Jon, who has lived in Conwy for the last six months, said it was “tricky” to get all the items – even down to the right cups and cooker.
He managed to get a replica of the 1960s cooker from the famous scene when Roy Scheider said the famous line, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat”.
Jon spent years tracking the items down, many of which either no longer existed or were listed as collectibles, making them “very expensive”.
The hardest and most “important” item to source was the yellow flotation barrels, which are like those used by the characters in the blockbuster to track the shark.
“I’ve been working on it for so long, and no one really knew what I was doing, but as soon as I put the barrels on the front, they thought ‘oh my God, yes, it’s the boat from Jaws ‘”.
Jon also imported Narragansett beer cans that were hand-crushed by Capt Quint (Robert Shaw), the film’s shark-obsessed captain.
He made the shark cage himself and tried to use correct brands where possible.
There will even be a signed copy of Jaws by Peter Benchley on board the boat.
Jon added: “I’ve also got a very nice book signed by the survivors of the USS Indianapolis,” which refers to Quint’s (played by Robert Shaw) famous speech on the Orca.
