No gardens in this one but a lot of
recycled wood! Mr Ideasman, as you may know, is happy to be working
with, viewing, touching, planing, varnishing or even just sanding
wood, so the boat sat on the dock in Weymouth drew him like a magnet
to its shiny surface. Forget Olympic sailing for a moment or two, let
him find out about this boat.
He spoke to Don Manson, one of the
builders of the boat. He, like Mr Ideasman, was running his hands
over the bow, touching the outlines of numerous objects used for
their wood.
‘They’re not just random pieces,’
he said, ‘ for instance this hairbrush here was donated by someone
who used it to brush the hair of stars at Elstree Studios.’
Every piece has a story. Don showed Ms
Tagalong his donation, a clothes peg, its outline clear amongst the
hockey sticks and tennis rackets. Even the sawdust was saved and
made into bookmarks. Ms Tagalong’s bookmark states that it is made
of the Victory, a shelfing
unit from Ikea, boxwood planted in 1166, the floor of a Royal palace
amongst a wonderful collection of 1,221 pieces indeed.
This unique idea dreamt up by two
artists over ten years ago received Arts Council funding and it was
even part of the UK’s bid for the Olympics, so where better for it
to be displayed than at the Olympic sailing venue.
The boat which took over 18 months to
be built by four professional boat builders and teams of volunteers
actually sails, although Don hastened to add that it was not a racer!
So with that Mr Ideasman pushed Ms
Tagalong along the quay to see some real racing!
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