Peter was asked to produce four sea-going currachs for a new feature film 'Snow White and the Huntsman', which is due for release in 2012.
Read more here.
Peter was approached by James May's team to help build a coracle in under 4 hours and use it to transfer a lady across the River Tamar, on the Devon/Cornish border, England. See how they got on online: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vsw36
Here are the preparations, and James getting ready to make the crossing....
Peter joined the Britannia re–enactment group at this amazing event on the last weekend in May, at Gloucester Docks. Beautiful weather and a bumper crowd ensured a really fun weekend with lots of interesting exhibitors and re–enactors.
Here are a few pictures of the event, with Peter paddling a coracle in the dock, and ‘Britannia’ paddling off in a currach commissioned from Peter in 2007.
..filming for the programme Engineering Connections. Read more on the media page.
Not all steps of the build have been shown! This just gives an idea of the process. To find out about how you could build your own Boyne style coracle, with Peter’s expert tuition, go to his courses page.
...for First Foot Films. In 2004 Peter worked off a few sketches to build a replica of a Beothuk canoe for the film The New World – a drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century. Seen here the framework before it was covered:
..“Coracle Man”!
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