New pictures of an old piece. One of my sculptures from my final year at college.

Manitou and Kelpie

 Manitou had 20 blocks to be leathered

Pimp my helm

 There were four winch handles to make pockets for. This is double sided and will sit over a beam like a saddlebag.

Then there are two single pockets that will be attatched to the masts.

 Kelpie's boom crutch put me to the test but was very satisfying to finish.

The blocks for topmast runner jiggers certainly look better leathered but also protect the varnished cover board.

Things of Beauty!

                           More Leather and Copper Work

On Merrymaid we had some upholsterers leather left, so we covered the brass handrail which was proving difficuilt to keep the finger marks off.

The blocks on Merrymaid's pin rail were given leather upstanders so as not to flop around.

One of the winch handles lives on the aft side of the mast.

The blocks at the mast base have upstanders with allowance for the stoppers.

Another winch handle is fixed in the cockpit.

Lulworth's fire axe get's it's own little jacket.

Copper cowls on Lulworth's mast

These cap rail protectors i stitched together for Lulworth and below, fun was had making rope handles to assist crew out of their bunks.

                

My jewellery

 This was a necklace l made for a friends wedding, in silver with amber coloured beads.

 These rings l made for our engagement and included materials from our time together. The piece of lignum wood in the centre was from the boat we met on. A piece no longer in use of course!

For his birthday l added a set of matching cuff-links.

A slection of my scrimshaw and bone carvings from over the years.

 

Sea creatures certainly had an influence on my work and also the symbology of the whales tail being good luck for seafarers.

 This was the 2nd of 3 fids i have made and by now I was highly influenced  by Fifes dragons and the technique of scrimshaw.

 Above is Moonbeam IV's Dragon and below is the unofficial dragon i designed for Mariquita who was commisioned without a dragon.

 I carve pendants, Hair pins, bracelets and inlay with shell and wood or silver.

Some of my previous works.

 A removeable thump mat on Mariquita's aft deck protects the varnished king plank and keeps the winch handle on board whilst racing.

 Two of Mariette's anchor davitt blocks. Matching sets on port and starboard.

 Mariquita's Top mast runners often need to be unhooked and and taken forward and both parts made off.

                 Merrymaid's dinghy chocks.

  A double winch handle pocket on Merrymaid for easy access. Other pockets were also mounted on other parts of the boat.

 When the crew on mariquita pulled out the bowsprit during a refit it was a good opportunity to replace the worn leather.

          
The widow makers need to be treated with respect as they could give you a nasty bump.
They are one of my favourite items to leather.




 One of Mariette's Treble blocks.

On Mariquita's 100m main sheet there are plaited stoppers on both sides ready to take the weight to allow the crew to sit in line to haul in the main.