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....Featuring: Lore of Weather & Tide'

I saw a copy of this in a local charity bookshop and thought to treat myself..... until I saw the price! They wanted £40....!

Sheesh! That's almost a whole night in an MDL Marina!

I guess I'll need to learn about makeshift rope stoppers and eye-splices in wire rope somewhere else..... ;)
 
zoidberg said:
....Featuring: Lore of Weather & Tide'

I saw a copy of this in a local charity bookshop and thought to treat myself..... until I saw the price! They wanted £40....!

Sheesh! That's almost a whole night in an MDL Marina!

I guess I'll need to learn about makeshift rope stoppers and eye-splices in wire rope somewhere else..... ;)
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Is it the David Nichols one? Should be quite cheap on Amazon. edit £12
Or Luke Powell's memoirs, that will be good..I haven't read it, but..
he gave a talk for the OGA West Country chapter, at the Cornish Yacht Club (the one by the Greenbank Hotel). The room was jam packed with grizzled old gaffers, luggers and smack-heads, mostly quite noisy and 'merry', some of the older guests were engaged in throwing bread rolls at each other, others singing shanties..and the room went silent a few seconds after he started speaking, and stayed that way for 1.5 hours..Luke has some great stories and tells them very well, I have no doubt his book will be worth buying..
 
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Minn said:
Yes, but given the choice between Tom Cunliffe and Michael Emmett some of us will choose Michael. He has actually worked a boat under sail.
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Thanks, further googling reveals that Emmett is well qualified to write such a book and now I want a copy..400pp hardback, 10p per page..
 
Minn said:
Yes, but given the choice between Tom Cunliffe and Michael Emmett some of us will choose Michael. He has actually worked a boat under sail.
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Ochone, ochone!

I shan't disagree. No-siree!

It's just that my pocket money this month doesn't stretch.....
 
Michael Emmett has an Oyster smack, the Black Rose, based at Maldon, and apparently he does charters, so anyone can go out with him and learn something from the horse's mouth :encouragement:

Michael Frost's books have plenty of hardcore boat handling info for the gaffers amongst us, and his old smack Boadicea (1808!) is still raced regularly by son Ruben, the Mersea Island fireman.
There is plenty happenning out here, less visible on the publicity radar than TC, Classic Sailing etc.

Boadicea, the Story of a Smack, by Michael Frost, is a great read, educational, and a lot less than £40!
 
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