Author Archives: Shipwright at Morwenstow

I will be 67 in September and have set myself the goal of relaunching Rose of Devon on my 70th Birthday. This seems to allow a great deal of time but there is much to do and it is driven by funding. However if money was unlimited I am not sure whether much time wouldContinue reading “Summer 2025”

The 30’ long Iroka planks have been transported from storage in St Mawes to the Rose of Devon in Gweek and this month L’David, Simon and James start the hull planking. Rosey has been a consummate but rewarding project to have her stripped right down and now we are doing the rebuild – see RoseContinue reading “Winter 2024”

Piety is being worked on at the moment as I fitted a new water pump to the Stuart Turner and put the garden hose into the bilge to run the engine and test the pump…all good except in the morning I found I’d forgotten to turn the hose off and the boat was full toContinue reading “Spring 2024”

It’s been a great summer! I have been to the high Arctic with Ocean Warrior and there are some new photos of the trip in “Black and White”.. I am beginning to learn how this camera works and have had a great deal of encouragement to stop faffing and take photographs! So once you canContinue reading “Summer 2023”