This book shows Edward Fitzgerald as a much more forceful character in a rather different role. Local stories of old Fitz still abound in Suffolk where from 1860 onwards he kept his yacht, The Scandal, named after the staple product of Woodbridge. He also had a half share in a herring-lugger, The Meum and Tuum, with his favourite sea companion, the local Seaman Posh Fletcher. Mr Hussey recounts not only Fitzgerald's own voyages in the scandal, but also the scandals history after Fitzgerald sold her., and he also looks at the one literary result of Fit’s interest in the sea, his little book on Sea words and phrases. This is a delight full book which will please both literary readers interested in Fitzgerald and Yachtsman who know and love the East Anglia coast.