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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
This morning I have some fairly random bits of content about Thames sailing barges to share.
The first is this website about hoys, the occupation of hoymen and Thames sailing barges, written from the perspective of someone descended from a family of 17th century settlers, some of which were hoymen.
Yahoogroup Boatdesign moderator and developer of helpful calculators Peter Vanderwaart pointed out the striking photograph below showing three barges sailing briskly – they come from a Flickr photostream put up by the National Maritime Museum.
If you happen to be in the market for something marvellous, Kitty, an 1895 Harwich-built sailing barge launched in 1895, is for sale.
Sailing barges off Northfleet
