Ben Crawshaw’s Light Trow appears in Wooden Boat magazine
One of the best Christmas presents for me this year has been the news that Ben Crawshaw’s very nice project Onawind Blue built to my Light Trow design has made the launchings section of the superb US...
View ArticleWinter fun in Spain with the Light Trow
Ben Crawshaw’s having fun chasing maximum speeds with his GPS While we’re living with the wettest and windiest winter weather I can remember, Ben Crawshaw has dressed up warm and is having a riot...
View ArticleIlaut thole pin photos from Ben Crawshaw
Thole pin photographed by Ben Crawshaw A series of posts about the traditional Spanish ilaut have appeared at Ben Crawshaw’s weblog The Invisible Workshop over the past few days. Interestingly, they’re...
View ArticleLight Trow Onawind Blue gets her new wings
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Light Trow Onawind Blue has a new set of standing lugsails Ben Crawshaw has given his Light Trow some new standing lugsails made especially for her. They’re obviously not the...
View ArticleLight Trow Onawind Blue celebrates her birthday in style
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Light Trow Onawind Blue armed to the teeth for a substantial open boat cruise along the Spanish East Coast. Photo by Ben Crawshaw From The Invisible Workshop: Tuesday, 24 June...
View ArticleThree hundred kilometres in a 15ft boat
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Light Trow Onawind Blue tied up somewhere on the Spanish coast Ben Crawshaw of The Invisible Workshop is back from a 300 kilometre trip in his boat Onawind Blue and, not...
View ArticleBen Crawshaw looks at the traditional boats of the Spanish coast
Top: barque de mitjana Sant Isidre at Barcelona. Bottom the intriguing hull of a polbeiro at a boat exhibition. Photos by Ben Crawshaw Ben Crawshaw of the Invisible Workshop has been putting up some...
View ArticleOnawind Blue becomes a Costa Brava celebrity
[ad#intheboatshed-post] I can’t resist showing readers these photos of Ben Crawshaw’s Onawind Blue at the centenary celebrations of the term Costa Brava. They were taken by Spanish boating weblogger...
View ArticleOnawind Blue arrives in Ibiza after crossing 68 miles of open Mediterranean sea
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Onawind Blue with her new sails back in April. Hopefully we’ll be able to replace this with a shot from Ibiza shortly! I’ve just heard that Ben Crawshaw sailing his Light Trow...
View ArticleDetermined and brave: Ben Crawshaw fixes his rudder and sails back to Spain...
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Onawind Blue some months ago after Ben fitted her with new sails Ben Crawshaw has successfully sailed home to Spain from Ibiza via the Columbrete Islands in his 15ft-something...
View ArticleBen Crawshaw finds rowing a little tiring
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Those of you with a cruel streak will laugh this video of Ben Crawshaw’s, while others, like me, will squirm uncomfortably in sympathy at his predicament out at sea with no...
View ArticleIntheboatshed.net highlights of 2009
[ad#intheboatshed-post] It’s almost impossible to pick out my favourite posts of the year – there are simply too many, and for too many different reasons. For example, the editor-residents of...
View ArticleBen Crawshaw’s Onawind Blue flies past in glorious sunshine
Ben Crawshaw sailing Onawind Blue in ‘entertaining’ conditions Not for the first time, in the middle of a grey British winter, Ben Crawshaw has posted a Youtube clip of himself enjoying sailing his...
View ArticleWater Craft magazine for March-April 2010 will be out very soon!
[ad#intheboatshed-post] The latest Water Craft will be with us any day It’s almost time for the next edition of Water Craft magazine to land on our doormats – so what’s in store this time around? Lots...
View ArticleThe new Light Trow
[ad#intheboatshed-post] The Mark 2 Light Trow The big news here is that Water Craft magazine is publishing an exciting series of articles about the Light Trow – two by the remarkable Light Trow pioneer...
