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The Essex sailing smack Maria, built in 1866 and owned for 35 years by her current owner Paul, re-enacts stowboating — an anchor-based sprat-fishing method that died out on the East Coast in the early 1900s when steam and diesel trawlers replaced sail.0:27 Stowboating requires anchoring in a minimum of 30 feet of water, then deploying two long timber balks forward of the bow between the anchor chain and the stem, connected by a wink chain to a bulk davit.4:59 The net — 150 feet long and 23 feet wide on Maria's scaled-down rig, versus a commercial 300-foot net capable of holding 15 tons — hangs fully open beneath the hull on the tide.12:31 Wind and tide must run together; a quartering wind causes the smack to sail up over the gear.11:25 The critical hazard is "windmilling": if the wink chain goes slack and the balks dive under tide pressure, they twist, then breach the surface with enough force to hole the hull.12:55 Paul learned the technique from two Brightlingsea old-timers, Dick Harmon and Mac McGregor, who had fished with Dennis Levitt of Tollesbury.13:58 Maria sails engineless, catching sprats, herring, bass, skate, smoothhound, and prawns in the rivers rather than offshore.17:03 Keeping the balks under constant tension throughout the tide cycle is the single non-negotiable rule of safe stowboating.15:11

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