Our first boatshed is a prince among sheds
This is Hollowshore Services, at the junction between Faversham and Oare creeks. Probably better known as Tester’s yard, Hollowshore Services specialises in smacks, and so this remote corner of Kent is...
View ArticleA barge with a Viking-style square sail
The Humber keel Comrade is a rare surviving example of a type of craft evolved to work the difficult Humber Estuary, and its tributaries and canals. She was built in 1923, at Warren’s shipyard at New...
View ArticleA great find at the Eventide Owners Group website
Here’s a link I’ve been looking forward to putting up about another Maurice Griffiths favourite, Idle Duck, which by chance spent much of the summer sitting on a barge bottom a few feet from our own...
View ArticleSmack and Barge racing off Whitstable – Neil Baker’s photos
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] From the top: three photos of the 2004 Whitstable Smack and Barge Race, the rest are from 2008. Smacks Gamecock and Emeline appear in several photos, as do the barges...
View ArticleSharpie schooner Sound Waters Eagle
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Sound Waters Eagle, schooner or a variety of ketch? From America, Peter Vanderwaart writes: ‘I found the pictures of smack and barge racing very interesting. For some...
View ArticleHoymen and barges
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Sailing barges Pudge, Wivenhoe and Zylonite Wivenhoe. I took both photos on the Blackwater, while sailing with Yahoogroup Openboat moderator and old friend Johnny Adams...
View ArticleOur first half-million hits
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Thames barges on the Blackwater – one of the first photos to appear at intheboatshed.net It feels a little funny when I think of it, but some time in the next two or...
View ArticleThe Albert Strange Association offers a grand day out, sailing by barge from...
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Wyvenhoe The Albert Strange Association folks have had a brilliant idea for their annual meet – offering those who are interested the grandest of grand days out. They’re...
View ArticleWhat it’s really all about…
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Click on the images for much larger photos. The one at the top makes a particularly fine background – click on the thumbnail, then click on your right mouse button when...
View ArticleThe steel-built Forest & Stream skiff makes further progress
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Over in Germany, Hans-Christian Rieck has written with news and photos of the steel-built Forest & Stream skiff he’s making with some unemployed kids. I should...
View ArticleTraditional steel Dutch dinghy and Forest & Stream skiff compared
[ad name=”intheboatshed-post”] Dutch dinghy and steel-built Forest & Stream skiff Over in Holland, Hans-Christian Rieck has taken these photos of a traditional steel-built Dutch dinghy of a type...
View ArticleCharles Dickens the younger goes off on one
One of Whistler’s ‘nocturne’ series paintings dated 1872-5, including showing a lighter or dumb barge on the Thames in London. The image is from the Wikipedia I’ve been greatly enjoying Dickens’s...
View ArticleDutch barges on the Medway, near Allington
A photogallery stroll on the River Medway at Allington in Kent, including Dutch barges, a Thames barge yacht, various other craft and an Archimedes screw – I must visit with a larger camera some day,...
View ArticleBarges on the Seine and beyond
There’s some splendid footage of French barges and barging life in this charming film on Vimeo. And I can recommend the music too! My thanks to my musical friend Liam Robinson for spotting this one.
View ArticleExciting news – The Swing the Bridge appeal is making good progress
The Swing the Bridge apeal aims to raise £125,000 by 1st October 2015 with the aim of enabling a new swing bridge to be built to replace the old one, which is on its way out. The money will be added to...
View ArticleKentish Sail Association calendar 2017 is out now
The Kentish Sail Association calendar for 2017 is out now and I’m told it’s made up of 12 stunning photos of barges, smacks and gaff rigged vessels and other veteran craft from this year’s Swale Match....
View ArticleHow to talk like a barge skipper
The British Library is an amazing institution and its website is a tremendous resource, not least because of the wey it can connect people. Here’s shipwright and barge skipper Rick Cardy, retired barge...
View ArticleBritain Afloat: meet Jimmy Lawrence
Britain Afloat is on BBC One London and South East on Friday, 29 September at 19:30 and on BBC Two on Saturday 30 September at 20:00. It will also be available on the iPlayer across Britain for 30 days...
View Article2018 KSA calendar is out now!
The KSA’s calendar for 2018 is now out, and I don’t doubt it’s just as stunning as usual, and no do doubt features shots from the famous Swale Match. Copies cost £8.00 from the Faversham Fleur de Lis...
View ArticleClassic barge TV film Sailorman on the BFI website
It’s always good to listen to what the old time barge skippers had to say…
View Article