Jill started sailing at the age of three weeks and spent her formative years messing about in racing dinghies in Chichester Harbour. She made her first blue-water passage at the age of 18 but it was to be a further ten years before she was shanghaied by the skipper and started her career as an ocean-going hobo.
Jill has written a handful of books and has many more in the pipeline, but her true vocation is as an artist.
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Jill’s latest book, How NOT to Build a Boat,
tells the story of the Mollymawk, and of how she was built, and where, and why.
It is a DIY instruction manual, a travelogue, and – at times – a comic tragedy, all rolled into one.
Like the boat itself, this book has been a long time in the making.
At last, the truth about steel boat building
— Nick Skeates, designer of the Wylo II
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Love your blog. Very professional and aesthetically pleasing. Comprehensive too, and a side of the islands I didn’t get to see as a tourist. Cheers!