Building small watercraft of all designs and styles to owner's request - specialising in Platt Monfort's Geodesic Airolite designs and finished to a high standard, with a degree of flair - anything considered......a traditional Canadian canvas over timber slat perhaps??.......a lapstrake ply dinghy??.........a Percy Blandford design in Dacron weighing half as much as it looks??

Current "in-build" - Some articles for display at the forthcoming Tasmanian Craft Fair in Deloraine - A Lampshade!! - A Plinth, lit from within?? - A standard lamp in Willow........................

...and still thinking of that Canadian Canoe.........

Completed projects in 2009

Smile3 - Platt Monfort Geodesic Airolite "Nimrod12" in Huon Pine - Ireland

Smile4 - Platt Monfort Geodesic Airolite "Snowshoe12" in Huon Pine - Launceston

Smile5 - Platt Monfort Geodesic Airolite "Classic14" in Huon Pine, King Billy Pine and Myrtle - Ireland

Smile6 - Platt Monfort Geodesic Airolite "Snowshoe14" in Huon Pine - Cairns

Smile7 - Aleutian Ikyax or Baidarka in Huon Pine - Victoria

Smile8 - Percy Blandford PBK10 skinned in Dacron - Hobart

Also two Percy Blandford kayaks, a PBK27 and a PBK20 refurbished. 

Completed projects in 2010

Smile9 - Cape Falcon Kayak F1, class conducted by Brian Schulz

Smile10 - Geodesic Airolite Snowshoe12 - for display

Smile11 - Percy Blandford kayak, PBK57 in Geodesic Airolite style

Smile12 - cheating a bit - a Michael Storer Quick Canoe 155, built with my mate Cliff Rogers in Far North Qld, 'cause he wanted one (also won "Best Boat" at the Great Tinaroo Raid 2010

Smile13 - Winner of the Great Tinaroo Raid 2010 inaugural "Speed Tank Event" - a real speedster made of X-ray film sheets, polystyrene and tape - my lightest yet at almost nothing, half a kg, maybe........

Smile14 - another of Brian Schulz's F1s, this one for Peter Burgess to partner his Baidarka, Raido-Beta

This site is currently being frantically worked upon so don't expect to see the same thing in the same place twice for a while.

Any comments or suggestions are welcome. All enquiries to:

Peter Ingram-Jones, 0488420002, or email me at

info@canoesandlampshades.com