http://www.nemaritimetrust.co.uk/2010/02/golden-gleam/ We Just Love Old Boats! Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:53:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.nemaritimetrust.co.uk/2010/02/golden-gleam/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Peter Weightman Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:30:49 +0000 http://www.nemaritimetrust.co.uk/?p=230#comment-23 Yes, Golden Gleam looks very like Peggy, but didn't they all look like that in those days? They are very like the old Cambridge Bros boats but all of them closely follow the same tradition. Ralph Dawson did have a man from Amble for a while, after he started building new boats. However, Ralph had been repairing older cobles for years before he started building new ones like Golden Gleam. Who can say what his influences were? Yes, Golden Gleam looks very like Peggy, but didn’t they all look like that in those days? They are very like the old Cambridge Bros boats but all of them closely follow the same tradition. Ralph Dawson did have a man from Amble for a while, after he started building new boats. However, Ralph had been repairing older cobles for years before he started building new ones like Golden Gleam. Who can say what his influences were?

]]> http://www.nemaritimetrust.co.uk/2010/02/golden-gleam/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Mick Dawson Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:47:18 +0000 http://www.nemaritimetrust.co.uk/?p=230#comment-19 Look very like Peggy, 28ft built at Harrison's in Amble in the 1920's. Is it likely that Dawson's Boat Builders in Seahouses had people that had been trained at Harrison's. Look very like Peggy, 28ft built at Harrison’s in Amble in the 1920’s. Is it likely that Dawson’s Boat Builders in Seahouses had people that had been trained at Harrison’s.

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