Tenby luggers

This image of the Tenby lugger Florence, regd M81, includes the cliffs of the coast beyond to eastward. The boat has a crew of four, all gathered at the stern save for one seated on a thwart amidships and facing aft. The mizzen is sprit-rigged, the sprit being to windward of the sail and only its lower end visible in a snotter approx. one-third of the mizzen mast's length down from the masthead. The sail is sheeted to a long bumkin passed through a hole in the transom to the starboard (near) side of the rudder stock. The mizzen mast is stepped forward of the transom in a bracket at the forward edge of the sternsheets and on to port of the centre line. The foresail clew is fastened to the stemhead. The foresail is not hoisted as a balanced lug but in leg-of-mutton fashion, laced to the mast without its gaff, which lies diagonally across the bulkhead at the mast step, its forward end resting on the stemhead.

Object Details

ID: P75486
Type: Negative
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 11 September 1936
Measurements: Overall: 80 mm x 105mm