Boat
Yard
I worked as the maritime researcher for Century Aspect Films who produced the series 'Boat Yard', filmed in the summer of 2005 and shown weekly on Discovery Home & Leisure in November/December 2005.
My brief was to locate five boat restoration projects to feature. The ten part series followed these projects and aimed to capture the imagination of the nation by combining the hunt for a rusty old shell of a boat with the journey of how it was lovingly restored to its former splendour; ready to set sail by the end of each episode.
The producers wanted contributors for the series who already owned an old boat they were planning to restore, or people who had aspirations to buy an old boat that needed doing up. The final projects had the tough deadline of completing the work within 4 months.
The series covered boats of all sizes and type, from any era, and made from any material, needing work of various levels to get them on the water again. The programme became a joint project with my father, Tom Cunliffe, who was the presenter.
Each project was allotted two 30 minute episodes of film time and the resulting programme was entertaining viewing.
