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“Whe’re Yer For”
The Recollections of Capt. Harold Smy, Sailing Bargemaster Author Anthony Osler NEW Smy tells it as he lived it; the hard work, the humour, the resilience of the sailormen, as both the crews and their craft were known in the coasting trade. Expertly compiled and edited by Anthony Osler, this book is£8.95 Add to basket -
Binder – The Society for Sailing Barge Research
Topsail Binders accommodate five or six issues, retained in a strong hard cover in brown cloth, with text and labelling facility on spine NEW£5.00 Add to basket -
Binder – The Society for Sailing Barge Research Plain Cover
Topsail Binders accommodate five or six issues, retained in a strong hard cover in brown cloth, with text and labelling facility on spine NEW£5.00 Add to basket -
Binder for Mainsheet – The Society for Sailing Barge Research
Mainsheet Binders accommodate twelve issues, retained in a strong hard cover in yellow cloth NEW£6.00 Add to basket -
Cards & Envelopes
12 High quality cards and envelopes, blank for your message or greeting 3 each of 4 designs From paintings by David Hurrell NEW£8.00 Add to basket -
Coasting Bargemaster
Author Bob Roberts NEW First published in 1949, shortly after the conflict covered in part of this book, Coasting Bargemaster has been ‘in print’ for many of the years since, such is the quality of both the story and the writing. Though fast dwindling, the sailing barges still had their fair£7.50 Add to basket -
Felton’s Sandwich Sailing Barges
Author Margaret Simmons Sandwich Local History Society NEW Over 100 years ago a local family business was established which constructed the last cargo carrying sailing vessels to be built in Sandwich, an enterprise in shipbuilding that was to last just eleven years. Amongst the yard’s output was a sailing barge that was£4.00 Add to basket -
Goldsmith of Grays
Author Graham Dent Tells the history of Goldsmith's NEW After nearly a decade in preparation by author Graham Dent and colleagues from The Society for Sailing Barge Research, comes this much-anticipated history. Founded in the mid-1800s, by the early 1900s the Grays, Essex, firm of E.J. & W. Goldsmith Limited operated by£35.00 Add to basket -
Greeting Card /Notelets
5 cards of 2 designs with envelopes Blank inside for your own message NEW£5.00 Add to basket -
James Lawrence Sailmakers
Author James Lawrence Chaffcutter Books in association with The Society for Sailing Barge Research NEW Buoyed by the success of London Light, his first foray into authorship, Jim’s follow-up in the somewhat saturated genre of sailing barge literature, saw his pen steered to recording his experiences in sail-making for barges and other£19.50 Add to basket -
Just Off The Swale
The story of the barge building village of Conyer Author Don Sattin NEW The author brings alive this now sleepy part of what was the industrial and maritime might of the north Kent coastline in Victorian times. He was Foreman Shipwright at White’s shipyard in Conyer, a locality about which his knowledge£14.50 Add to basket -
Last of the Sailorman
Author Bob Roberts NEW The last of all to carry a commercial cargo under sail alone was Bob Roberts, his command the coasting barge Cambria. He writes in the introduction ‘Much of this book has been written in a barge’s cabin, rolling at anchor in Yarmouth Roads, stormbound under the lee£7.50 Add to basket