_3513 Kippen Boatyard "<p>Being so far inland, Kippen is not somewhere you would expect to\u00a0find a boat builders! Boats used to be fully built and fitted out in\u00a0Kippen before being transported to Greenock. Kippen boat builders,\u00a0James and Niven Miller, moved to Kippen from St Monans in Fife in\u00a01937 and started building clinker boats and then lifeboats. Clinker\u00a0boats developed in Northern Europe and are built with the hull planks\u00a0overlapping each other, it is a style of boat building that has been\u00a0around since medieval times.\u00a0A variety of tools and other interesting historic artefacts will be on\u00a0display for visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Limited disabled access.<\/p>" Organization "<p>Being so far inland, Kippen is not somewhere you would expect to\u00a0find a boat builders! Boats used to be fully built and fitted out in\u00a0Kippen before being transported to Greenock. Kippen boat builders,\u00a0James and Niven Miller, moved to Kippen from St Monans in Fife in\u00a01937 and started building clinker boats and then lifeboats. Clinker\u00a0boats developed in Northern Europe and are built with the hull planks\u00a0overlapping each other, it is a style of boat building that has been\u00a0around since medieval times.\u00a0A variety of tools and other interesting historic artefacts will be on\u00a0display for visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Limited disabled access.<\/p>" 55.86362 -4.261207