{"product_id":"9781907206542","title":"Hillyard : The Man, His Boats, and Their Sailors","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Gray, Nicholas\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 17 June 2021 by Lodestar Books in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 256 pages, 24pp mono \u0026amp; colour plates\u003cbr\u003e165 x 241 x 29 | 666g\u003cp\u003eDavid Hillyard, founder of the famous firm of boatbuilders in Littlehampton, was born in the late nineteenth century, at the height of the Big Boat era. His family were stalwarts of  Rowhedge in Essex, where the aristocratic owners of the enormous cutters dicing in the Solent sent their skippers to pick their racing crews of hard-bitten fishermen. Yachts, in those days, were for the very rich, but the men who sailed them were often the reverse. Perhaps it was a consciousness of this divide that led  Hillyard-a devout Christian, descended from a long line of fishermen-to build boats that were robust, practical, and within the means of those lacking the advantage of dukedoms or armaments factories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis account of David Hillyard's voyage from apprentice boatbuilder to founder of a boatbuilding dynasty will be deeply interesting not only to owners of his boats and enthusiasts of traditional boatbuilding, but to anyone interested in the story of messing about in boats as practised in Britain. It also provides fascinating insights into the development of a small but significant corner of the relationship between the people of these islands and the seas that surround us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gray, Nicholas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50666228613304,"sku":"9781907206542","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781907206542.jpg?v=1734735059","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781907206542","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}