Welcome to the UK Home Built Boat Rally
Formed in 2006 by Alec Jordan, UK-HBBR is a loose collection of like-minded individuals with a common interest in building boats at home. The aim is to organise several meetings around the country where home boat builders can get together to have a chat, see each others boats, sail in other boats, and talk about the trials, tribulations and rewards of building your own boat.
Details of meetings past and future will be posted on the forum.
Our new Forum has attracted a number of new members many of whom are planning to take part in our rallies, it will be great to meet them.
We often meet informally at the Beale Park Boat Show, which always attracts a good number of us.
If you’ve built a boat, are planning to, or just want to come along to see what its all about, we’d love to see you.
There is no membership fee, formal organisation, or red tape. If you have read this far consider yourself a member. If you want to keep up with the gossip and chat between meetings, sign up for the forum. You’ll find a link at the top of the page.
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To join in the HBBR discussion and find out what we are doing please see our forum.
There’s a link at the top of this page.
By: portnastorm on April 2, 2011
at 10:37 pm
Back in 1975 living in Althorne Essex,Iused to keep my dinghy in a local boatyard and
frequently found it had been vandalised or borrowed,so I decided to design one that
was easy to transport,big enough to handle estuary chop in the trip out to my yacht
on its mooring,but not take too much space in the garage,so many contradictions!
The result was “Maverick” a 10ftx4.5ft dinghy.which folded over and became a
Trailer 5ftx4.5ft on its own road/launching trailer.It had all marine gear stowed inside
including outboard,oars,mast&spars .I obtained the patent on it and had a mold made
from it and it was then made in GRP.by NAIAD MARINE at Milton Keynes.I still have the original drawings and at 77yrs gave the last one to a Sea Scout group.
By: David on February 27, 2011
at 10:53 am
Hi David, Thanks for leaving a comment.
The comments on this web site are not monitored very often, If you’d like to find out what HBBR are up to and take part in the discussion please join us on our forum , you’ll find the link at the top of the page.
Regards Graham.
By: Graham on April 2, 2011
at 9:45 pm
Hello Alec
Hope you are keeping well.
I see Water Craft have published your up coming event. Which side of the Severn is it?
Best regards
Mike Worthington
[Goat Island Skiff - Lily]
By: MIKE WORTHINGTON on February 24, 2011
at 2:14 pm
Hi Mike, Thanks for leaving a comment.
Alec Jordan has taken a back seat as he’s too busy building St Aylis’ Skiffs up in Fife.
The comments on this web site are not monitored very often, If you’d like to find out what HBBR are up to and take part in the discussion please join us on our forum , you’ll find the link at the top of the page.
Regards Graham.
By: Graham on April 2, 2011
at 9:47 pm
Hi all,
just found this excellent site after reading about the Barton rally in WaterCraft magazine.
In the past I have built a number of plywood boats, Percy Blandford’s 12′ sailing dinghy, 9′ Curlew Sailing Dinghy, a number of canoes, Den Aston Longboat, and restored/rebuilt 2 Lysanders, a Silhouette, YM Senior. Designed and built a 16′ sailing cruiser many years ago along with a number of small tenders. Moved to Norfolk in 1992 and have owned and restored 10 wooden broads sailing cruisers and a couple of motor boats. Currently restoring a 1954 carvel built 20′ broads half decker with a small cuddy.
This site has a wealth of useful and interesting information for the kind of boating I enjoy so I would very much like to become a member and try to get to your next Barton Broad event,
kindest regards
Mat Gravener
By: Mat Gravener on January 5, 2011
at 12:33 pm
Hi Matt, It would be great to see you at Barton Turf.
The comments on this web site are not monitored very often, If you’d like to find out what HBBR are up to and take part in the discussion please join us on our forum , you’ll find the link at the top of the page.
Regards Graham.
By: Graham on April 2, 2011
at 9:49 pm
Hi everyone, I’m building a Selway Fisher Lynx 16. so far it’s going ok, i’ve built the hull, the bulkheads are fitted but none of the interior is finished. Building has slowed down now that the cold weather is here. Has anyone any experience of using epoxy in low temps?
By: Mike Pearl on December 17, 2010
at 5:36 pm
Hi Mike,
There are a couple of people who have built Lynx 14′s who are regular members of HBBR. We also have a few people who regulary use epoxy down to 0 degrees, myself included.
The comments on this web site are not monitored very often, If you’d like to find out what HBBR are up to and take part in the discussion please join us on our forum , you’ll find the link at the top of the page.
Regards Graham.
By: Graham on April 2, 2011
at 9:51 pm
HI DOES ANYBODY KNOW ANYBODY WHO HAS BUILT THE SELWAY FISHER 12 6″ MEDWAY DOBLE I WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION ON IT. MANY THANKS TONY
By: anthony on July 30, 2010
at 11:11 am
PS I posted some pics of the Amble up the Hamble
http://bursledonblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-joined-hbbr-uk-home-built-boat-rally.html
By: Max on November 8, 2009
at 9:22 am