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 ...
LATEST NEWS!
January 2021 ...
We have The Workshop.  We have The Overalls.
We have The Fear.
We are now ready to begin the transformation of our
BIG MAN TRUCK into
*THE WORLD'S GREATEST ADVENTUREMOBILE ...
​(*This may be an exaggeration) ...
We bade a sad farewell to our boat after selling her  in 2019 and after a long, protracted period of hand-wringing, head-scratching, indecision, false-starts and procrastination - (let's not even mention the small matter of a global pandemic!) -  we are finally beginning our next new adventure. 
It took several months of searching, but in November 2020 we found an awesome new location for Old Rope Salvage where we have set up a workshop, dusted off the tools and are now getting busy making, upcycling, inventing and creating again. More importantly, this is now the location where our BIG NEW PROJECT is getting underway: This time, A Tiny (Big!) Home-on-Wheels which we are creating from the remains of a 1975 Bedford Firetruck. Yes, we're at it again ... We just can't seem to stop ourselves from taking on ridiculous projects!
We still have The Ford Truck, and maybe just enough money left over to keep us in pasties and tea whilst we set about re-inventing our future ... 
We are so excited to be embarking on this new adventure. Join us here, follow us on Instagram and Facebook, and don't forget to subscribe to our channel on YouTube where we are documenting this build from the beginning to, er ... the end? ...
Should be pretty epic!
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Lisa & Tim - January 2021

Introducing
​Old Rope Salvage Films ...

Visit our You Tube Channel to follow all our adventures ...
Brand New Video Series beginning right now! Catch us here from DAY 1 as we embark on this new chapter and most exciting of all our exciting adventures ... Building an Adventure Wagon from the remains of a 1975 Bedford MK Firetruck! Subscribe on YouTube so you don't miss any updates and come along for the ride .... We're going to need all the support (and tea!) we can get! ...
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