CURRICULUM VITAE

PETER RADCLYFFE

Address: Via Carducci, 150 Portoferraio (LI)- ELBA 57037 Italy

Telephone – e-mail : mob. 0039/3291136515

0039/0565/914195
e-mail: peterrad@alice.it

Date of birth: 23/07/57

S.F.I.A Approved for Workboats, Yachts and Traditional Builds

CAREER HISTORY
2007-8 Eilean , Fife 23m, 59 tons ketch for Panerai, planking , frames.
Oenone 45ft, 15 tons Fred Shepherd, Berthons, deck, counter, frames, planking keel.
Nina V, C&N ,50FT, rudder,caulking.
2006 -2007 , Viareggio (Italy)
• Patience,!931, Fitting out , spars.
2002.2006 – VIAREGGIO
• IDUNA, 30m steel schooner 1939De Fries Lentsch. Supervising & personally fitting &
fastening, masts and spars, fittings and rigging , joinery and deck furniture. re-designing,
modifying and quality controlling 80% of rigging fittings designs..
• LULWORTH,1920, Big Class, 186 tons, 40m, composite gaff cutter, Khaya, not Honduras
mahogany hull, 75% restoration as chief boatbuilder, loftsman, surveyor, foreman yacht joiner,
costing clerk, technical consultant, , rigger, storeman; writing monthly progress reports, articles
and proof reading technical details for Lulworth’s book for Andrew Rogers.
In charge of 100 people: teaching, supervising, quality controlling shipwrights, sparmakers,
caulkers, joiners, carpenters, Italian platers, designers, riggers, sandblasters, engineers,
scaffolders, painters, fairers and hungarian keel drillers
Personally- patterning the whole boat, lofting the hull, making a new lines plan after fairing
the old hull and a new body plan, making offsets tables; supervising hull and deck and entire
construction, lining out hull and deck planking, bulwarks; supervising and patterning hull
and deck steel work and wood work, chain plates, channels, mast step, bobstay fittings,
martingale, engine beds, bulkheads, engine room and tank room, floors and bearers, chain
locker, fife rails, spurling and hawse pipes, gammon iron and bowsprit fittings, heel and
cranse, whisker shrouds, mainsheet buffer, cleats, casting patterns for fairleads, bollards,
stanchions; marking for and supervising drilling and punching 6000 holes in hull and deck.
Estimating in man hours the construction of the entire boat.
Supervising caulking and splining. Personally the construction and alignment of the rudder,
bearings, steering gear, wheel and tiller – 12 men. Personally boring and fastening stern
tube and A- bracket
Designing and making wooden patterns for bronze casting for log and prop shaft A- bracket
and rudder heel bearing. Placing and fastening of dog house, skylights, hatches, mast,
windlasses, batteries, generator, engine. Supervising the position, drilling and fastening of
the 2 piece, 70 ton lead keel. Pre -measuring and ordering all centre line and keel bolts in
bronze.
Setting up the old interior on scaffolding and teaching house joiners and steel workers how
to work as yacht joiners and yacht platers; teaching them, sheer, inclination, camber,
 waterlines, buttock and bow lines, centrelines, compound curves, pattern making rods,
lofting, watertightness and structural design.
Personally restoring most of the saloon furniture , including glass fronted doors and sheer
angled writing desk and positioning all internal furniture and old bulkheads , since all the
old interior arrived in a container I had to put the jigsaw puzzle together.
Also teaching 8 people how to restore the tender Alice and copying all bronze parts for a
replica.
• PATIENCE,45 ton,s Bermudian cutte,r teak, C&N, 1931, 90% restoration. Chief boatbuilder.&
joiner, surveyor, costing whole boat.
Again the same operations as on Lulworth: patterning the whole boat, construction and design
work, supervising 20 people, teaching 5 polish joiners to be shipwrights, only one of whom
spoke English.
Personally making all the centreline structure , boring and fitting rudder and shaft tubes,
designing and fitting engine beds, tanks, installing engine and generator, complete hull deck and
interior, spar fittings, hull and deck fittings, all deck furniture.
Marking waterlines on all three yachts.

1998-2001 Jeanie Johnston –(Ireland) 450 ton Replica Brigantine 30m, 2 decks. Supervising
50 people, foreman shipwright, responsible for cutting and assembling :
• Frames
• Hull planking
• Lining out hull planking, sheer
• Construction of 2decks, beams and deck stanchions, bitts, cavils, bulkheads, hatches
• Construction of stern and beakhead, deadwoods, keelsons, stern post, hawsepipes, chain
lockers, knees, caulking, shelves and stringers, fitting out, deck joinery, bulwarks.

