The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
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Clinker Cup Report 2025
It's a delightfully informal and un-serious get-together where boats and their stories are the main game. That's not to say that the personnel attending aren't serious players. Wayne Parr, Tim Helliwell, Chris Johnson and others from the Wooden Boat Shop are all experienced professional shipwrights who brought their own small vessels.
ATHENA & Len Randell
Although he designed racing and cruising yachts, it was fishing boats that launched his commercial career. The introduction of high-powered diesel engines was a significant change and needed someone able to calculate the power and propeller requirements, along with the best hull shape and construction, if the craft was to achieve its desired performance
It’s a SCOOP
The Couta Boat Association has posted a wonderful record of the early years of the Class on its website. There are about 50 Editions of “SCOOP” on line, starting 42 years ago in 1981 and ending in 2011.
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