Hillyard
The Man, His Boats, and Their Sailors
$48.88
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
17 June 2021
Summary
David Hillyard, founder of the famous firm of boatbuilders in Littlehampton, was born in the late nineteenth century, at the height of the Big Boat era. His family were stalwarts of Rowhedge in Essex, where the aristocratic owners of the enormous cutters dicing in the Solent sent their skippers to pick their racing crews of hard-bitten fishermen. Yachts, in those days, were for the very rich, but the men who sailed them were often the reverse. Perhaps it was a consciousness of this divide tha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781907206542 |
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| ISBN-10: | 190720654X |
| Author: | Nicholas Gray, Sam Llewellyn |
| Publisher: | Lodestar Books |
| Imprint: | Lodestar Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 17 June 2021 |
| Weight: | 450g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 156mm x 234mm |
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Nicholas Gray
Nicholas Gray has had a lifelong passion for boats and sailing. He has taken part in the Two Handed Round Britain and Ireland Race and the Azores and Back Race; he has sailed widely round the coasts of Western Europe and the Mediterranean; has taken part in the UK Three Peaks Race, and has crewed in many RORC ocean races. He is a solicitor who also worked in merchant banking and in the oil and gas industry. He has had an interest in a sailmaking company and once owned a boatyard which specialised in the restoration of classic wooden boats. When not sailing, Nicholas divides his time between his homes in Sandwich in Kent and in south-west France. Now retired, he is a member of the Association of Yachting Historians and has written two books of nautical history – Last Voyages and Astronauts of Cape Horn.
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