During their university holidays in the late 1880s, S.K. Baker & three of his University College friends clad in stripy blazers & boaters spent time sailing & camping on the River Wye. Baker, a keen artist & diarist, recorded their travels in watercolour in two small leather bound books. The result is an entirely charming, funny account along the lines of the legendary Three Men in a Boat with which the notebooks are entirely contemporaneous although the protagonists are younger & possibly naughtier. Baker records their evenings in the pub, their encounters with girls, (both ashore & afloat), nude swimming & culinary disasters, while recording lovingly the landscape & the boats on which they sailed. The notebook is published as a facsimile with an introduction by Michael Goffe, the son of one of Baker`s fellow students (GG in the text), to whom it was gifted.