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Wooden Boat Magazine -
a lot of visitors to Crazybird's site come via this magazine's site.
If you didn't maybe you'd like to go out that way...
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And not forgetting Classic
Boat magazine (good on 'ya Dan - keep it up)
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If you are interested primarily in cruising and The Aegre story,
don't miss the very comprehensive Cruisenews
site.
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Oughtred is strongly influenced by Scandinavian
small boat design. This site contains a whole range of them.
Click on "Båtritningar" and then click on the Drawing
you are interested in.
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The story of John
Ridgway and Chay Blyth's row across the North Atlantic in 1966
is fascinating. Aboard The Aegre we adopted a number of their ideas
very successfully. Follow this link for an account of the row.
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Scourie Hotel, on
the north west coast of Scotland where Julie and I both worked during
the final six months before we left aboard The Aegre, now has its
own website.....
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Sutherland
is the wild and wonderful far north-west of Scotland where we developed
the idea and prepared for The Aegre voyage. Well worth a visit if
you ever have the chance. Follow this link to go there virtually.
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St Kilda was our last sight
of the British Isles as we headed south aboard The Aegre. This small
group of islands is one of the remotest parts of Britain being 41
miles (66 kilometres) west of Benbecula in Scotland's Outer Hebrides.
This lovely website tells the story of the islands and people of
St Kilda, and their evacuation in 1930 after 5,000 years of occupation.
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Ken Leap is building a Caledonia Yawl in New Mexico - he started
by rendering a 3D
digital model - take a look!
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And another Caledonia Yawl being built, this one by Gary Spear,
here
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Classic Marine
is a wonderful chandlery in the UK, unlike any other. They supply
and make equipment for traditional and classic yachts around the
world. In their workshops, they can make - in bronze or galvanised
mild steel - whatever they can't buy. The superb jib furler on Crazybird
came from here. You can order by mail of course.
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If you think The Aegre was a small boat to be crossing oceans
in - well you ain't seen nothing.... take a look at this site for
a wealth of information on ocean crossing micro-cruising boats -
like the 3ft
11" Vera Hugh II which Tom McNally set out to sail E-W
across the Atlantic in 1998 - the boat was last reported to be in
the Canary Islands.
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The About directory (the 'human' Internet) has an excellent listing
of pages about classic
boats of note, particularly tallships, but also lots of other
more modest but interesting craft as well. Well worth a look.
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Marine
Waypoints.com is a very comprehensive directory of maritime
sites. US based. Includes a good section of personal pages with
lots of cruising stories.
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Duck Flat Wooden
Boats in Adelaide have lots of experienice with Oughtred designs,
sell the plans etc Some good pics on the site and lots of relevant
info on building these sorts of boats.
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ALONE
IN THE CARIBBEAN - Being the Yarn of a Cruise in the Lesser
Antilles in the Sailing Canoe "Yakaboo"
By Frederic A Fenger - Illustrated - Copyright 1917.
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The Mother of
all Maritime Links - if you haveen't been to this mega-site,
better take a look....
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