Crafts / Craftsmen / craftswomen (craftspeople, I suppose)

Sam - you're a boatbuilder?

Thats fucking amazing.

I'm currently getting cancer working in TV but i've spent the last few months trying to get a carpentry apprenticeship thing going. As i'm freelance i'm totally willing to work a few days a week for free....learn carpentry/joinery in whatever capacity and leave TV for good.

Where do you do this amazing boatbuilding stuff? Do you need free hands to help? I'd love to get some experience in this kinda field.

Basically; in 10 years time i wanna build a big fuck off house-cum-boat and go. just go.

To quote Nike: "Just do it"! Without any qualifications/experience, you may struggle to get paid work, but I'm sure you'd find somewhere to gain some experience, if you don't mind grafting for nothing.
I'm now in Suffolk at the IBTC, and loving it. Highly recommend the course to anyone who is interested in high-end joinery and boatbuilding.

one day I'd love to quit it all and build guitars - I'm doing a phd at the moment and want see how good I am as an academic first.

I'm quite addicted to this fellas blog

http://twitpic.com/photos/crimsonguitars

more on here http://www.crimsonguitars.com/workshop-diary/

amazing stuff, I built a few guitars when I was a teenager and loved it. I've got no time or workshop to do it at the moment, though still play at bodging things on the sitting room.

I have a friend who is a violin maker, and her boyfriend is a luthier (acoustic guitars). Really amazing; the amount of detail in the work they do. So impressive!