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ELECTRIC DREAMS

Over the last 20 years at the No 1 Covered Slipway in Plymouth, Stirling and Son have built 57 new clinker dinghies alongside the longer back to back restoration projects on their big slipways.

Yard experience shows that, if you can build a dinghy you can build a bigger boat. Dinghy building tolerances are so fine and the twists happening over such compressed distances that shipwrights find any work on a larger

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