Wonderful watercolour of a barge in full wind!
A few lines Colin wrote about these ships:
These old girls could carry about 80 tons of grain,bricks,sand etc..
They had a flat bottom & therefore shallow draft for getting up the creeks of East Anglia.
For getting under the London bridges the mast,rigging & sails could be tilted back almost to the horizontal.
There was only the Skipper & Mate for crew,maybe a boy & a dog as well.
A few lines Colin wrote about these ships:
These old girls could carry about 80 tons of grain,bricks,sand etc..
They had a flat bottom & therefore shallow draft for getting up the creeks of East Anglia.
For getting under the London bridges the mast,rigging & sails could be tilted back almost to the horizontal.
There was only the Skipper & Mate for crew,maybe a boy & a dog as well.
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