This is a very familiar place, but I don’t often see it from quite this angle…
Category: Medway, Swale and the Kent coast
Medway, Swale and the Kent coast
Faversham Nautical Festival fun in the sun…
Well, it was everything you’d expect, with boats, music, stalls and people, and what’s more the sun came out! Well done, the folks of Faversham!
Boats in the Creek
Boats in the Creek
Tug Barking. See http://www.vic96.co.uk/barking.html
Sailing barge Decima
Replica Anglo-Saxon boat
Replica Anglo-Saxon boat
Replica Anglo-Saxon boat
Boats in the Creek
Boats in the Creek
Rigdens-built dinghy on Alan Staley’s stand
Gorgeous one-piece oars made by Rigdens many years ago, here on alan Staley’s stand
Boats in the Creek
Boats in the Creek
A sailing barge mooring line tied to a tree!
A happy Dane
Faversham Parish Church
Seagulls
Photos from the Purifier Building – a John Welsford Joansa and the apprentices’ replica of the Mayhi
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Two very different boats are being built in workshops in the Faversham Creek Trust’s Purifier Building: boatbuilder Alan Thorne working with his son Mark is building a John Welsford Joansa rowing skiff as a pilot for a project for school children, while downstairs apprentices are constructing a replica of the racing yacht Mayhi, which I think is already looking fabulous…