Classic motor vessels / Classic vessels / Regatta / Sailing barges / Swale
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 10 August, 2021 · Last modified 9 August, 2021
Report by Julian Mannering Last Saturday witnessed the 48th annual Swale Smack & Sailing Barge Match and the magnificent sight of some thirty traditional vessels racing in the River Swale off Faversham and Whitstable....
Classic vessels / Faversham / Regatta / Sailing barges / Swale
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 1 July, 2021 · Last modified 30 June, 2021
Classic motor vessels / Classic vessels / Faversham / Festival / Regatta / Sailing / Sailing barges / Swale
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 25 March, 2021
David Pollock of the Kentish Sail Association writes: After 2 years’ cancellations, we’re hoping for a third time lucky and invite you to take part in the Match on 31 July 2021. The Swale...
Classic vessels / People / Sailing barges / Swale / Training
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 22 March, 2021
Thames Sailing Barge Raybel, moored at Milton Creek in Sittingbourne, is recruiting: Assistant/Trainee Shipwright Full Time With restoration work now underway we are looking for someone to join the shipwright team. A rare opportunity to work...
Classic motor vessels / Classic vessels / History/archaeology
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 4 February, 2021
Everything is still locked down by winter and the pandemic but the Medway Queen Preservation Society has ambitious plans for the coming year. All dependent, of course, on Covid and in some respects the...
Classic vessels / History/archaeology / Queenborough / Sailing barges / Swale
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 24 January, 2021 · Last modified 1 February, 2021
The historic Queenborough Harbour is to be linked with Milton Creek. At Queenborough, the harbour trust is improving mooring facilities for Thames sailing barges. Lloyds Wharf, in Milton Creek, is home to the Raybel...
Classic vessels / History/archaeology / Sailing barges / Swale
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 19 November, 2020
On the high tide of 16 November, after months of careful planning, the restoration team successfully manoeuvred the sailing barge Raybel into her dry dock in Milton Creek at Sittingbourne. More information…
A feather in the cap for Medway becoming Britain’s first Heritage Harbour is the visit by this beautiful gaff-rigged schooner, Te Vega, designed by Cox and Stevens of New York and built in 1930...
The sailing vessel De Gallant is returning to our shores with a cargo of olive oil, olives, wine, coffee and chocolate, almonds, chick peas, pinto beans, sea salt and honey. Here’s the schedule, subject...
Welders at the Dockyard called these low, stable working platforms “soggy logs”. John Sutton, owner of the Russian submarine, lost his when it was “borrowed.” He says, “it was about 15ft x 6ft with...
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