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Sussex-based wooden boat workshop nestled in the South Downs. Specialising in skiffs, gigs, canoes and punts. Our facilities enable us to undertake extensive restoration work under cover and the construction of new craft. We build coastal and river craft to the lines of historic or regional pleasure and working craft. We can also provide winter storage for craft up to about two and a half tonne. We provide a full shipwright service for all wooden boats, including general maintenance, structural repair, interior joinery and spar-making for wooden vessels up to 50 foot in length. We also run a

Israel Newton & Sons Ltd was founded in 1803 and 211 years later continues to produce high quality repairs and new builds using totally traditional techniques for plate forming and hot riveting, as well as coded welding of all material types. We have the capacity to carry out hydraulic and pneumatic hot riveting in our workshops or on site anywhere in the world as our equipment is fully portable. Our 2.5 acres site has overhead lifting capacity of 25 tonnes, has on site grit blasting and painting.

Established in 1946 as a inland boatbuilder and riverboat chandlery on the River Great Ouse in St.Ives Cambs. Many of the boats built by LH Jones can still be seen on the Great Ouse and Norfolk Broads today. The boatyard now specialises in repair work and inland boat supplies for refits and boat building.

Anchor Marine Surveys offer a range of marine surveys for yachts and motor boats. We are based at a marina location on the UK South Coast and we travel throughout the UK and Europe to conduct marine surveys. We typically survey boats from 7m to 25m in both the leisure and commercial sector for corporate or private clients. Our marine surveys are specifically tailored to the purpose for which a survey is required. For example: Pre-purchase surveys, Insurance surveys and accident damage survey. MCA Commercial Coding also under taken.

Elliott & Company was founded by Peter Elliott in 1991 to offer a bespoke civil and structural engineering service to Architects and Clients working on the conservation and alterations of older buildings and the design of modern highly detailed structures. Consulting Engineers specialising in historic structures. Consultants

We are a specialist restoration company who have railway locomotives, traction engines, farm machinery, victorian manor-farmhouses and much more under our belt. As part of our team we have an experienced historic boat specialist, and we are developing our own small marine steam plants and launch designs. We will take on anything that will fit in our workshops, from a vintage Stuart Turner single cylinder internal combustion engine through to 400nhp triple expansion engines. We have facilities to replicate, repair and build new, as well as sheet roling, rivetting, welding and general

Specialists in Modern & Traditional Rigging • Rig Surveys & Maintenance Programmes • Bespoke Deadeyes, Blocks, Solid Bronze Thimbles & Leatherwork • Suppliers of All Wire, Rope & Fittings. • Wire Splices, Talurits & Roller Swaging. Based in Bristol’s Underfall Yard, Traditional Rigging is built on a lifetime of experience ranging from small sailing boats to the worlds most treasured Tall Ships. Get in touch to discuss your boatbuilding needs from specific parts to full rig design and installation.

Charter of the British West Indies Schooner, The Friendship Rose, built by hand in Friendship Bay. Restoration of the historic West Indies Schooner Friendship Rose.