BBA students launch a clinker-built pilchard larker
This splendid 17ft larch on oak pilchard larker named Jessica Rose was built by Boat Building Academy students Ken Bromage, Christian Skeels and Ben Dixon. The photos by Jenny Steer and Emma Brice...
View ArticleBBA students build strip-planked Humber yawl to George Holmes’ Cassy design
Photos by Jenny Steer and Andy Blundy Boat Building Academy student Derek Thompson built a strip-planked George Holmes-designed Humber yawl with help from fellow students Christian Skeels and Ryan...
View ArticleBoat Building Academy student launch summer 2012 – you’re all invited!
The Boat Building Academy is due to launch the latest fleet of student boats into the harbour at Lyme Regis on the 13th June, and the public are invited help celebrate the achievements of those...
View ArticleThe BBA student summer launch: you are invited!
Take a look at the boats to be launched by this year’s BBA students: 13ft larch traditional clinker rowing and sailing boat, designed at the Academy 12ft ply-on-frame Glen-L Tiny Might runabout with...
View ArticleBBA students build a Eric Hvalsoe-designed rowing and sailing dinghy in cedar
Photos by Emma Brice, Philippa Gedge and Jenny Steer This lightweight Hvalsoe 16 rowing and sailing dinghy built in cedar was made by Boat Building Academy students Rob Murphy and Matt McGlade...
View ArticleBBA students build and launch a clinker Paul Gartside Skylark dinghy
This 14ft Paul Gartside-designed Skylark traditional clinker-built dinghy made by Boat Building Academy student Jim Higginson with help from fellow students Paddy Uniacke and Mark Bestford is planked...
View ArticleBBA students launch an 18ft Paul Gartside-designed cutter
Photos by Andy Blundy, Charlie Couture and Emma Brice This 18ft Paul Gartside-designed strip-planked cutter belonging to Boat Building Academy student Dominik Gschwind hit the water at the BBA’s...
View ArticleBoat Building Academy and National Maritime Museum Cornwall launch short...
The National Maritime Museum Cornwall and the Boat Building Academy have teamed up to run a series of short three- and five-day courses at the Falmouth museum’s premises. The first weekend course,...
View ArticleBBA student builds replica of 1916 Morgan Giles dinghy
Photos by Becky Joseph, Jenny Steer, Derek Thompson Boat Building Academy Ben Charny built a replica of Pip Emma, a 7 1/2ft clinker built stem dinghy originally built by Morgan Giles for his...
View ArticleBBA student launch December 2013 – catch up with the ITV News report
The Boat Building Academy’s December student launch seems to have gone off beautifully – ITV News was there to cover the story, and principal Yvonne Green reported 200 people turned up at Lyme Harbour...
View ArticleBoat Building Academy December 2013 launch – post no 1, a modified Hiawatha...
The Boat Building Academy’s class of March 2013 have been good all year so the sun shone brightly when they launched their eight newly built boats built during their course into Lyme Regis harbour on...
View ArticleBBA students build Herreshoff Biscayne Bay sailing skiff
Photos by Jenny Steer and Becky Joseph This Nat Herreshoff-designed Biscayne Bay sailing skiff was built by Boat Building Academy student Nick Roche and launched at the BBA student launch day at Lyme...
View ArticleThe BBA gets a new website
The Boat Building Academy folks down at Lyme are proud of their new website, and promises much more regular photos on the build diaries. I hope they don’t get glue on their precious cameras! The new...
View ArticleBBA students build 20ft Roger Dongray trailer-sailer
The 20ft Roger Dongray-designed Golant Ketch shown above was built by Boat Building Academy student Keith McIlwain on the BBA’s long course. (Photos by Liz Griffiths, Becky Joseph, Jon Pritchard and...
View ArticleBBA short courses for 2015 now online
The Boat Building Academy at Lyme Regis has written to say that its programme of short courses for 2015 is now online. BBA staffer Jane Cashin says that new courses included in next year’s programme...
View ArticleHow Britain shut the door on overseas boatbuilding students
Policies designed to control immigration have harmed boatbuilding training in this country, as this article in Classic Boat explains.
View ArticleAn invitation to the BBA student launch, 3rd December 2014
This is the BBA’s invitation to its next launch extravaganza. As usual I can’t tear myself away from my desk of travail – because of the need to earn a living – but I’m sure it will be a great event,...
View ArticleBBA December 2014 student launch photos
The Boat Building Academy’s class of March 2014 launched the boats built as part of their course under brilliant blue skies on 3 December. Here’s principal Yvonne Green’s report: ‘Two hundred people...
View ArticleBBA students build a 14ft Broome Runabout
Boat Building Academy students Joe Latimer and Alex Lyddon dipped the 14ft Broome Runabout they built on the Academy’s long course at the Academy’s student launch day December. The photos are by Jenny...
View ArticleBBA students launch a strip-planked Andrew Wolstenholme Mallard dinghy
Boat Building Academy student Tim Harrison launched this 12ft Andrew Wolstenholme Mallard dinghy at the annual early summer student launch. The photos are by Becky Brown, Paul Dyer and Jenny Steer. I...
View ArticleWoodworking skills at the BBA – Pete Bromwich’s experience
My long-time friend Pete Bromwich recently attended a 12-week woodworking skills course at the Boat Building Academy at Lyme Regis. Naturally, I was curious, and asked him to pen a shot report about...
View ArticleBBA students build a small faering
The traditionally built faering named Pingvin, was built by Boat Building Academy students Max Stembridge and Ben Walker-Riley, and was designed by Max’s naval architect father Peter Stembridge, whose...
View ArticleAn invitation – the Boat Building Academy student boat launch 2 December
If anyone is going and fancies penning a shortish report and sending over some photos, I would be most grateful! For a kind of preview, see the BBA students’ current projects in build.
View ArticleBBA students build a Robert Steward-designed Barbara Anne for the Thames
A crowd of around two hundred people joined the Boat Building Academy’s class of March 2015 at their student boat launch at Lyme Regis harbour in December. The first boat built by the students during...
View ArticleBoat Building Academy students launch a traditional Norwegian faering
Back in December a bunch of proud Boat Building Academy class members launched a clinker built Norwegian faering built to Iain Oughtred’s Elfyn plans. The boat was was built by student Neil Hammond and...
View ArticleBBA students build a Herreshoff 12½
Boat Building Academy students have built a gaff rigged strip-planked Herreshoff 12½ for the first time at the December student launch last year. Built of western red cedar and sheathed inside and out...
View ArticleBBA class of September 2015 launch their boats on the 9th June
A date for your diary: the Boat Building Academy has sent out an invitation to the next student launch on Thursday the 9th June. This season’s crop of boats include: 11ft 6in Iain Oughtred Guillemot...
View ArticleBoat Building Academy student launch 23rd November
It’s nearly time for one of the BBA’s great annual events – the autumn-winter student launch, which this year takes place at Lyme Regis on the 23rd November. (The photo above is from last year’s...
View ArticleBBA students build a Iain Oughtred Guillemot
The Boat Building Academy autumn student launch marking the end of the BBA’s 38-week long course this year took place just two days after much of the south-west of England had been battered by winds...
View ArticleBBA students build a glued clinker Christmas Wherry
Most of us, probably, have dreamed at some time of living by the sea and waking to the sound of waves on the shore. Thomasin Sage clearly has, and from December to February this year she was a live-in...
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