Sailing Instructor Wanted
If you are an RYA qualified sailing instructor, Faversham Sea Cadets need you! There are opportunities for subsidised career development. If you are available please contact P.O. Goldsmith at b.t.goldsmith@talk21.com
Category: Swale
Faversham Nautical Festival is success
Faversham Nautiocal Festival went with a swing at the weekend (14+15 July) with colourful traditional vessels, sea shanty singers and stands from all sorts of voluntary organisations.
Outboard thieves foiled at Queenborough
Harbour Manager Emma Crompton tells us what happened. On the afternoon of 25 June, an alert mooring holder at Queenborough Harbour spotted three chaps in an inflatable dinghy removing an outboard from another boat. The...
It’s getting worse! Please report all PWC incidents
Although many owners of personal watercraft (PWCs or jetskis) are responsible, anyone can see reckless and irresponsible behaviour almost any day on the Medway and the Swale. These craft are usually launched from Commodore’s...
Do you recognise this boat?
Kevin Duvall of Kent Wildlife Trust has contacted the MSBA because no-one else was able to help trace this boat. For several weeks a blue cabin cruiser has been stranded on the shingle bank...
Swale Smack & Sailing Barge Match, 4 (not 14) Aug 2018
The annual Swale Smack & Sailing Barge match is probably the most prestigious traditional boat event on the East Coast, and has been running since 1972. It is open to all Thames barges, smacks,...
Queenborough Harbour 3rd Classic Yacht & Motor Boat Festival, 29-30 September 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...
Seasalter SC sickened by theft of life-saving equipment
Members of a Swale-based sailing club have been sickened by the theft of a £1400 defibrillator that was bought two years ago after they lost a member to a heart attack. Read more at Kent...
Pirate Ship aground in the Swale
The “pirate ship” which blocked Sun Pier for weeks in the summer left Rochester Riverside on Sunday afternoon and ran aground this morning at the entrance to Faversham Creek, resulting in a lifeboat callout....
Swale Borough Council to meet boat clubs, 15 July
Swale Borough Council’s Scrutiny Committee’s “Task and Finish Group” is reviewing whether the Council is making the most of Swale’s Leisure and Tourism, including our coast and water-based leisure, to encourage more people to visit the borough....
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