From the Loft Floor to the Sea

‘From the Loft Floor to the Sea’ is photographer and designer Christian Topf’s exhaustive visual and verbal journal of the building of the 68ft Pilot Cutter ‘Pellow’ by Luke Powell and his team in Cornwall. She is the longest traditional wooden sailing boat to be built in the UK for decades – and at 360 large-format colour pages, this is probably the largest book to record the process. Chris visited the yard at Truro almost every week throughout the three-year build to bring us this production, in which you can almost smell the sawdust, the hot pitch and the linseed oil.