Boat Show / Classic motor vessels / Classic vessels / Festival / Queenborough / Swale
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 26 March, 2018 · Last modified 28 March, 2018
The festival is open to any boat, large or small, designed or built before 1970 – wood, steel, aluminium, fibreglass, ferro cement, sail, power, steam or other, the bigger the variety of boats the...
Classic motor vessels / Festival
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 15 March, 2018 · Last modified 23 March, 2018
SE Tugs have booked the 1948 motor tug Kent into the Maritime Festival in Ipswich on the weekend of 18-19 August. The Ipswich Maritime Festival features heritage vessels, tugs, tall ships etc and takes...
Classic vessels / Sailing barges
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 14 March, 2018 · Last modified 17 March, 2018
In recent gales, the stern section of the old sailing barge Westmoreland, berthed at Lower Halstow, broke away and “sailed” round to Funton Creek, just south of Chetney Hill, where it has joined the remains...
Classic vessels / Sailing barges / Talk or lecture
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 25 February, 2018 · Last modified 24 February, 2018
Inland Waterways Association talk on Thursday, 25 January 2018, 7.30 for 8.00 pm at Strood Yacht Club, Knight Road, Strood, ME2 2AH Michael Farnham will be giving an illustrated talk on the history of sailing...
Fire crews saved the 1900 steel sailing barge “Ironsides” at Iron Wharf, Faversham, after yet another fire broke out yesterday morning. Read more at Kent Online…
Venue: Aboard saling barge Edith May at Lower Halstow Dock, Lapwing Drive, Lower Halstow. When: 11 Nov, 1030-1600 with parking available Nick was brought up, afloat, on a Thames spritsail barge: his childhood life...
PS Waverley, the last passenger-carrying sea-going paddle steamer in the world, visited the Medway on Saturday as part of her annual round Britain cruise. The historic tug Touchstone was among the local boats that went...
Faversham / History/archaeology / Queenborough / Sailing barges
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 30 September, 2017 · Last modified 29 September, 2017
A surprisingly good programme on BBC1 about the Thames sailing barge, featuring Nick Ardley and other experts. Many of the beautifully shot scenes are local to the Medway and Swale. Visit BBC iPlayer…
MSBA fan Mark Thorne, known to many as the first mate on X-Pilot, has acquired the classic Tom Pudding tug “Water Haigh” which is currently on the mud near Strood Pier. He is requesting...
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