John Minear, Maldon Salt is a good choice! It is harvested in the English town of Maldon, Essex. World-renowned, Maldon’s distinctive pyramid salt flakes have been skilfully made using the same traditional artisan methods since 1882. Thames sailing barges are still moored along the waterfront at Maldon and the Thames Sailing Barge Trust is based there.

The last Thames barge to trade entirely under sail was the Everard-built Cambria owned by 'Bob' Roberts, who sailed the Cambria for more than twenty years. https://intheboatshed.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p8-EDS-spring-2103_LO-RES.pdf; Who was Alfred William ‘Bob’ Roberts?

For the folk world, he was a proper sailing barge skipper, traditional singer and melodeon player. A charismatic performer, he appeared at EFDSS festivals at the Albert Hall in the 1950s, made a series of LPs, and sang at many folk clubs. His contracts to perform always specified he would appear ‘winds and tides permitting’.

Bob’s daughter, Anne, remembers her father singing deep sea sailors’ shanties learned when he was a young man, and recalls how he later came to learn songs associated with inshore fishing and barge
crews, and also rural songs from old boys in the pubs around the Essex coast and particularly Pin Mill, where he lived for many years with his first wife and young family.

A big change came in the early 1950s when Bob met folk song collector Peter Kennedy. This led to Bob becoming involved with Kennedy’s BBC Archive recordings and the influential 1950s radio series As I Roved Out, and also with the American collector Alan Lomax.