Happy New Year

Welcome to the 2012th year of exciting adventures, fanciful painting, drawing, making and all manner of seaside shenanigans to keep you and me amused... see you soon.(I still have absolutely no idea exactly how old Mariner's Way actually is, and nor have the inhabitants.)

Drascombe Lugger

This is not just a drascombe lugger,  it's also a family portrait.

And Another One.

It all began around Christmas time when everything was frozen solid.  Now it is nearly Easter and I am STILL battling with insulation and pieces of timber in the Shed.  You will have to bear with me, dear readers, and make do with old boat pictures while I build my house.

I am thinking you might be wanting house pictures, not boat pictures?  In fear of disappointing you I will see if I can rustle something up.

Scrutinizing the lovely Boadi in the post below,  the peak halyard looks a bit wonky and wrong. Why oh why did I do it like that?  I don't know what I was thinking?

This watercolour is of Our Boys,  a mighty Rowhedge smack.  She's enormous (whereas Boadi is sweet and small) and her gaff is held up by magic...  I haven't given her any rigging at all.