Nautallica and me…

I think I must be a frustrated sailor/handyman/creative. It’s perhaps the easiest way to explain how Nautallica came to be.

I’ve always loved the water. I started sailing in my first dinghy as a youngster about 50 years ago and have been around the ocean and boats most of my life. Big boats, little boats, fast boats and slow, old graceful boats. If I’m in the surf or on the water I’m in my happy place.

My Dad was always tinkering with things and had a love of timber, so he was always showing me how to build things with wood. Practical things like a dinghy cradle through to impractical things like a really cool billy cart so I could race down a hill and break my arm!

After 35+ years as a Graphic Designer in the corporate design and advertising game, I started to want for a different direction for my creative ideas. Naturally, I was drawn to my happy place.

I noticed that there was a market for customised nautical things, and signs made from the nautical alphabet could provide a bit of fun to the terrific community of boaties out there.

So I got to work with my old drop saw and some paint and started to make some fun signs for friends. The ideas grew, and now, in addition to Flag Frames© the ideas have flowed on to Aye-Charts©, Aye-Glasses©, some fun tee-shirt designs with Nautees© and my new range of Latitude 26 coastal art.

Thus the Nautallica brand was born.

It’s like the heavy metal of fun boat stuff…

– Peter