Artists who contributed works to the riverside event -- which formed part of the week-long London Boat Show -- include the fashion duo Mark Eley and Wakako Kishimoto, portrait artist Christian Furr, as well as musician and actor, Goldie.
Starting from Nong Khiaw in the early morning, our guide Dhit sat quietly as we drifted around 10km downstream along the calm Nam Ou River in a narrow long-tail boat.
After visiting a tribal village in the morning, you'll be whisked away on a private long-tail boat to Tham Pha Thai National Park and then taken by private bus to Chiang Rai to see the Golden Triangle.
The pastime of punting - propelling a long, flat-bottomed boat along the river - is popular in both cities.
This isolated city is reached by either a quick plane ride from Lima or, for the cheap-and-adventurous route, a days-long journey by boat.
Rob Mackenzie, managing director of MIE, said it had cancelled the show to "protect the integrity of what we know to be the enormous long-term potential for a major boat show in Liverpool".
As I climb off the boat, a pair of long-tailed macaques, whom I assume are on the payroll, rove the cliff face, sampling white flowers.
There are also two Boston Whalers, a 23-foot Jet Boat, a Nautilus Rib Catamaran, and a 37-foot-long Midnight Express at the ready for snorkeling, diving excursions, and drop-offs on one of the islands in Copperfield Bay for those longing for a blue lagoon experience.
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Henry had hoped for solitude today-an occasion to explore the uncertainties he has had little time to consider while helping his father make pencils in the long sheds behind their home-but he needed a boat for the excursion, and he prefers not to row alone, lest the loneliness remind him that his brother John will never again take a turn at the oars.
Next to a long wooden dock with chairs at its end sits a fast-looking boat with twin outboards.
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Residents are being invited to comment on a project to open up a mile-long section of canal on the Surrey and Sussex border for boat trips.
Garry Walton was on his first foreign holiday without his parents when he chose to go on a boat trip on the last day of the week-long break.
Sun-bleached boat sheds are built into the honeycomb rock, with long slats sloping down to the water so the fishermen can easily push their way out for the early morning catch.
The 8-hour bus drive and transfer between Istanbul and the boat was too long and tiring.
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William Russell thought his dream of a hybrid boat-plane was finally taking off as he saw his Flarecraft rise above Long Island Sound one recent morning.
There was no road to Olymbos - the rest of the island remained a long, steep hike down to the shore and a boat ride away.
The Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering project, or SPICE, is a British academic consortium that seeks to mimic the actions of volcanoes like Pinatubo by pumping particles of sulfur dioxide, or similar reflective chemicals, into the stratosphere through a twelve-mile-long pipe held aloft by a balloon at one end and tethered, at the other, to a boat anchored at sea.
Another agency puts semi-celebrities on a boat in the south of France and then photographs from a distant camera with a long lens to give the picture the right feel.
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