Selsey beach boats

A clinker-built Selsey fishing boat, the Cuendolen, regd LI98, is viewed from the starboard bow quarter, heeled to starboard while aground on shingle on Selsey beach. On the shingle in the foreground is a crab pot with stone weights in place.Two long sweeps rest on the boat's thwarts; only the amidships thwart and sternsheets are visible, but the thole pins of the forward rowing position are in place. The boat's short bowsprit is rigged with a light rope bobstay outboard, and a rope assembly at its inboard end; one end of the cross-member to which this rope assembly would be fastened when under sail is seen resting on the starboard gunwale. An apparently youthful figure is standing in the stern of a similar boat aground on the shore beyond and to the right of the main subject, LI98.