Blog, Boats, Painting

In 2007, I had the pleasure of reviving this 45 year-old Angelman wooden ketch. The boat’s mahogany hull, and spruce masts and bowsprit were stripped back to bare wood and restored to their former glory with high specification marine paint and traditional materials. This is how I did it. No pressure, but it has to [...]

Blog, Boats

Traditional craftsmen are like chicken’s teeth, but I have been fortunate to work on many types of decorating projects on both land and sea, and met tradesmen of the highest calibre. The very best all seem to share many traits, but the most outstanding, I think, is a generosity of spirit and willingness to offer [...]

Blog, Boats, brushes

Whenever you mention brushes to a painter, you get a mix of pride, common sense and bull. PrideI have never met wooden boat painter, Jay Greer, but the Seattle craftsman is my online painting hero. In addition to 50 years’ knowledge and experience of painting and repairing classic wooden boats, he has varnish brushes older [...]