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Limited edition
Peggy Bawn Press have created a leather-bound limited edition ultimate luxury version of the well received G.L. Watson – The Art and Science of Yacht Design. This handcrafted custom edition comes bound...
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Classic Boat
“G.L. Watson, Britain’s Greatest Yacht Designer” That’s the no holds barred title of a new article by Martin Black in November’s Classic Boat magazine – out now. It’s beautifully illustrated with...
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Seawards The Great Ships
Maritime and offshore news website gCaptain recently got pretty excited about some remarkable ship launching footage from Croatia. We are reminded of the much older but no less remarkable late 1950s...
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Nappa leather
New images of our Nappa leather-bound limited edition of G.L Watson – The Art and Science of Yacht Design are up at the Peggy Bawn Press website here. IM
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Future archive
The Ballast Trust to the rescue.University of Glasgow / Ballast Trust Meticulously researched and referenced books, like Martin Black’s G.L. Watson – The Art and Science of Yacht Design, depend on the...
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Inconspicuous consumption
“[Art is] a lot more sophisticated than a yacht” – The Art Market’s editor, Melanie Gervis. Fascinating article by Jon Henley in today’s Guardian. Art for art’s sake, or art as a commodity? Is anything...
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Canada’s oldest sailboat
Fabulous film treatment by Canadian documentary film maker Tobi Elliott on the joy of restoring a beautiful, old, interesting yacht: Dorothy, designed by G.L. Watson contemporary Linton Hope in 1897. IM
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Art and craft
Twenty fabulous stained glass panels celebrating the trades that fuelled Glasgow as the 19th Century powerhouse of empire – among them the skills that gave form to G.L. Watson’s yacht designs – were...
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Inclining test
The launch of a new – very pretty – sail training vessel last week at Damen Shipyards Galaţi, Romania. We guess she passed the inclining test… And some different viewpoints, here and here. The client...
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Coastal Rowing 3
What the sea oar sees – a different take on coastal rowing from St. Michael’s Rowing Club, Dún Laoghaire. Which reminds us… we hugely enjoyed a 2013 summer’s day at the seaside watching the coastal...
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Scottish Boating
Our friend and blogger, Ewan Kennedy, shares his passion for all things Clyde and West of Scotland nautical – especially the wonderful cult of small boat building, sailing and rowing there, and the...
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How to buy our books
G.L. Watson spotted at The Tree Shop, Loch Fyne.(Argyll and the Isles App) Peggy Bawn Press was created by Irish yachting historian, Hal Sisk, to publish Martin Black’s remarkable biography of Scottish...
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In the boatshed
Martin Black’s G.L. Watson – The Art and Science of Yacht Design features today at Gavin Atkin’s excellent in the boatshed blog, which has rapidly become essential daily reading, and U.K. trad-boat...
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Art and cheeriness
Paper Boat, 80ft loa, profile, plan and body section by George Wyllie, 1988.© George Wyllie Foundation Archive My first close encounter with the work of scul?tor (that’s not a typo), George Wyllie...
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Vulcan lifeboats
G.L. Watson’s lifeboat designs feature strongly in Gavin Atkin’s recent in the boatshed blog post on Thames Ironworks Heritage Trust’s ambitious plans to revive the memory of a forgotten Leviathan of...
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Ireland to starboard, or port?
The Dromineer Literary Festival recently described Irish maritime journalist, author and historian, W.M. “Winkie” Nixon as: “…a sailing journalist who writes like a poet and whose love for his subject...
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Pride of Portree
Wednesday night grunt in the Row St Kilda to Skye training boat.(Row St Kilda to Skye) They said it themselves: “one of the most hair-brained projects Skye has seen for some time.” We would add:...
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A new Watson for the weekend – No. 274
Is this the first yacht built to a design by Glasgow-based naval architect to the world, G.L. Watson, since his untimely death in 1904 at the age of 53?* A brief glimpse of daylight for the new Hubert...
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A sporting combination
Steam Yacht Vanduara, with the ½-Rater Nita supported in her starboard quarter davits.(Iain McAllister coll.) Summer 1893. Paisley ‘thread baron’ Stewart Clark’s rakish c.200ft G.L. Watson designed...
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