I’m delighted to be able to say that the Ninigret I built last year has been featured in Woodenboat Magazine’s Small boat Annual. It’s quite a coup as my boat is the only non-American built boat in the Annual. A lot of readers have been kind enough to compliment me on the boat.

Here are a few pertinent quotes:

“Ninigret’s hull lines show a boat that is long, lean and light everything that an efficient powerboat should be.”

“Atkin & Company designed over 800 boats, many of them motorboats and many design themes similar to Ninigret were returned to and refined again and again over the course of many years. Perhaps there can be no greater recommendation for this design than to point out that she is the boat John Atkin chose for his own use in his retirement. He and his wife, Pat, enjoyed countless picinics and cruises in Ninigret, in Long Island Sound.”

“… great looking boats that do their jobs really well.”

Seasons greeting to all my readers and if you’re thinking about having a boat built be sure to give me ring +353 (0)86 158 6937 or e-mail roeboats@ymail.com to discuss your boat.

Roeboats, Ballydehob, Co. Cork, t:+353 (0)28 38973 m: +353 (0)86 158 69 37 e:roeboats@ymail.com

It’s been too cold in the workshop the last few days to do any of the painting or epoxying that I needed to do. The roads are just too slippy to risk going to pick up materials for the next project. So I got this down off the shelf to keep me busy while I wait for it to warm up.
Is this the longest model boat-building project ever? Probably! It was started by my father in the mid fifties, I think, and lay on the top shelf in his workshop for my entire life. Until, that is, he moved house and had to clear out his workshop. I thought it was high time that the model was finished. I have the spars and sails that he made all those years ago and I’ve glued up the waterline pieces . There’s also a keel section which I will add later when I have the main hull shaped.

So if you’ve ever thought of having your own beautiful wooden boat don’t wait any longer, before you know it life might have passed you by. Get a move on and contact Tiernan Roe to discuss having your dream boat built so that you can enjoy it with your family and friends. Sixty years is way too long to wait for a boat.

Roeboats, Ballydehob, Co. Cork, t:+353 (0)28 38973 m: +353 (0)86 158 69 37 e:roeboats@ymail.com

Well here’s a very crude photo of test rigging the Karl Stambaugh Catbird 16. I took the photo with my phone as unfortunately on my journey back from Norway where I spent 2 weeks working at the Hardanger Ship Preservation Centre I lost my camera with all of my photos. I’m only just recovering. So unfortunately you won’t be seeing the process of removing a 1930s single cylinder petrol parafin engine from a 1916 Norwegian fishing boat. Or the building of two wooden lifeboats for a classic motor vessel or lots and lots of other cool stuff that I got to see when I was there. There’s only one attractive solution that I can see and that’s to go back and do it all again.

Anyway back to the photo as you can see it’s the Catbird 16 lugsail yawl sharpie that I finished before I went to Norway. I tried on the suit of sails to see how they fitted and they fit pretty good. The location of the yard halyard needs to tweaked and the mizzen sail could be a bit lower but it’s not bad for a trial run using a few bits of string to hold it all together.

If your interested in having your own boat built why not e-mail me or better still give me a ring +353 (0)28 38973 or mobile +353 (0)86 1586937 I look forward to talking to you.

Roeboats, Ballydehob, Co. Cork, t:+353 (0)28 38973 m: +353 (0)86 158 69 37 e:roeboats@ymail.com

Just to let you know that Roeboats custom wooden boat builder have launched a new web-site. I spent the last while thinking about how I would like the site to look like and I finally knuckled down over the last few days. So with some very useful feedback from my friend Conor Cahill I’ve put the new look Roeboats.com together. I hope you like it and of course if you can think of anything that might improve it or you spot anything that’s not working  please let me know.

Roeboats, Ballydehob, Co. Cork, t:+353 (0)28 38973 m: +353 (0)86 158 69 37 e:roeboats@ymail.com