Our upstream partner organisation, the Medway River Users Association, has just announced that “due to complete incompetence of Maidstone Borough Council the towpath/footpath is closed from this week until late Aug 2017; this will...
Brian Corbett, MSBA Chairman, talks about sailing Winifred, his Herreshoff half-rater.
Crime / Dinghy sailing / Kayaking / Peel Ports / Police / PWCs / RNLI / Safety
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 12th April 2017
On Sunday afternoon, 9 April, a man fell about 10 feet onto another crew member from the mast of a yacht moored in Gillingham Reach. While the injured man was given oxygen, the Sheerness...
Queenborough / Sailing / Training
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 10th April 2017 · Last modified 11th April 2017
The famous tall ship, TS Royalist, will be coming to Queenborough Harbour on Tuesday 11 April at approximately 4.00pm. This will be their second visit. Well worth coming to have a look. The new sail...
Queenborough Harbour Trust CIC is delighted to have been awarded £500,000 from the Coastal Community Fund Awards, Round 4, to develop Queenborough harbour’s mooring facilities and in so doing support the local visitor economy....
Working with Rochester Oyster and Floating Fishery, Kent and Essex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA) is leading the way in marine conservation with the creation of the UK’s largest no-take zone in the...
Festival / History/archaeology / Medway Council / Rally
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 3rd April 2017 · Last modified 4th April 2017
The Dutch are well underway with the registration of the 200 or so yachts and ships coming to the Medway for the historic event. The really good news is that the bulk of the...
Kayaking / Medway Council / Open Day / Training
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 1st April 2017 · Last modified 9th April 2017
Our three local MPs show us how it should be done today at the Medway Watersports Trust Open Day: (left to right) Kelly Tolhurst, Tracey Crouch and Rehman Chishti. Kelly is Patron of the...
April Fool / Environment / Motor cruising / Navigation / Wildlife / Yacht cruising
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 1st April 2017 · Last modified 2nd April 2022
Anchoring in Stangate Creek in the heart of the Medway Estuary, which is a Marine Conservation Zone, is to be prohibited from today, April 1st, following the discovery of several colonies of tentacled lagoon worms Alkmaria...
Statistics from RNLI Sheerness for 2016: Total launches in 2016 for the Sheerness lifeboats were 83. A total of 86 persons were rescued with 4 being deemed as lives saved with casualty care being...
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