Tony Dixon on Boatbuilding

Lisa: So, looking back on your career, what would you say was the most enjoyable time? Or the most interesting thing you worked on?

Well, I really think the apprenticeship was, ‘cos it was all new, creative.

It’s ‘cos we…Uffa designed quite a few boats for Fairey Marine at Southampton and the Firefly was one of the boats and the International 14 footers they built, one called the Swordfish and then the Atalanta which was a little cruising boat and I helped draw up all of those.

It was good fun, yeah. And David Helmer was a very good teacher.