77 - Hong Kong - Jessica Lee

Dear Joanne, I’m 12 years old, and my name is Jessica Lee. I live in Hong Kong . I am half Scottish and half Chinese. Most of my boats are inspired by Hong Kong Harbour. I was going to take some photos but I’m waiting for a sunny day. (My flat looks over the Hong Kong Harbour). Here’s some photos. To be honest, I’m not the crafty person, I usually sketch and paint. Here’s more photos. Any way, hope you like the photos.
From Jessica Lee.

76 - USA - Donna Eyring

This “Cayman Boat” is made from a colour copy of fabric purchased on Grand Cayman and lined with a sheet of my handmade palm fiber paper. The sail is made from Cayman silver thatch palm plaited about 35 years ago by my dear friend MS. Valentine Wood. My husband and I lived and worked on Grand Cayman in the mid-1970’s. At that time Cayman was home to some of the most sought after merchant seamen in the world. This boat is made in celebration of the Caymanian people and their graciousness and generosity to us while we lived their.

This “Sail Ho Boat” is made from an Arizona map backed with a piece of my handmade yucca fibre paper. The sail is a piece of cactus skeleton. When my husband and I were dating nearly forty years ago he would take me to a night spot to hear a local singer, Dolan Ellis perform. (He since has been dubbed Arizona’s Official Balladeer.) Dolan sang a song titled “Sail Ho” about three gold miners being lost in the desert around the Superstition Mountains. They saw sailing ships coming to rescue them. The masts of the ships in the mirage were probably cactus. This boat celebrates our 39 years of romance.

75 - UK - Shetland - Brae Primary School P3 & P4

These boats were made by Primary 3 & 4 Brae Primary School , Shetland.
Freya, Connor, Carly, Aidan, Ethan, Lewis, Matthew, Bethany, Scott, Chiara, Francesca, Luc, Finnley, Summer, Lilly, Chance

Each boat sailed to Caithness on it's own sea........I photographed them on Dunnet Beach.

74 - UK Shetland - Kit Mowat

Dear Joanne, My name is Kit Mowat and these boats have sailed from Ollaberry in the Shetland Isles to Caithness. They are mainly made using photos printed on plain paper. With a few additions.

These images were taken in the Baltic 2 months ago. The image seemed timeless. It could have been taken any time in the last 100 years in any northern country.

The image of the killer whales was taken in Yell Sound, Shetland. We spent about 1 ½ hours with a pod of 7 whales. The houseboat is printed using various seashore images and finished with peerie animals.

Several years ago we painted our boat in rainbow colours. This is The Welcome and my husband fishing mackerel.

‘Tammie Norries’

Ships in bottles! Kit labelled each boat with it's own ship-in-a-bottle, on the back is the info!

73 - Holland - Adrienne Van Hovell

Envelope decorated!

Log book completed!

June 4 2009. Dear Joanne, How are you? Here is my second contribution for the cottage born out of crochet-mood! Plus a recycling spirit! Warm greetings .Adrienne.

This boat has been crocheted with plastic bags in the Netherlands by Adrienne Van Hovell Lynden.

72 - Singapore - Michele Elliot

These boats sailed from sunny Singapore and were made by Michele Elliot.

The small brown and white boats area made from wax tjap’ed paper using traditional Javanese tjaps.

The yellow and bold boat is made from paper used for offerings in Buddhist temples.

The blue and white paper boat is made from some lovely wrapping paper depicting astrological charts.

The final one (blue thread) is hand stitched on hand made paper from kalimpong in West Bengal. I visited a beautiful small paper production centre there and was given a tour on the workshop. They mostly use daphne plants.

Michele is an artist from Australia, currently living in Singapore.

For more info you can visit her website: http://web.me.com/micheleelliot/

71 - Singapore - Alison Wilson

These boats sailed from sunny Singapore and were made by Alison Wilson.
Alison’s boats were made with handmade banana fibre paper bought in Yogjakarta, Indonesia. The small boat has a Bondhi leaf as a sail. There is a stamp (or tjap) of an Indonesian wayang kulit (puppet) character on the sail of the larger boat. The larger boat is waxed.

Alison is a member of www.iapma.info

and her blog is: www.creatingpaper.blogspot.com

70 - France - Jan Fairbairn-Edwards

Boats still in France........but looks like they are about to set sail - high waves and a rough sea.

Arrived safely - I photographed them in dry dock in my kitchen!

Joanne, Good luck with the project. These Fairbairn boats were made by three generations of the Fairbairn family, Andy Fairbairn aged 44 Emma Fairbairn aged 5 and Jan fairbairn aged 64, in memory of their Great Great grand father who was captain of a packet steamer that sailed regularly from Newcastle in the early nineteenth century. Jan Fairbairn-Edwards

See more of Jans work here:

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/janfairbairn-edwards/

Jan is a member of
www.iapma.info

69 - UK - S1 pupils at Thurso High School Caithness

Alexandria Downing - fishing

Alexandria Downing - American/Japanese boat

Heather Woods - woollen canoe
Heather Woods - sailboat

Ryan Houston-Green - canoe

Sasha Curlis - Titanic
Grace Mackay - Castlehill Trail

Class S1 at Thurso High School in Caithness have been following the paper boat blog with their teacher, Pat Owen. So I was delighted when they invited me to the school to meet the class and collect their boats.

It's quite a few years since I was a pupil at Thurso High School!!