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

Heritage Craft Association's inaugural conference at the V&A

The Story Boat - Vera
The Story Boat has shared her stories with schools, libraries and galleries, art centres and museums.
Lyme Regis Museum
Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis
Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, East Devon
Messums Wiltshire gallery and arts centre
Eype Centre for the Arts, Eype, nr Bridport

Vera's Daughter - Littlesea
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.

Organisations
​Boatbuilding Academy, Lyme Regis
Bridport Museum
Gig Rower
Heritage Crafts Association
Lyme Regis Gig Club
Mike Rowland & Son
West Bay Discovery Centre
Wooden Boatbuilders' Trade Association

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
Great Faces of Dorset by Millie Pilkington, Elizabeth Pope
intheboatshed.net - Gavin Atkin's weblog for the sort of people who like looking​ inside boatsheds
The Journal of Modern Craft
Landscape magazine
Water Craft magazine


Main image by Martin Haswell