Nick Ardley: 3 books
Mudlarking
Thames Estuary Cruising Yarns
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In this charming sequel to the successful local best-seller Salt Marsh & Mud, the skipper and his mate meander gently around the coastline of East Anglia, exploring the marshland from North Kent to Suffolk in their tan-sailed, wooden clinker sloop, Whimbrel. Whether sitting with a cup of tea while...
by Nick Ardley
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Sailing, boat owning and living on a Thames spritsail barge have coursed through the veins of the skipper's family since the early 1930s, and it instilled in him a profound love for salt, marsh and mud. In The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler we find the skipper looking at how it used to...
Salt Marsh & Mud
A Year's Sailing on the Thames Estuary
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Salt Marsh and Mud - Tales through a sailing year, is a compilation of interlinked stories about cruising around the Lower Thames, Swale and River Medway. The area has been very much overlooked, in the yachting literary world - often derided even - yet it is a fantastic local cruising area, full of...