John’s Blogspot Archive

Roger Barnes, President of the English Dinghy Cruising Association interviews John Welsford about himself and his wooden boat designs that are "fit...

Roger Barnes, President of the English Dinghy Cruising Association visited New Zealand to check out the New Zealand Dhingy Cruising scene. Watch...

I’ve been playing with the rig, the sails, and the settings on Spook, each little change has seen a slight improvement in her windward performance,...

This was supposed to be the “summer of the paintbrush”, and yes, I have got quite a bit of that done but for a while there it was the “month of the...

Its been far too long since the last time I had Kairos out of the water for a scrub and antifouling, so she had quite the oyster and barnacle farm...

Comfort, and I think I’ve said this before, can be a whole lot of small things that add up to an elimination of all the annoying things that just...

I’ve a boat in for repair.  Not my usual thing, but in this case the customer wants his boat ready to go for the nearly upon us summer holiday...

Its springtime here, the temperatures at night are still a bit chilly, especially up on the mountain lakes but the daytimes are lovely.  We had...

Mast making. Reinforcing an aluminium tube spar with a birdmouth inner plus solid blocking. I’ve been given a mast blank,  a 5m long x 75, od, 5mm...

Long Steps is coming along. Progress, a little at a time but progress nevertheless.  With the hull and most of the internal structure all...

With some of my other commitments dealt with and the weather warming a bit, the start of spring being just a week away, I'm getting a bit done on...