The Boat That Guy Built

Motorcycle racer Guy Martin renovates a neglected narrowboat using inventions of the Industrial Revolution, beginning with building a blast furnace

Guy Martin tries to get the shower on his narrowboat working by making a steam engine, and visits the factory of 19th-century lavatory manufacturer Thomas Crapper

Motorcycle racer Guy Martin renovates a neglected narrowboat using inventions of the Industrial Revolution, beginning with building a blast furnace

Guy Martin tries to get the shower on his narrowboat working by making a steam engine, and visits the factory of 19th-century lavatory manufacturer Thomas Crapper

Guy Martin visits a 19th-century cotton mill to weave his own bedsheets, and makes a mattress at the same factory that supplies the Queen

Guy Martin makes a tin can using a 200-year-old technique, bakes his own bread and learns about Sheffield-steel cutlery

Guy Martin visits a 19th-century cotton mill to weave his own bedsheets, and makes a mattress at the same factory that supplies the Queen

Guy Martin makes a tin can using a 200-year-old technique, bakes his own bread and learns about Sheffield-steel cutlery

Guy Martin visits a 19th-century cotton mill to weave his own bedsheets, and makes a mattress at the same factory that supplies the Queen

Guy Martin makes a tin can using a 200-year-old technique, bakes his own bread and learns about Sheffield-steel cutlery

Guy Martin visits a 19th-century cotton mill to weave his own bedsheets, and makes a mattress at the same factory that supplies the Queen

Guy Martin makes a tin can using a 200-year-old technique, bakes his own bread and learns about Sheffield-steel cutlery

Guy Martin gives the boat a makeover, applying wallpaper, trying traditional decorative treatments for the interior, painting, and learning how to weave silk in a Macclesfield mill

Guy Martin gives the boat a makeover, applying wallpaper, trying traditional decorative treatments for the interior, painting, and learning how to weave silk in a Macclesfield mill

To celebrate the end of the project, Guy Martin shows off the renovated boat at a party, and shoots a Victorian-style portrait with a 150-year-old camera

To celebrate the end of the project, Guy Martin shows off the renovated boat at a party, and shoots a Victorian-style portrait with a 150-year-old camera