Mr. Thorburn has been a busy fellow. In the photo above, he's standing next to his Weekender "Harmony". He's helped Mr. Gordon Applebee & The Second Shawbridge Sea Scouts build "Badger", their Weekender. He also helped Mr. Michel Girard build his Skipjack!
All in all, it sounds like Vince has been a driving force in his area. At 70 years, we think Vince has the current "Oldest Member" status for the B.Y.Y.C. He built "Harmony" as a fall-back project after his family vetoed the idea of a Mini-Max ultralight (I'm fairly sure we have a set of those plans ourselves...). We're glad he went ahead with the Weekender, and want to extend our thanks for his mentoring role in the local building scene. We would love to see more people getting involved the way Vince has.
Here are a few links to boats Vince has had a hand in recently:
Vince's own page on his Weekender Harmony
The Second Shawbridge Sea Scouts Page
This page was posted by Mr. Gordon Applebee to showcase the
terrific job he and his Sea Scouts did on "Badger"!
They also have pictures of a river cruise they took soon after
launching. They took "Wind In The Willows" to heart!
This is a great page, and it looks like they had a great adventure!
This shot above is Harmony and Badger rafted up. I assume this was taken on the great voyage the two boats made with the Sea Scouts.
Here we see Badger motor-sailing (shot taken from Harmony).
Here are few of the Sea Scouts, Vince, Gordon, and the Weekenders Harmony and Badger waiting for the ebb or flow of the lock...