Cheers Chaps,
He does like his boat.Unfortunately it's shot me in the foot as now the youngest wants the 'Sirius ' for his Captain Haddock.
It's my own fault I'd made my older kids pirate ships when they were small.(Properly wounded at the time took them down to Nottingham at the time for a shoot and was handed a new copy of WI with Gary Chalks plans in ,two months after I'd made them so they couldn't be used as we'd both come up with similar solutions.)
The bottom picture (in the first set) is the boat in 'storage',
Here's a couple of pictures to show how it breaks down,including how the paddle housings attached,and the gun is just an old paint brush handle its a pretty bog standard build for me (use this method alot).
Everything is designed to hold a figure including the lifeboat and the paddle housings.
Mark.