Particularly suitable for maritime, seaside, and some other themed events. Immaculately costumed above deck, thin legs and large boots below the waterline, these boats have now walked many miles around the country!

Each boat has a large puppet aboard to join in with the fun and arguments. They all love talking to children but are prone to insulting anyone else who gets in the way.

VIKING LONGSHIP

Eric and Hilda Viking are looking for somewhere nice to settle down, or plunder, after a pretty rough voyage and not enough lager breaks. On board, and feeling slightly queazy is their captured Saxon sheep, Dolly (or Nelly Mutton to her friends) who is anxious to go home to a nice grass sandwich.

* Truncated Theatre - Viking Invaders

PIRATE GALLEON

It's 1722, and the crew, Captain Nathan Darke and Liza Rudge have clearly been at sea for too long. They could be shipwrecked at any moment because the lookout, Cora the Crow, is refusing to go back into the crow's nest.

* Truncated Theatre - Pirates Adrift

HMS VICTORY

Here we are in 1805 with a bemused Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson and Able Seaman Lyon out on the high seas searching for Trafalgar. They engage in nautical banter with passers-by to take their minds off the ensuing battle. Meanwhile Lieutenant Pasco, Signals Officer and pigeon, is practising his important signal.

* Truncated Theatre - Battle of Trafalgar

LADY LYDIA

Sir Henry Greatham and Lady Lydia are out for a gentle cruise in their Edwardian steam launch. Unfortunately they have been joined by Kevin, a rather loud-mouthed seagull who is prone to insulting anyone near enough. He definitely lowers the tone of the proceedings.

If there is somewhere safe to dock the steam launch the crew will happily disembark, make themselves a bit more respectable, and give you some musical entertainment.

* Music - Seaside Sunshine

ITALIAN GONDOLA

The Gondolier must have taken the wrong turn at the Bridge of Sighs but who cares? With a phrase book, map and Kevin the Seagull, who has turned up again and is anxious to practise his Italian on the local population, Inner State is adrift on an old canal near you.