Filmmaker Shauna Osborne-Dowel lived on Rosemarie herself as a small child in the 1970s, and this relationship, coupled with the unique creative people who also lived on the boat before and after, were part of the inspiration to make this film.
Shauna set about finding and interviewing all the former houseboat occupants, most of whom were musicians or creative people who had studied art or sculpture at Falmouth University while living on board the boat, while others were boat-builders.