Personalised Boat Information
I started making the boats a few years ago as a rainy day activity to amuse my grand daughter, using local driftwood and given away to friends and relatives as presents.
They are not intended to be accurate models, but, hopefully, they have a flavour of the boats that I remember in the harbour of the small Devonshire town where I grew up.
Driftwood is becoming scarce as the Island beaches are always being cleaned, so I tend use old timber and wood panels from reclamation yards for the hulls, intead.
Small scrubbed twigs are still plentiful and they are used to create buoys and buffers and bits of seaweed, old wave-washed ropes and the dried skeletons of microscopic organisms are used to make the ‘nets, at the rear of the larger boats.
The boats are still painted by me and my grand daughter!
They are not intended to be accurate models, but, hopefully, they have a flavour of the boats that I remember in the harbour of the small Devonshire town where I grew up.
Driftwood is becoming scarce as the Island beaches are always being cleaned, so I tend use old timber and wood panels from reclamation yards for the hulls, intead.
Small scrubbed twigs are still plentiful and they are used to create buoys and buffers and bits of seaweed, old wave-washed ropes and the dried skeletons of microscopic organisms are used to make the ‘nets, at the rear of the larger boats.
The boats are still painted by me and my grand daughter!