About the Author

The ten expert authors brought together for this work include Mike Stammers, Keeper of the Merseyside Maritime Museum, Owain Roberts, an authority on Welsh boat types who has been involved in the building and sailing of replicas and Robert Simper, a founding member of the Old Gaffers Association, under the consultant editorship of Dr Basil Greenhill, once Director of the National Maritime Museum, who has devoted a lifetime to the study of traditional and coastal craft.