Photos, videos & links

Ilurs

Roger Barnes with "Avel Dro"

John Hartmann's "Waxwing"

Jean-Pierre Scheerlinck's "Elandra"

Sicily

A good start with interior

A strip built canoe designed and built by us more than 15 years ago

Videos

First launching of the lovely self-built misanier-rigged "Aries" by the family van der Post in Friesland. The Aries won two prestigious prices at the Dutch Wooden Boat Festival.

A beautiful "raid" by Roger Barnes among the islands in the Venice archipelago.

It is a good idea to learn how to scull a boat with a single oar over the transom.......

Three Ilurs with different rigging doing "walkabout" in Friesland

A small boat with a very shallow draft thanks to a retractable swing keel and an easily collapsible rig is perfect for river and canal sailing. This young couple navigateted a long distance on the Danube, all the way from Austria to the Black Sea!

Video playlist of sailing "sail & Oar" boats by Roger Barnes, President of The Dinghy Cruising Association