Rigged model of an Aldeburgh Sprat-Boat by J. Raban Williams. The model represents the 'Ossie' built by Critten at Southwold in 1893. These boats are known as 'beach punts'. Scale 1:12

The small open boats used from Aldeburgh beach were of the transom-sterned type common to the beach boats of a great part of the English coast, and quite unlike the double-ended Sheringham crabbers and the larger double-ended beach-yawls of a little further north.

Usually about 15ft long, the sprat-boat was clincher-built, with considerable beam and a wide vertical transom. Amidships, partitions on the floorboards formed compartments into which the catch could be sorted.

The rig was that of a two-masted lugger, with a dipping lug forward and a standing lug aft. The sheet of the mizen-sail was led through a block at the end of a long wooden boom at the stern; while forward the tack of the mainsail was hooked into a short iron bumkin which projected horizontally from the stern.