Sunday seaworthy 100116

We had two [choppy] trips across the Irish Sea since New Year. I've come across a couple of nautical links over the same time-period.

• From Timber to Tide a man builds and sails his own boat.
• Enduring mal de mer: a sweet story about a young fisherman losing his lunch but not the respect of his family and friends.
• Cool water.  An elderly Thames barge-skipper, looking uncannily like actor Michael Caine, sings a shanty
• Sarf Australia.  Shanties?  You can't do shanties without tribbing Bert Lloyd
• Waulking the wool.  Women sing work-songs too!