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Working with Judi Tompkins on this Guild website I was aware she had been asked by a relative to hook a rug depicting the ship on which he sometimes sails.
This is one of only two tall-ships purpose built to take both disabled and able bodied men and women to sea.
Both ships are part of the Jubilee Sailing Trust, an international, United Nations accredited disability charity, promoting integration through the challenge and adventure of tall ship sailing here is a link to the organization with video of ships at sea http://jst.org.uk/about-
SV Tenacious, is now on loan to Australia for the next few years and is currently docked in Melbourne. This link will provide details of the upcoming voyages while she is in the Southern hemisphere http://jst.org.uk/2016/07/
Judi’s brother-in-law Tom, has made many voyages on both Tall-Ships, and provided these details
“Though the two ships are similarly equipped with regards to having a partially handicapped crew, with medical facilities and always a qualified medical purser (who is a nurse usually but sometimes a doctor) and on longer voyages a volunteer doctor on board, they are very different in feel. Lord Nelson just celebrated her 30th birthday whereas Tenacious was built (mostly by volunteers) in 2000. She is the largest wooden ship (Siberian larch) built in the 20th century.” http://jst.org.uk/australia/about-us/
Tom said he’ll be on board the Lord Nelson for 42 days in June/July 2017 when the ship sails from London, to the Faroe Islands, then on to Iceland and finally Quebec. The ship will take part in a lot of the celebrations associated with the 150 years of Canadian Confederation with short sails around the east coast of Canada. At the end of 2017 he’ll head for Melbourne to join Tenacious for a 20 day voyage to Auckland.
Having met Tom and been taken on a tour of the Lord Nelson when she was in Fremantle in 2013 and hearing about his adventures at sea, it sounds like a voyage, if only for a day, that should be on everyone’s bucket list.
Judi said she had no idea what this project was going to involve, she’d done some 3D rug work and realized that along the way the project gets to a point where it looks like such a mess – you think it’s never going to work out. In this case, there was just so much detail in the sails she didn’t think it would ever come together, but persevered.
Through the process from design to finish Judi documented her work and now has hundreds of images – here are just a few –
and the finished project hanging in brother-in-law Tom’s home in Belgium.
Well done Judi,
Jo Franco, Editor
