Marcus lewis: wooden boat builder traditional boat builder in fowey, cornwall i build, restore, repair and maintain wooden boats here in fowey, cornwall. i work mostly with traditional designs: wooden rowing boats, sailing dinghies, keelboats, motor launches, beautiful wooden yachts and dayboats in clinker, carvel or strip planked construction.. Being lucky enough to be born alongside the river fowey in 1962, boats and the river have always featured in my life. repairing and maintaining my own boats from a teenager led me to working for a local boatyard, repairing, building and restoring small wooden and grp craft.. Wooden boat restorations email – marcuslewisboatbuilder@gmail.com one of the first boat restoration jobs to complete here in fowey, cornwall, was the restoration of ‘guide’ a 22 foot motor launch built by dick pearce in looe around 1918..
Kim furniss served a six-year apprenticeship with westerley boats, rock (now cornish crabbers) and has been a self-employed boat builder for the last twenty-five years. he has a considerable reputation for specialising in grp boat repairs, mould work and classic wooden boat restoration.. The building of the boat used traditional skills that were recorded by the tms projects. every stage of the build was captured on video and on a time-lapse camera and the footage will form part of the virtual learning tool for future generations of wooden boat builders.. Boat and ship builders and repairers construct, install and repair wooden structures and fittings, and shape, position, rivet and seal metal plates and girders to form the metal structures and frameworks for marine craft..
