About Graham

Artist craftsman, spending a lifetime as maker of all things wooden. The workshop is a normal garage where works come to life.

Boat building is but one area of his craft that demands a range of particular skills gained initially from model making and restoration work on classic old punts.

This Inuit Kayak Graham made is now sold to a school in Ullapool, Scotland.

This runabout is a small Italian style boat for cruising the estuaries and inshore waters. Built during the Covid lockdown, taking approximately 1,100 hours. Boat builders normally use metal fixings of copper, bronze or stainless steel. Graham chose to make this one using just a few dozen S.S screws in the transom area and on fittings and fixtures that have to be detachable. Others are of Bamboo wood nails only visible along the gunnel and on the seat knees.

Tennis racquet seats are of steam bent Oak and angled knees attached to the bench with nylon ties and strung with Dinema for lightness. The steering wheel is of steam bent oak with spokes of bamboo.