ince our last visit here four years ago, Luke and Joanna Powell’s Rhoda Mary Shipyard in Truro (which operates under the umbrella of Working Sail) has continued to be extremely busy. The yard was established just over a decade ago with a view to restoring the 1868 Cornish trading schooner which has been lying derelict for almost a century on the River Medway, and named accordingly. Although that project came to nothing, the yard then undertook a new-build of equivalent magnitude: , the ninth and very much the largest of the pilot cutters to – managing the yard, not just when Luke is away in the summers but also when he is back in the winters.
