The best group of shanty singers we’ve heard in many years, The Boarding Party is made up of five men from the Washington area, two of whom are English, three American. Many of the songs are here recorded for the first time. Shanties and fo’c’sle ballads of England, America, and the West Indies, including rare gems from the group’s Chesapeake Bay “home waters”. To listen to The Boarding Party is to live again, if only in your heart, the days of the great square-rigged sailing ships.