St. Mawes Passenger Ferry
This ferry has been commissioned by The St Mawes Ferry Company and it will be in service for summer 2008. As it is first wooden ferry to be built for ages, it has attracted great interest and the build has been serialized in a diary:
- Diary 11 - Plans for the officially naming the new St Mawes Ferry
- Diary 10 - The sea trials
- Diary 09 - The launch
- Diary 08 - The fitting out and finishing
- Diary 07 - The systems
- Diary 06 - The wheelhouse and superstructure
- Diary 05 - Laying the deck
- Diary 04 - Planking the ferry
- Diary 03 - Laying the keel
- Diary 02 - Lofting out
- Diary 01 - The design
The ferry galley will be soon updated.
Click on an image below to see examples of the build in progress.
Computer model of the new St.Mawes Passenger Ferry.
Team that built the new St Mawes Ferry
Moved from the shed for the final time.
Dave Cockwell moves the ferry on to the slip for the launching.
The new St Mawes ferry on the slip at Cockwells.
Bow of the new St Mawes Ferry.
St Mawes Ferry being launched for the first time.
Wheelhouse of the new St Mawes ferry.
The new St Mawes ferry with her sister ship ' Queen of Falmouth'.