CLIVE MARSH discovered small boats while working for Canadian Pacific Steamships and is a past Commodore of the Merchant Navy Association Boat Club. In this series he shares tales from his 50 years of boat ownership.
Visit any UK harbour in the summer and the chances are you’ll see a Drascombe Lugger or a Devon Lugger afloat or dried out on the mud.
My first experience of a Drascombe Lugger was at Flushing where I’d hired a holiday flat with my family overlooking the harbour. The flat came with a tender and use of an old Mk2 Drascombe Lugger kept on a swing mooring. It rained all week but we got afloat most days and it didn’t take long
