I am sad to say that I have not heard of Mr Gorman. I see that he wrote a number of useful books when I searched for his name.
He was one of the fore runners of POF kits, including the drifter, pilot boat , a lovely 3 island cargo vessel and some others that I can't remember that eventually went to another manufacturer if I remember rightly.
They were always sold as limited edition models and were, for the time very expensive compared with Caldercraft boats of the time.
I have seen some of them at the Norwich model boat club sailings in the distant past and they made lovely models.
He was a man ahead of his time with model kits, and also wrote a couple of good books to help beginners into the hobby.
Jim.