View ArticleThe horizons of Ben Crawshaw
[ad#intheboatshed-post] It’s been an entertaining and cheering couple of days here at Intheboatshed.net Towers. Following yesterday’s jolly boat-nut’s outing to Turk’s boatyard at Chatham, today...
View ArticleBen Crawshaw’s weblogging again at The Invisible Workshop
We’re smiling from ear to ear after learning that Ben Crawshaw’s back to sailing and weblogging after a longish period of silence. His latest post brings the delightful news that his little boat has...
View ArticleA beautiful and touching short video made by friends of Ben Crawshaw
This is a lovely piece of film, but don’t let that distract you from noticing how Ben Crawshaw has the art of launching down pat – or the way he uses a topping lift to enable him to row efficiently....
View ArticleDon’t miss the new Dinghy Cruising Association website
I’d like to draw readers’ attention to the Dinghy Cruising Association’s splendid new website http://dinghycruising.org.uk. It has always been packed with goodies – articles on dinghy sailing and...
View ArticleLight Trow Onawind Blue flies past (reprise)
Ben Crawshaw sailing Light Trow Onawind Blue in ‘entertaining’ conditions I’ve posted this clip before, but can’t resist doing so again, after the chap who runs out local chandlery and I watched it...
View ArticleBen Crawshaw sails Light Trow Onawind Blue in the Semaine du Golfe du Morbihan
Ben Crawshaw Onawind Blue in the Golf de Morbihan. Photos by Mónica Sitjes Ben Crawshaw’s been having a lovely time sailing his Light Trow Onawind Blue in the Semaine du Golfe du Morbihan – as the...
View ArticleSan Francisco artist Lawrence LaBianca uses the Light Trow in his work
California artist Lawrence LaBianca has been using the hull of my Light Trow design in his artwork, we were delighted to learn this morning. Lawrence got in touch this morning to tell us that he’s...
View ArticleBen Crawshaw goes racing in Onawind Blue
A recent shot of Ben Crawshaw sailing his Light Trow Onawind Blue, photo by Toni Clapés Light Trow sailor Ben Crawshaw has reported on a windy race in which he took part in Onawind Blue – and received...
View ArticleHow Onawind Blue came to live in Ben’s new beach-side bar (and can’t you just...
Read all about it here; I’m guessing it may become a destination for small boat sailors. For more posts about Ben Crawshaw and the Light Trow (including free plans for building this flat-bottomed...
View ArticleBen Crawshaw’s book Catalan Castaway is available to order
I’m delighted to be able to announce that Ben’s colourfully illustrated 224-page book will be available from Lodestar Books in a few days and is now available to order, priced at £15 in the UK, £17...
View ArticleThe latest issue of the wonderful The Marine Quarterly and two books: Mike...
Novelist Sam Llewellyn’s other project, the unfailingly beautifully edited The Marine Quarterly, continues to impress, and I’m enjoying the new edition as much as I have each of the previous nine...
View ArticleA sailing Ella skiff in Catalonia
Catalonia-based writer and sailor Ben Crawshaw (of Light Trow fame and theinvisibleworkshop) has got in touch to say that together with friends a chap called Bosco has built this example of the...
View ArticleBen Crawshaw sails the Ella skiff
Theinvisibleworkshop weblogger, writer and small boat sailor Ben Crawshaw has been sailing the sailing version of the Ella skiff off the coast of Catalonia – and I am delighted by the review he has...
View ArticleBen Crawshaw’s book Catalan Castaway gets a splendid review from the Dinghy...
Light Trow sailor Ben Crawshaw’s book Catalan Castaway published by the excellent Lodestar Books has just received splendid reviews from not one but two writers in the latest edition of the Dinghy...
View ArticleOnawind Blue, back on the water and sailing joyfully
It’s great to see Light Trow builder, adventurer, weblogger and author Ben Crawshaw back on the water in his Light Trow, Onawind Blue – and having a damned good time sailing in company with his pal...
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