Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler

Sailing, boat owning and living on a Thames spritsail barge have coursed through the veins of the skipper''s family since the early 1930s, and it instilled in him a profound love for salt, marsh and mud. In The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler we find the skipper looking at how it used to be in the early days of Corinthian sailing. Nick Ardley takes us on another series of journeys in hi...