Ship-in-a-Bottle: Portrait of Reg 'Jock' Jobling by Victoria Kitanov Image: Reg 'Jock' Jobling with one of his fully-rigged sailing ships-in-a-bottle mounted on Tasmanian driftwood, Australian Wooden Boat Festival, Hobart, Tasmania.
Reg 'Jock' Jobling with one of his fully-rigged sailing ships-in-a-bottle mounted on Tasmanian driftwood, Australian Wooden Boat Festival, Hobart, Tasmania.
  • Victoria Kitanov
  • Ship-in-a-Bottle: Portrait of Reg 'Jock' Jobling, 2019
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I met Scottish-born Reg ‘Jock’ Jobling at the 2019 My State Bank Australian Wooden Boat Festival in Hobart, Tasmania.

A master of the art of the ship-in-a-bottle, Jock’s unique craft began as a slow rehabilitation following an horrendous motorcycle accident and is all the more amazing considering the damage to his arms and hands.

Historic 19th century vessels sail in specially selected bottles which are then mounted on beautiful Tasmanian driftwood.

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