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Gig Build People
| Gail McGarva, a British Sign Language Interpreter before she came on the long course, was awarded a full City & Guilds bursary and named 2005 British Marine Federation Trainee of the Year. She built an 18' Shetland double-ended boat, then worked in Ireland on an Atlantic Challenge 38' gig build. Gail has now joined us as an Assistant Instructor and is building a 1915 Frederick Goeller 12' traditional clinker sailing boat. She is Project Leader on the gig build. |
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Steve Keats studied at the Boat Building Academy from 1999 to 2000. Since then, among other boats, he has built a Cornish pilot gig for Swanage gig club and now runs his own business 'Keats Craft', which as well as boat building offers 'designs in wood'. |
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| Polly Simmonds was a student on the September 2006 course at the Boat Building Academy. Originally from the Scillies, she built a 13' clinker Beer beach boat while on the course and launched it at the Beale Park Thames Boat Show. She has worked on the gig as a volunteer since August. |
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Richard Capstick qualified as a Pharmacist in 1968, worked in medical research for four years, then worked in the NHS. He received his PhD in 1977. Richard saw the Boat Building Academy on visits to Lyme from his home in Taunton and, always having liked making things, fulfilled an ambition by becoming a student in 2002. On the course he built a 16' Giles Jolly boat. He is now semi-retired and is a part-time voluntary worker on the gig. |
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