Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on March 05, 2003 at 16:47:07 from 62.252.32.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: Anchoring posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on March 05, 2003 at 10:49:41:
There are frequently repeated local stories that in Victorian times when coastal sailing ships often sheltered from bad weather in Lowestoft Roads with several anchors out on bad holding ground, the local 'Beach Companies' had a practice of quietly salvaging some of the anchors in question and selling them straight back to the Captain of the ship concerned!
It is clear from the story that Goblin had a 'small windlass' but I just Can't picture what is on Nancy Blackett's foredeck today