three sheets in the wind

Three Sheets in the Wind brings together a glorious collection of Thelwell’s sailing cartoons.

Arriving on a summer weekend at any stretch of water without one’s own craft behind the car or swaying proudly at its moorings is like attending a dance with a broken leg - not to mention the damage to one’s social status. This is a humorous manual of instruction for sailors anywhere.

Norman Thelwell contributed more than 1,600 cartoons to Punch magazine and worked as political cartoonist for the News Chronicle, then at the Sunday Express and Tatler. He was particularly well-known for his cartoons on horse riding, fishing, sailing, motoring and English country life and was one of the founder members of the British Cartoonists’ Association.