What Afloat readers got up to during lockdown - Afloat Magazine - What Afloat readers got up to during lockdown | Afloat Magazine

Sailors are not likely to sit on their thumbs during a global pandemic so click on the gallery below to see how a few Afloat readers kept themselves salted without going nuts …

Riding out the pandemic in Central America Kevin Green “was bored yesterday so grabbed an old tin sheet and bamboo and built a wee canoe for the local river where the Caimans watched me glide past. Not quite a sea-going vessel yet so unsure about escape to Oz on it”.

Riding out the pandemic in Central America Kevin Green “was bored yesterday so grabbed an old tin sheet and bamboo and built a wee canoe for the local river where the Caimans watched me glide past. Not quite a sea-going vessel yet so unsure about escape to Oz on it”. — An old tin sheet and bamboo built a wee canoe

Grandad Russ Clement used the lockdown time to outfit the crew

Gemma Rasdal gave her yacht a Gypsy den style makeover

Spa Regatta Budgewoi, very poor turnout! Rob Tickner

Locked down but not out. Designed and built a dinghy, snuck out to Bunnings for two sheets of ply and strips of pine, had some epoxy at home so got to it, stich-n-glue 1.94m x 1.2m, weight 21kg. Colin McGregor

Colin McGregor built a dinghy

Regattas were cancelled as was the local tennis club at Hervey Bay so I took to a painting of Amity yachts moored at the QCYC marina awaiting the start of the regatta. Note artistic licence was used to create the shed in the backdrop rather than the old container. Keith Buhr