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Drama! When the barge Matilda Upton hit Southend Pier

Author Gavin AtkinPosted on September 3, 2020Categories Boating, boats, ships and the sea1 Comment on Drama! When the barge Matilda Upton hit Southend Pier

Red Sails – a history of Thames sailing barges

Author Gavin AtkinPosted on March 8, 2020Categories Barges and wherries, Boating, boats, ships and the sea, History, Racing sailing craftTags History, sailing bargesLeave a comment on Red Sails – a history of Thames sailing barges

Swale Smack & Barge Match, 10th August 2019

Author Gavin AtkinPosted on July 21, 2019July 21, 2019Categories Barges and wherries, Events, Locations, Medway, Swale and the Kent coastTags barge match, sailing barge5 Comments on Swale Smack & Barge Match, 10th August 2019

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Latest posts at intheboatshed.net

  • Half-decked Nick Smith motor launch for sale
  • Further progress on the new traditional fishing boat
  • Farewell Topsails – 1937 film about the late era of working West Country topsail schooners
  • The amazing voyage of Cleopatra’s Needle
  • Inverloch Classic Dinghy Regatta 2023
  • Outstanding small boat adventurer Howard Rice tells his story for the Dinghy Cruising Association
  • Video: fisherman Johnny Doughty leads a rollocking Rye pub singalong – and big changes in boatbuilding
  • The Medway from Butcher’s Basin to Sheerness in 1938
  • Cobles explained, by an old TV programme
  • A free online course in wooden boat construction via Classic Boat

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