The Reaper is the biggest sailing lugger ever to fish the seas. Seventy feet long and capable of pulling in ten tonnes of herring in a single haul, the Reaper was an awesome beast that fed Britain at a time when she needed it most.
Sailor and writer Tom Cunliffe sails her for himself and finds out just how this giant of the seas came about.
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