Bawley

Short description: Type of English sailboat

A bawley was an English sailing vessel typified by a boomless cutter rig and probably named for having a boiler for cooking shrimp in amidships. "The majority were built by Aldous of Brightlingsea",^[1] but they were also built in Harwich, Erith, Southend, Leigh, and on the Medway.

A bawley Bona (LO178) built by Aldous of Brightlingsea in 1903
Watercolour of a bawley running up the coast by Henry Scott Tuke, 1858–1929
The bawley Doris (LO284) built by John Cann of Harwich in 1909
Doris again at Leigh-on-Sea

References

↑ Leather, John, The Gaff Rig Handbook, 2002, Adlard Coles Nautical, London, pages 62-65

External links

Bona — 36 ft bawley Bona (LO178), built 1903 by Aldous in Brightlingsea, Essex
Saxonia — a Brightlingsea Bawley built in 1930
Emma — pre-1850 Essex Bawley

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[1] Leather, John, The Gaff Rig Handbook, 2002, Adlard Coles Nautical, London, pages 62-65