Tenby luggers

The view of the Tenby lugger Florence, regd M81, shows the boat under sail in a light wind outside Tenby harbour, viewed amidships from the harbour quay, and closer to the quay than in negative P75486. The boat is carrying three female passengers and one gentleman wearing a badged blazer and smoking a cigar, while the single-handed owner and/or helmsman stands looking forward, rowing with a single sweep on the near (starboard) side of the boat, as the Florence is apparently 'in irons' with sails flapping and what wind there is, dead ahead. 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, and in this picture the rear end of the bumkin is angled downwards and trailing in the water. The mizzen mast is stepped forward of the transom in a bracket at the forward edge of the sternsheets and 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.