Robert Simper

Aft cabin and lamp; Picture by Matt Care

Cambria’s Shop Manager, Cathy Chapman has emailed me to tell me that the price on the Calendar is now fixed at £7.50 plus UK postage of £1.10. Cambria will be open this weekend and there will be a supply of calendars on board so please do drop by and secure yours. If you need yours posting please email markandcathy@mail.com

Please do buy these – remember that we are a charity and strongly dependent upon income from shop sales to keep us going and support our work. The shop also has a range of publications including the recently published Robert Simper book, “The Cambria Story” as well as videos such as “Red Sails” and mugs, pens, key-rings and other gift items. For more detail go to our home page, hover your cursor over “shop” and then click on “Cards, Books and Videos”. Fill those Christmas Stockings and support Cambria at the same time.

Galway hooker stern, Kinvarra Harbour 2012, Picture by Matt Care

By an amazing coincidence, my latest Galway Hooker witterings struck a chord with the fact that I was re-reading Robert Simper’s excellent book, The Cambria Story (Robert Simper, ISBN 978-0-9563299-2-9, pub Creekside Publishing, 2012; available through our shop pages). In the section on the end of trading days (page 29) Robert says that “She had no rivals for her place in history since it was several years since the last Ipswich barge had carried a cargo under sail; only a few hookers on the west coast of Ireland were carrying turf”. So there you go Cambria – you might be last ‘sailorman’ in UK, but maybe not in Western Europe as a whole.

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Robert Simper on Hookers.