The Len and Ray Show; Scow sailing and a Pirate Ship

Len Parker keeps me updated on his continuing adventures with his mate Ray (see the post about Len and Ray on the Norfolk Broads cruise here ). Ray, who is a genuine boatbuilder in the UK, got a job over the winter to build a landlocked pirate ship for the Blackgang Chine Amusement Park on the Isle of Wight (I think the previous Pirate ship was rotting away). As you can see, he built it using traditional boatbuilding techniques with genuine big bits of timber.

The frames going up..............

Picture taken when the terra firma-bound ship was more or less finished. Not sure what Ray did about rigging those masts.

And as for scow sailing...............

Between the two of them, they have amassed four scow Moths. Len and Ray took the older Imperium design wingless scow on a jaunt on NewTown Creek, Isle of Wight in early April. I'm amazed that those two were sailing in shorts and T-shirt, early April in England.

Ray with a bow on shot......................

Picture of Len taken from the side...................

Len and Ray's previous outing in the Imperium scow was reported on back in 2009.