Possible Clues:

• They're responsible for the sketches of new pantries
• They work to hold the boats on the surface
• David and Claude in France, for example
• Pertains to artists
• Artists in loco parentis
• Artists securing boats
• They put their coats on to tie the boats up
• Is parent (anag.)
• Ropes for decorators
• They have to work to get a coat on