Key details
- Current boat name
- Jack
- Boat class
- 7262
- Sail number
- CK 91
- Function
- Sports and Leisure
- Type
- Open boat
Dimensions and specifications
- Propulsion
- Sail
Design and build
- Designer
- John Kidby
- Design date
- 1920
- Date of build
- 1920
- Place of build
- Brightlingsea
Current status
- Present use
- Leasure, occasional oyster dredging
History
Open, clinker boat with a centreboard, 15ft to 18ft long, rigged as a gaff sloop and used as a general runabout. These boats, which were originally old ships' boats with a gaff rig added by the Essex fisherman, were called winkle brigs at West Mersea and Bumkins on the Colne. In about 1912 Charles Kidby built a new type of boat to work in the creeks and on the flats to replace the 20ft 'haul and towing' boat at West Mersea. The new winkle brig was clinker built, but sometimes had grown frames so that they could carry the weight of the oysters and winkles in bags. (Inshore Craft: Traditional Working Vessels of the British Isles by Basil Greenhill) (Photographs by Chrissie Westgate Photography)