Schoonerman

Penguin Books, 1981, covers a bit creased

Crammed with stories of the men, the work, the sea-lore and traditions, Captain Richard England's marvellous autobiography of life aboard a full-rigged schooner, the very last of the schooners sailing between England and Ireland. England was the former master-owner of Nellie Bywater, Britain's last fully-rigged merchant schooner. It will rank as one of the best books written about the sea, a record of a British way of life, unchanged for more than a century, which has now gone for ever...