Five Little Things : Boats

I love boats. I don't sail but somehow they still represent for me a certain escapism, a possibility of adventure, a je ne sais quoi...
And because I love boats I photograph them. And it's a collection just like our shell collection, or Noah's strange assortment of rusty metal bits or my china cats, I collect boats with my camera. 

Oban, Scotland 2016

Greece 2004

Jardins de Luxembourg, Maya's birthday 2009

Homemade walnut shell boats

Birttany 2008

All that thinking about boats got me writing a list poem about the words we have for boats. It's a very rough sketch, no idea where I'll go with it but it has lovely sounds. Here it is:

The language of boats

Sail boats and tall boats

canal boats and barges

bowsers, cokkleshells

coracles, crafts

cruisers and cutters

dwows, dredgers, drifters

dugouts and flagships

ferries and freighters

gondolas, hydrofoils

houseboats, icebreakers

kayaks and kanoes

life rafts and liners

paddle boats, pedalos

punts, rafts, sculls

shikaras, showboats

skiffs, smacks, tugs

tenders and tankers

trawlers and tubs

vessels and whalers

watercraft, yachts.