1997-1998 T. Nielsen ( Gloucester)

• Construction of fighting tops for Grand Turk for “Horn blower”, 30m Brigantine
• New deck & cavils for Garlandstone, west country, 20m ketch
• Pilot cutters Mascotte & Dolphin, repairs.
• Deepdrag & tumblehome.
1997: Fitting out 80’ barge Greenhithe,(Kent)

1994.1997 Portoferraio, Elba (Italy) Foreman shipwright and joiner for Circolo Nautico italiano
• 50% restoration of 1929 ,Commuter yacht, Mohican 66FT, consolidated, 20 tons.
• Installed 2 new Fiat 400hp diesels, sterngear and engine beds
• Made patterns for bronze shaft supports, installed generator, compressor, skin fittings,
plumbing and electrics
• New frames, planking, deck, stringers, cockpit, hatches, bulkheads, 2 boarding ladders in
teak, gangplank
• Repaired Roberta, motor yacht 16m Baglietto, shaft re-aligned
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1993 Rennes , France Joiner. Built and fitted out a small house in wood and concrete.

1992-1993T.Voisin, Yacht broker, Cannes. Joinery, doors, gates, veranda, patio.

1990-1991 Southampton Yacht Services

• Building 2 new ,80’ cedar strip composite schooners Craftsmans art and Rocco
• In charge of building the keel, stem, beam shelves
• Fitting out, bulkheads, engine beds, bulwark, cabins
 • Built 2 guitars
• Experience gained with Epoxy resins W:E:S:T: and S.P.

1989.1990 Self employed

• Designed and built26’ hull and deck carvel larch on oak MFV Yacht
• Built a replica of a 14’ Carvel, larch on oak beach Lugger
1986.1989 J. Hinks, Appledore, North Devon
Specialist in Trawlers and Replicas
• Building, two 72’, 150 tons, iroko on oak, carvel, transom sterned trawlers with aluminium
shelterdecks and wheelhouses
• Responsible for planking & caulking one side of boat and cutting out all the frame pieces,
plus making and fitting the beamshelves, stringers ,sternpost & transom.
• Working as a charge hand shipwright, fitting out, laying decks
• Designing and building a 10’ carvel dinghy, built for myself as a lofting
exercise

1986 Toughs Boatbuilders, Teddington, London

• Subcontract work laying new teak decking and some fiiting out on a new steel 120’ Motor
Yacht Brave Goose and 120’ Benedetti, La Venetia
Cruise Master, London
• Subcontract work rebuilding a 70’ oak longship and an iroko on oak 70’ Roman galleon,
replanking , frames and fitting out
1985 Self employed- Twickenham, London
• 90% restoration of the 25’ clinker Richmond Ferry for the Museum of London
• The rebuilding of 50% of a 45’ American Motor Yacht Reclaimer
• Cabins, electrics, plumbing, new deck and wheelhouse
• The job entailed employing 9 people
1982-1984 Self employed - Numerous commissions to include:
• Refitting and rebuilding various craft
• Rebuilding a 65’ MFV _ replanking the heavy top strakes, building dory cradle, refitting,
winch, rails,pumps, generator, plumbing
• Designing and making 60 half models

1979- 1982 John Woolley, Brentford, London/Bristol

APPRENTICESHIP
• Rebuilding various 72’ narrowboats, oak planking steaming, some cabin work, small cruiser
repairs.

FOREMAN
• Rebuilding of the Irene, an 85’ 200 ton ketch, replacing deck beams, new deck, new full
length strakes, hatch, 2 new masts, rigging, recaulking
1980 Square sail Brightlingsea
• Iduna, 30m steel schooner 1939, fitting out
• Soren Larsen 150’ brigantine, deck, bulwark, cabins

1971-1978 Various mechanics, boat repair, house building, gas cutting, salvage, rigging and
crewing, drummer for Spinal Tap.
Deck hand on Sheen , 70’ Thames tug
MFH 60 ft Humber barge 1939
• 1969, steam yacht Amazon 1885 Dixon Kemp, carpenters mate
• Family, Sorceress , gaff cutter,1878, A Payne, 60’
• San Fernando, ex-Millbay 1880, west country trading ketch.
• Helping Hand , 1921, 72’ Rye sailing trawler
• Helmsman 63 ft ASR , 1943