Paint your (floating) wagon with Phil Speight

Graham of NB Jannock says he's just attended one of Phil Speight's masterclass weekends on boat painting. 

Excerpt:

Over the course of two days, Phil took us through all of the steps needed to turn a bare sheet of steel into a decorated and signwritten boat panel. 

... My interest in being there was to try and learn better ways of keeping Jannock's paintwork looking good whereas a lot of my fellow students were really into the idea of giving their boats complete DIY paint jobs.

... All in all a great weekend during which I have gathered lots of interesting tips to achieve my goal of preserving the paint finish on my boat.

Neil of NB Herbie attended one of these courses in August last year.  He wrote up the experience in his post How to paint your boat, complete with photographs. 

The impression I'm left with, from both Graham and Neil, is that Phil Speight makes it look far easier than it is!

But it also sounds irresistible.  They way they both describe it, I'd imagine that you could sell tickets to rich retired Texan men for tens of thousands of pounds to come over and try their hand at painting canal boats and for their eager wives to do the 'roses & castles' courses.

Yet, I can't find out how to book online.  Phil Speight's website is here, but where do you sign up for his weekend roses & castles painting courses?   Or the full-blown 5-day in-depth boat painting courses?

UPDATE:  Wait, here it is!  It's not on his own website, but on the Craftsmaster Paints site.  And I got it the wrong way round - the 'Paint Your Boat' course is over the two-day weekend, whereas it'll take you the full five days to master 'Roses & Castles' to Phil's own standard.  Hopefully.

Comments

[Andrew Denny]

Testing, testing, is this displaying?

[paul and glennis]

Hi Andrew, I attended a fender making course over the weekend held at Audlem mill and run by Brian McGuigan and his charming wife Ann marie who run a coal/diesel busines up and down the Macclesfield canal on thier
working boat Alton. It was a first class course which I would reccommend to anyone wanting to add to thier skills and you get to make your very own button fender (including the coir)alongside others things to take home with you , you also get fed and watered whilst you are there. information about all the boat related courses can be found at www.audlemmill.co.uk
Regards Paul and Glennis NB Just the Job

[Halfie]

Aha! I discover that an earlier title for this post was "Graham learns how to look after Jannock's paint".

[Andrew Denny]

Paul, many thanks.  Link duly corrected.  

[Paul (from Waterway Routes)]

Your Craftmaster Paint link has 2 many http:// in it

[Kath Corbett]

I agree! Phil does seem to have made it seem easier than I expect it to be. In fact I'm getting quite scared about painting Herbie, Neil thinks it will be a breeze after we've prepared it. I think it's going to be 2 weeks of hard work, frustration and expence! I just hope it's worth it!
Kath nb Herbie