Ups and Downs of a Lockkeeper

Jake Kavanagh was born into a boating family and for many years lived by the Thames at Marlow. After a variety of jobs, the River eventually drew him back; Jake joined the Thames Water Authority as a lockkeeper, working the locks around Windsor for many years. Jake, well known as a boating cartoonist and freelance boating writer, is also the author of Worse Things Happen at Sea, also published by Adlard Coles Nautical.

'One thing you never get in a Kavanagh cartoon is a blank face. His variety of facial expressions, ranging from panic-stricken wives to grinning spectators, from horrified lockkeepers to determined skippers, are a treat.' Nautical Magazine (January 2010) 'Open it at any page and you are guaranteed a chuckle; it is a fun book from beginning to end' Sailing Magazine (February 2010) 'An ideal bunk-side book, or for home by a roaring fire in winter.' The Little Ship Club (Summer 2010) 'The Ups and Downs od a Lock Keeper is now in its seventh reprint and takes a lighthearted look at the work of a lock keeper, whether on a pretty canal or by a huge automated seel gates.' Thames Guardian Magazine (Winter 2010)