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.
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