Much to my disappointment I was 2 planks short of my personal deadline for Christmas but with a few hours rushing around speed planking before the Christmas Eve Eve party I managed to wedge the final bow plank in place. Which to my surprise was a dam fine fit and not a fault could be […]
Life in The Yard
Although these posts are mainly about the trials and tribulations of building boats I’m hoping that I’ve written them in a way that any Dick or Harry can read, laugh and enjoy.
In Sickness and In Boats
For those of you that know me personally or through the viral webs of facebook you’ll have noticed I have been moaning and groaning all week about being struck with some kind of evil brand of flu. After surviving a 10 hour drinking session on Sunday for one of the yards many Christmas parties, I […]
Calling all Single Electricians!
Calling all single electricians! I have decided after what can only be described as an evening from hell that I need to get a boyfriend and he needs to be an electrician. So I got home from work and for a change I had a clean saucepan. So I heated myself up a nice tin […]
Re-Inventing the Floating Wheel
It took me a long time to gain the confidence to develop my own methods of working in the yard. The way a 6ft 2 man would get something done is not the way a 5ft nothing girl would do it. I love learning from the experts and absorbing all the knowledge they have to […]
How to be a grown up
So who ever read my “getting laid to feel like a lady” post will know that I’m single. Apologies for its disappearance but my family were less than impressed and with some guilt and their general prudish nature made me take it down. However, this blog isn’t supposed to be just about boats. It’s about […]
My Restoration, for The Boat Nerds, The Feminists and The Curious
I’ve always been one of those people that’s pretty good at everything but never excellent at anything. Otherwise known as a jack of all trades but a master of none. Until I discovered boat building. I don’t mean to blow my own trumpet and I am still learning every day but I’m pretty bloody good […]
When Am I a BoatBuilder
So in our pretty inadequate education system, according to Colchester Asylum I can call myself a Boat Builder after a 2 year apprenticeship that covered the basics and drowned me in pointless paperwork. This is wrong. In the good old days you trained for 7 years, worked in 3 different yards and only then could […]
My Grubby Self in a Floating Nutshell
As a first post and a hello to the world, I thought I’d give ya a little insight into my boat based bubble. Unlike my younger more sociable self that used to spend most evenings in the pub, learning from the old, winding up the girls n chatting up the guys. I now […]