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Peggy Bawn Press website

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Peggy Bawn Press

Pleased to report that everything is back to normal with the Peggy Bawn Press web site http://www.peggybawnpress.com/. Thanks for your messages of support. You can now return to purchasing our lovely books there! And don’t forget the many other possibilities … Continue reading →

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Sensuous and mental joys

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Peggy Bawn Press

It’s pleasing to hear about yacht designer, surveyor, sailmaker, yachtsman, paragon of octogenarian health and prolific author of really useful yachting books, Ian Nicolson, rubbing shoulders with fellow media and literary ‘heavyweights’, Sally Magnusson, James Robertson and Kirsty Wark, at … Continue reading →

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The Weekend Watson – Camilla

Posted on November 22, 2014 by Peggy Bawn Press

The sweet, varnished gaff cutter Camilla is one of a very special group of surviving yachts designed during the all too short lifetime of Glasgow naval architect and yacht designer, G.L. Watson (1851-1904). The business carrying his name continued – … Continue reading →

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The schooner Rainbow: “Design, copyright and exhibition”

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Peggy Bawn Press

An inherited fortune from the Turkey Red textile dyeing and printing industry of the Vale of Leven, Scotland, paid for 37-year-old Charles Orr Ewing’s magnificent G.L. Watson-designed schooner Rainbow, launched at Partick, Glasgow in 1898 – and now being replicated … Continue reading →

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The launch of the ‘Queen Mary’: ship 534

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Peggy Bawn Press

Originally posted on University of Glasgow Library Blog:
80 years ago today ship number 534, the Cunard White Star Liner built on the river Clyde by John Brown’s shipyard, was launched and given the name RMS Queen Mary. (DC101/1481/Q/4/Y7) The…

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Float your boat

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Peggy Bawn Press

Martin Black’s biography of Scottish yacht designer G.L. Watson pays homage to the side of his work that, reading between the lines, he found most worthwhile: improving the design of rescue lifeboats.* Both the design of lifeboats and their deployment … Continue reading →

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A sporting combination

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Peggy Bawn Press

Summer 1893. Paisley ‘thread baron’ Stewart Clark’s rakish c.200ft G.L. Watson designed steam yacht, Vanduara, poses with engines stopped. Clearly seen hanging in her starboard quarter davits is no ordinary ship’s boat. She is Clark’s son, J. Stewart’s extreme fin-and-bulb … Continue reading →

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In the boatshed

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Peggy Bawn Press

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 central. Order by 10:00 (GMT) Monday 16th December for … Continue reading →

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