Hello Dick, I am so glad that you have finally got your book, I fely a bit responsible as it ws me that mentioned it in the first place. I hope that you will...
Hi all I'm also planning to do the trip for the first time this year . My general plan was to give Bruce a bell the week before , then meet up at sudbury or...
Hello Colin, I guess you were the trigger to me actually finding and ordering it, but I had heard of it before and was keeping my eyes open. I certainly...
Hi Steve and anyone else doing S2C, The camp site is at Rushbanks farm Wissington which is on the road between Bures and Nayland. From Sudbury to Wissington is...
A full sized curragh sounds great, mine had be scaled down to fit the roof of my narrow boat (and car), the length of the willow I could scrounge for the...
Hi Colin, it sounds like you have the same problem as some of the shorter canoes. The fastest natural speed through the water is related to the waterline...
Colin (again) I propose to make the whole thing from pallets including the ribs and stringers laminated where necessary. A good glue for laminating is Forbo...
Hi Chris, I would go for it, but how are you going to Lugg it to London?(sorry) If beach volleyball why not coracles? I think you may have problems getting the...
Hi Chris, Bitumastic paint is a fairly recent method of waterproofing coracles. It is cheep has a traditional look to it and it works. There are various...
Hi Dick, If I did try a sail on my curragh I reckon it would tip me in, unless I lie on the bottom as ballast. The narrow beam and rounded hull make it pretty...
Hi Colin, You mean dig a sort of trough in the water for the boat to run into, using a propeller. I think if this worked we would see lots of boats with front...
I think you could get your currach to sail, I sail my canoe ok but it is not very fast and does not sail very close to the wind. I have not capsised yet, I...
This is a fscinating discussion - way over my head - but, having done a little bit of coracling, canoeing and kayaking myself, can I add something? Racing...
Please tell me that I do not have a subtle-enough sense-of-humour and that you are both joking about the barmy Olympics thing. What about Olympic sack-racing...
A person called Nigel came by my house this morning and started taking interest in the Kerry 2-handed naomhóg (curach)outside my house, and one thing led to...
Using the phrase canvas curach might be a bit misleading. In Conemara there is a wooren boat type called a wooden curach (curach adhmad) and canvas curach is...
Hi, I have made various coracle now, Ironbridge, GRP, my hideous aluminium thing, I also ask to try almost every coracle I can. The one thing that intrigues me...
Hi Richard, welcome to the group, This discussion all started of because of a book and DVD "The Canvas Currach by Cian de Buitlear. This depicts the bulding...
Hi again, I don't think there are any builders in mainland UK. A few members have had a go with varying degrees of success. it is difficult to build something...
Yes,I will take and send photos of the one I have here. Many of my pictures are pre-digital, which makes it more diffcult. You could al;ways come and see it,...
Hi Richard, have removed posting restrictions, so no longer moderated. I may get Hay next year, in which case I will look you up, looking forward to the...
The internal picture was taken upside down, with the curach still on the trailer, but it may give some idea of the detail of the ribs and gunwale, foot...
Yes, you have hit the nail on the head Paul. I put a lot of rocker in the hull so that the transom would be clear of the water for a really clean exit line....
Hi Chris, thanks for the plug, but it is unlikely I will be building any more of my plastic coracles. The materials are getting very expensive, and in anycase...
Hi Richard, I think there must be something amiss with my settings as I got the messages, but not the photos, could you upload them to files or photo's please,...
Keep up the banter I like it,but limpic coracle racing would need identical coracles,and traditionally made coracles are all different made by hand and eye and...
Hi Richard and others Welcome Richard and very good to meet you the other day. It was indeed me who stopped alongside the road when I spied the curach on my...
Hi Q, The coracles do not have to be the same to race them, even in the Olympics, but they would have to conform to a set of rules, such as having a frame...
