Work has proceeded during lockdown on building Avocet, one of the St Ayles Skiffs designed for coastal racing under oar-power. This lovely boat has been built under the supervision of Alan Thorne in the Trust’s Purifier Building and many members
At the end of 2019 Alan Thorne proposed that we become involved with a rather more ambitious programme to build a St Ayles Skiff, a twenty two foot coastal rowing skiff, as a community boat building project in the Purifier.
For three years, 2017 – 2019, we ran our BoatCamp programme in which, under the instruction of one of our Purifier licensees, Alan Thorne, two teams of four young students from the Abbey School each spent their summer activity week
