PS Waverley
Doug, talking of Locking, there were a couple of great characters from Locking sailing at the Weston Bay Yacht Club in the late forties. Both had open boats rigged with sprit mainsails, a la Thames Barge, plus various other bits of canvas. I remember sailing in my dinghy in company with them one summer morning morning bound for Barry. Dead flat calm clear of the bay. One of the RAF Locking lads, produces a set of bagpipes, stands in his boat playing them as his way of whistling for the wind. It sounded great and I've always thought it was a wonderful setting for the skirl of the pipes. And it worked!
Nerys
Nerys
When the winds before the rain, soon you may make sail again, but when the rain's before the wind, tops'l sheets and halyards mind