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GEORGE GREAVES lives in a house overlooking the beach, in the old port of Hastings on England's south coast. Here, for a thousand years, boats have been hauled up onto the shingle bank between fishing trips.

The activities of the fishermen, and the colours and lines of their craft have provided attractive subjects for his camera - especially the traditional wooden boats, which are becoming rare as everyday working vessels. The local shoreline and the flishing fleet are now his favourite images.

He has built up a comprehensive archive of photographs, pure record and pictorial, examples of which have been seen in the Yellow House Gallery and sold in the USA and the UK, as well as appearing maritime magazines in both countries.

Price for a typical gallery-print (18"x12" approximately, mounted on a 20"x16" ready-to-frame mount would be $55. This would apply to the prints seen to the left.

1 Whelk-pots (used to catch the type of sea snail much favoured by Londoners) ready for use by the small 2 foot Hastings "punt" in background. These boats, once sail powered, are now motorised, but in hull form they are exactly as their sailing predecessors.

2 Part of the Hastings fishing fleet awaiting the tide at dawn.

3 September 1999. Dave Peters attends to his nets alongside the boat he skippers RX58 "Our Pam and Peter". (Built 1980, 8.9 meters, wooden, clinker, traditional Hastings pattern boat.

4 Until 1990 Hastings boats were launched by the fishermen by a combination of synchronised shoving accompanied often by concerted cursing! Small tractors have now made this chore a little easier, and safer.

5 Hastings fishing boats drawn up on the shingle beach. These are traditional wooden clinker-built boats directly descended in construction and size from the old Hastings sailing luggers.