Historic coastal sailing sloop named awards runner-up

The Spider T, built at Warrens Shipyard, New Holland, originally plied the East Coast and inland waterways of Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire carrying loads of brick, grain and other cargoes.

Now based at Keadby, she has been lovingly restored by Mal Nicholson, who acquired the vessel in 1994 from the Yorkshire Waterways Museum in Goole.