David Hillyard built affordable wooden yachts for the masses, from 1906 to the 1960s—about 800 of them, many of which survive. The company he founded survived for more than a century. This is the story of a unique and significant chapter in the story of British sailing.
This is West Country boatbuilder Luke Powell's account of his life building and sailing traditional wooden boats, and includes the entire fleet of his Scillonian pilot cutters built prior to 2012, when this book first appeared.
The end of the Second World War released a pent-up desire among many to once more ply the seas independently under sail, still long... Læs mere