151. 289CK. Glass plate.
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Image ID BOXB3_168_001_001

152. Maldon scene. Smacks MN23 LIZZIE ANNIE, CK482 KINGFISHER, MN12 POLLY, MN4 SKYLARK.
A glass plate by Douglas Went photograph.
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: c1957
Image ID BOXB3_168_001_003

153. Discharging sprats from smacks in Brightlingsea Creek. Smack GUIDE of Shoreham.
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Image ID BOXB3_168_001_007

154. William Wyatt, the West Mersea boatbuilder, stands against the legged up West Mersea smack UNITY 197CK. The UNITY was perhaps the fastest of the West Mersea ...
Image ID BOXB3_171_001_001

155. The West Mersea smack HYACINTH CK256 before the start of the 1948 West Mersea Town Regatta smack race. She was the last Mersea smack to remain without an engine ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: 1948
Image ID BOXB3_178_001_001

156. Maldon Hythe on a summer afternoon about 1957. The smacks include MN21 MAUD and MN23. The barge NELLIE PARKER is on the blocks in the distance. Smoke from ...
Date: c1957
Image ID BOXB3_180_001_001

157. Tollesbury smacks
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Image ID BOXB3_194_001_001

158. Old ways change slowly at Maldon. This photogrqaph of a Maldon smack sailing home after a morning's work was taken under the boom of the author's cutter 1949. ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Image ID BOXB3_196_001_001

159. Smack FLY on Wyatt's Slip, West Mersea
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Image ID BOXB3_213_001_001

160. The smack BOADICEA surges down the Blackwater before a freshening sout-westerly wind under mainsail and jib. Her owner, Michael Frost, is at the tiller and ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Image ID BOXB3_230_001_001

161. Smacks racing at West Mersea. CK383 MEHALAH. A halftone cutting from a publication. Published in The Yachtsman and Motor Boating 13 Aug 1932 which says it is ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: August 1932
Image ID BOXB3_231_001_001

162. Swale bawleys at anchor. FM113
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Image ID BOXB3_239_001_001

163. WILLIAM & EMILY of Colchester, Tollesbury 1964
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: 1964
Image ID BOXB3_245_001_001

164. Tollesbury smacks on the hard circa 1938. CK431 A.D.C., CK212 WILLIAM & EMILY
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: c1938
Image ID BOXB3_247_001_001

165. Tollesbury smack BERTHA on Wyatts slip 1962. Built by Aldous at Brightlingsea in 1888, sailed by the Redgewell family continued fishing for over 60 yrs. In ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: 1962
Image ID BOXB3_249_001_001

166. Tollesbury smack BERTHA on Wyatts slip 1962. Built by Aldous at Brightlingsea in 1888, sailed by the Redgewell family continued fishing for over 60 yrs. In ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: 1962
Image ID BOXB3_249_001_002

167. Tollesbury smack BERTHA on Wyatts slip 1962. Built by Aldous at Brightlingsea in 1888, sailed by the Redgewell family continued fishing for over 60 yrs. In ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: 1962
Image ID BOXB3_249_001_003

168. Bawleys racing at a Leigh regatta in the 1920s. Central bawley is LO195. A magazine cutting - title is Typical smacks before conversion. Photo from Sport and ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: c1925
Image ID BOXB3_257_001_001

169. Bawleys in Leigh Creek. A negative - not very good quality. From a photograph by Malcolm Arbuthnot
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Image ID BOXB3_258_001_001

170. Captain James Carter's Rowhedge smack WONDER CK40 before the start of a smack race in the Colne about 1908. The WONDER was built at Wivenhoe in 1876. [More ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Image ID BOXB3_291_001_001

171. The smack ELLEN, owned and sailed by Captain Richard Cranfield of Rowhedge, racing in the village regatta. The ELLEN was designed and built by Harris at ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Image ID BOXB3_301_001_001

172. Leigh bawleys at anchor in the Ray in the 1920s
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: c1925
Image ID BOXB3_308_001_001

173. Tollesbury Hard. In distance are CK143 and CK21. Foreground are CK431 CK212.
Photo is inside a Royal Harwich Yacht Club Christmas Card.
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Image ID BOXB3_318_001_001

174. Smack at Maldon. MN32 BUTTERCUP.
Barry Pearce lists her as MN32 Buttercup (AMV), 5.77tons owned A.H.Wright junr. 5.77 tons.
John White from ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Image ID BOXB3_329_001_001

175. MARY of Colchester at Mersea. This is 'big' MARY CK78 with the lute stern. BOXB3_089_001_001 is a print of this.
From: Smack negatives
Image ID BOXB3_333_001_027

176. MN17 FLY, probably in the 1950s.

It is thought that FLY was not built locally and she is perhaps converted from a pilot cutter from the Bristol Channel ...
From: Smack negatives
Image ID BOXB3_333_001_043

177. The beautiful Wivenhoe Front from a famous 75 year old smack. [DW]
Wivenhoe at mid-day, 1935. The Wivenhoe-owned, Brightlingsea-built bawley PRIMA DONNA ...
Date: 1935
Image ID BOXB5_015_023

178. Working smack leading converted smack at West Mersea Regatta about 1937. [DW]
A Mersea smack and a gaff cutter yacht, possibly converted from a smack, ...
Date: c1937
Image ID BOXB5_015_025

179. West Mersea fishing smacks coming into port on a squally day. [DW]
The GEORGE & ALICE 76CK leads five other West Mersea and Tollesbury dredging smacks down ...
Date: 1930s
Image ID BOXB5_015_031

180. Smacks at Maldon 1952. [DW]
Maldon waterside in 1952. A sailing barge lies at the town quay and the ketch yacht TOPSY just stern of her, close by the ...
Date: 1952
Image ID BOXB5_015_039