Special Thanks to Nick Turley Photography for the awesome cover photo ...

The Who, What ~ Why ...

We Upcycle, Invent, Build, Restore, Draw, Paint, Tell Stories,
Mess around on Boats
and Play with Very Old Cars ...

Old Rope Salvage is Tim Edmonds and Lisa Wrench. 

We began, as many good things do, without a plan, but with the seeds of an idea which were sown one dark, rainy evening on a boat in Cornwall. We first met a million years ago as art students in Falmouth, but it would take 21 years and an old wooden fishing trawler named Albacore to bring us, and our shared passion for an alternative way of life, back to Cornwall where we finally came together in 2013.
7 years on Albacore ...
Discover how we transformed a decommissioned fishing trawler into the Houseboat 'May Queen' ...
In the beginning, 'Old Rope Salvage' was just a name, a play on words, a description for our way of life on Albacore. It soon became the name of our upcycling business, and later still it evolved to encompass and describe our whole way of life. It has now come to symbolise our passion and our mission to build a sustainable way of life as artists and makers, creating, building and restoring.
Follow our Journal to discover more about our Upcycling projects, our adventures with The Old Rope Truck, our pursuit of Alternative Living and all the latest stuff and nonsense we've been up to ...
Tim is The Inventor. He likes to take things apart and put them back together again in new ways. A painter, signwriter, builder of old cars, restorer of boats. Practical and inventive, his great skill is in finding magic and beauty where there is seemingly none, often at the bottom of a skip where he regularly discovers the objects he upcycles. His greatest passion in life however, is drinking tea.
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Tim built the kitchen on Albacore around the hatch leading down into the old fish hold. It was made entirely from reclaimed materials. You can find out more about the kitchen build in 'Boatlife' ...
Lisa is The Storyteller ... Artist, illustrator, writer, bookmaker, professional daydreamer and occasional mermaid, Lisa also creates our online and offline content, designs the website, and films and edits our videos. She is an excellent First Mate and has recently signed a declaration promising to learn How To Weld. She also makes a lovely cup of tea.
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Lisa never expected to find herself scraping barnacles off the bottom of A Really Big Boat, but here she is doing just that. To find out what else we've been up to, our Old Rope Salvage YouTube Channel is now live ...
As semi-delusional but hopelessly optimistic artists and makers with a dream to create a sustainable way of life as far from the 9-5 as possible, we want to be able to share some of our ideas, creations and adventures with you. Should be interesting ... at least for us ...
Update!
Summer 2020 ...
We sold our beloved Albacore  last summer and after a few months rest and pontification we were ready to begin our next big boatbuilding project in Spring 2020. Unfortunately, there was a small global crisis (!) and we had to put our plans on temporary hold. Not to despair, we are ploughing onwards and looking forward to sharing the new adventure with you soon. Until then, follow us here to find out what we've been up to in the meantime, and how we fare as we attempt to embark on this new and inadvisable folly with nothing but a 78 year old pick-up truck, 2 cats and maybe just enough money for a couple of pints and a pasty ... 

Lisa & Tim - Summer 2020
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Old Rope Salvage Films ...

Visit our You Tube Channel to follow all our adventures ...