Mersea Museum, Mersea Island, Essex
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When a colony of summer people sprang up in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, they took note of the spritsail boats traditionally used in the local fishing fleet.
Maldon is known throughout the country and in many parts of the world as the foremost modern-day centre for Thames sailing barges. The badge of Maldon District itself is a Thames sailing barge. These are among the last cargo vessels in the world still operating under sail, albeit now used in the spheres of education and leisure. Some ten to fifteen of the surviving fleet count Maldon as their home port, and many others are regular visitors alongside at the Hythe quay. An annual sailing barge race ends with a parade of sail and prize-giving at the quay. The yard where barges were once built is still working at the end of Maldon quay.
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Projet de création d’une barge d’habitation pour une famille de 4 personnes. Le projet est évolutif avec divers éléments flottants qui peuvent être raccordés à la barge. Posée sur une structure flottante métallique protégée par un traitement époxy, une structure bois traditionnelle est ensuite ajoutée pour la partie habitation. Cette structure bois / métal permet des…
Spud barge are useful in construction and other applications where a barge needs to be fixed into position.
The carriage of goods in river barges was for centuries one of the principal forms of commercial transport in Britain. This book is the result of 40 years’ research into river navigations that have left few paper records. The author focuses on the River Severn between the Worcestershire ports of Bewdley and Stourport, and the […]
German Siebel Ferries, essentially two barges joined by a platform. The ferries were initially developed as transports for Operation Sea-lion. Although that fell through, they continued to be built and were frequently re-purposed as heavily armed escorts. They were frequently encountered by the Royal Navy's especially in the Mediterranean's coastal waters, where roving Fairmile D Dog boats would attack the convoys they escorted. British Fairmile D Motor Torpedo Boat.
Picture of Thames Sailing Barges at Faversham
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The rusting hulls of Lough Neagh sand dredgers. Slide film circa 1980.
Stock image 1895-29285: Beached barges, c 1890 A photograph of two barges, taken by Colonel Joseph Gale c 1835-1906 in about 1890 Judging by the size of the river and the ad...
Image source Great article on narrow canal boats. Moon to Moon's great post on houseboats Image source Image source Image source Image sourc...
If you’re a new reader, I use “sixth boro” as a way to recognize the city space that IMHO deserves recognition as its own unitary name; without the water, justification for the c…
Long post, sorry, I have a 15' flat bottom rowing/sailing skiff that I built a number of years ago. Family/work got in the way and it mostly sat on the back porch, patiently waiting for me to use it. When I did get to use it was in lighter winds common to the Seattle summer and generally in reasonably sized bodies of water. Im now living in Ocean Shores. WA and sailing on Duck lake which is a very narrow body of water, cut by 3 bridges that require dropping the rig to clear and dealing with
A kodachrome slide, scanned. Dated 05/87 27, number 30. Looks like we're at Maldon, Essex.
