Mark Edwards (boatbuilder)

Mark Edwards (boatbuilder)

Mark Edwards is a traditional boatbuilder based at Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey, England. He has constructed several significant reproductions of vintage boats.

Edwards has built and maintained a variety of watercraft over the years including Thames skiffs, punts, shallops, cutters, and wherries. However he is noted for three particular builds.

  • In 2002 he built an eight-oared shallop, the Jubilant, to celebrate the Queen’s Golden jubilee.
  • In 2002 he built a wooden submarine based on the original 17th century version by Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel. This was shown in the BBC TV programme Building the Impossible in November 2002. It was successfully tested under water with two rowers at Dorney Lake. Legal considerations prevented its use on the River Thames itself.
  • In 2004 he built two replicas of the original boats used in the 1829 Boat Race. These were raced by former members of Oxford and Cambridge crews over the original course at Henley and prior to the 2004 Boat race from Putney.

References

  • British Rowing Almanack 2004

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