Bawley
A Bawley is a small type of British fishing sailboat .
history
The boat type spread on the southern English coast from Leith Hill via other ports in the Thames estuary to Harwich . It was mainly used in the 19th century, but it was also used in the 20th century, in the end, however, often exclusively with motorization instead of sails. The remaining examples are now used as leisure and traditional ships.
Construction
The about twelve meters long and about four and a half wide wooden decked sailors with cutter sails are tapered at the front with powerful bowsprits , the tapered aft section closes them off with a broad transom and the tiller. The ships were initially built in heavy clinker construction, later they were converted to crawler planking . Most of the deck is closed, only small hatches give access to the shallow lower space. While the Bawleys initially had a sea water bar , a hatch filled with water that kept the catch alive and thus fresh, later buildings were given an oven for cooking the caught North Sea shrimp . The single mast is arranged a little further forward than midships, the sails consist of a high gaff sail without a lower boom, a gaff top sail and one or two foresails .
literature
- Bathe, BW: Ship Models, 3: British Small Craft . Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London 1965.