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Jun 11
3 min

Search and rescue mission

Chapter 4 Fast forward to 2015 and Qiao and Paul, are looking for somewhere to live and run their architectural practice from. Whether i...

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May 28
1 min

A Star is Born

So, the Speights now needed to find a lucrative use for the putative Thames barge that was sitting in splendour in their back garden and ...

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May 16
1 min

Snark was not built in a day...

Chapter 2 So, having settled on a design, sourced some finance and found a build site, in 1997 the Speights; father David and son Nigel, ...

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May 6
2 min

In the beginning....

The story of how Snark came about is an intriguing one and not at all obvious. In the beginning a father and son , David and Nigel Speigh...

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Apr 28
1 min

boats and more boats...

Boats are an enduring theme in art from the very earliest civilisations to the present day. From bronze age Sweden and Ireland to Ancient...

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Apr 28
2 min

our daily bread..

I think I mentioned before that we make all of our bread on board. Our flours comes from Shipton Mill who make a fantastic range of flour...

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Apr 10
1 min

Last Easter....

The sun is shining here in Devon and we are sitting in our boatyard berth with fond memories of last Easter when we cruised around Tor Ba...

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Apr 2
1 min

....messing about in boats....

"Is it so nice as all that?" asked the mole, shyly... "Nice? It's the only thing," said the Water Rat solemnly, as he leaned forward for ...

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Apr 1
2 min

Covid responses....

Looking at our blogs of just three weeks ago makes me realise the speed at which the impact of the Covid-19 virus has hit us and many oth...

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