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Considered to be the saltiest shore in England, the Blackwater provides the background for John Leather's story of Essex seafaring. It is an accurate study of men and craft that have sailed form the small communities beside this broad estuary and river. wildfowlers and often smugglers join the sailing smacks and bages, brigs, bumkins and gunpunts in this workaday watery world. crews when summer cruising and racing, even to crossing the Atlantic in quest of the elusive America's Cup. skills and craft. Their traditions, independent outlook and everyday enjoyments have lingered to the present in...

This is a practical guide covering clinker and cold-moulded construction methods for boats up to 20 feet in length.

Since this book was first published, interest and enthusiam for traditional craft and their rigs have developed beyond expectations. This is a study of the rig, and the many drawings, plans and photos represent a unique historic collection.