BUILDER OF BOATS | TELLER OF STORIES | 
​KEEPER OF MEMORIES

 All boats have a story to tell audio portraits on SoundCloud.

In 2009, Gail was awarded a scholarship by Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) to build the lerret daughterboat Littlesea. The National Historic Ships on the National Replica List awarded her official replica status.

Gail has been interviewed by BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour and her work has been featured in the BBC 2 Heritage Heroes series and BBC 4 Beach Live. You can hear Gail's Woman's Hour​ interview here.

The Disappearing Lines webinar was delivered by Gail for Greenwich Maritime Museum.
Photographers
Becky Collis - www.rebeccacollisphotography.com
Martin Haswell - www.martinhaswell.net
Nick Matthews - www.nickmatthewsphotography.co.uk
Simon Tutty - www.simontutty.co.uk

Publications
A Celebration of British Craftsmanship by Karen Bennett, Julian Calder
Conserving Historic Vessels by National Historic Ships
Country Living magazine, July 2017
BBC Countryfile Magazine, June 2022
Great Faces of Dorset by Millie Pilkington, Elizabeth Pope
The Guardian 8th Oct 2022, Catherine Lerner: 'We are outsiders': the female boatbuilders of Instagram
The Journal of Modern Craft
Landscape magazine
Seining Along Chesil: Voices from a Dorset fishing community by Sarah Acton
Water Craft magazine


Main image by Martin Haswell