Coracle

[Bill Perkins]

http://koti.kapsi.fi/hvartial/coracle/corac_01.jpgAnybody want one ?

This old guy was operating along the river Severn in Wales . The worlds first iron bridge is in the background .Building plans and further lore here : http://koti.kapsi.fi/hvartial/coracle/coracle.htm

[Clencher]

Here’s one ‘in the frame’:

http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL370/9115650/16752884/335989864.jpg

And here’s one afloat, with a youngster learning the ropes. 1950s. River Teifi, West Wales.

http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL370/9115650/16752884/335989863.jpg

When I was a kid in Junior School we went on a trip to see the coracles on the Teifi. I wangled a go in one. Being used to a 14ft clinker boat I found it, er, a little unstable. The coracle guys also showed us their salmon nets, and one guy had scars all up his arm. “What’s all those scars” I said being a nosey horrible kid. “Otters” he said, “They get tangled up in the nets sometimes and the ungrateful things bite when we are getting them out”

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

http://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=5350


I was over in the west last year and saw a guy selling coracles by the side of the Teifi.

[Jay Greer]

A great oportunity to become aquainted with nautical circles!
Jay

[Clencher]

Did you buy one PISTN? Be just the job on the Nedd Fechan in a flood.

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

Did I nothing of the sort - though I've seen a cardboard one taken down the Dee by the Chain Bridge Hotel in spate conditions...

[Canoez]

Did I nothing of the sort - though I've seen a cardboard one taken down the Dee by the Chain Bridge Hotel in spate conditions...

I always thought that the Dee was pretty 'boney' up near Llangollen... Even when the water was up... That's gotta hurt.

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G5H9jo_dS0 << Low water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxS77eVThmY << Bigger.
The big S at the bottom has some interesting sub-surface currents if you paddle an ultra-low volume boat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EezNbIlMNUg <<<kosher spate, town fall first.