Schooners & Open Boats of the European Pilots & Watermen

The second volume of a truly remarkable proposed 3-volume reference work describing the world’s pilot vessels during the age of sail and oar, and the men who crewed them, in huge detail – massively researched and sumptuously illustrated. Unfortunately, the first volume is out of print and the third never saw the light of day as the publisher folded. This volume describes the pilot schooners and the open boats of the European pilots .

Contents

• Pilot schooners from Europe: German North Sea coast, the Netherlands, Belgium, Dunkerque, Portugal
• British small craft such as the Deal Luggers, East Anglian yawls, the Humber dusters, the northeast pilot cobles, the Scottish vessels, Mersey gigs and the Irish small craft
• Hooghly brigs of Calcutta

Lavishly illustrated with fine paintings, photographs and line drawings. Large format. 347 pages

‘If you were on a desert island, this book would keep you enjoyably occupied until the longed–for pilot cutter came along and rescued you!’