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First of our clinker built found on the Medway & bought for £3

Bare of paint it looked more solid than it was, it was painted with black varnish below the waterline & inside with white topsides

Second clinker built at Seasalter lime green & blue mixed from various pots of old gloss - nice!

This one came from Canterbury & cost us £5 but came with just about everything

Sadly we never had courage to sail it rather rowing or using a dilapidated British Anzani engine

Tragic struck shortly after the purchase of this 24ft Clinker Built Day Cruiser, she lost her mooring off Whitstable in a force 8 & came ashore by a concrete groin by the Old Neptune Whitstable

With her back broken she haulled up the beach by Andersons boat yard & declared a total loss, the diesel engine was removed & the hull burnt in situe with all copper & brass nailswere retrieved to be sold as scrap

We'd bought her for a song & remarkably even though she was uninsured, from the sale of the engine & scrap we only lost £7.00

Dejon 14 in the snow at Seasalter, there are more pictures of this & other Dejon 14's on Bill Allerton's website Dejon 14

Moorhen at Tyler Hill

One of our two Mirror Dinghies

From Whitstable harbour ramp

The other Mirror at Westgate-on-Sea

Then on the River Stour Fordwich

Another day on the Stour Grove Ferry

Following the big storm of 1978 on the abandoned & isolated Herne Bay Pier head

Victorian Pavilion where once the ferries put in before sailing to Margate then across to Calais

Mirror on the Stour towards the Westgate Gardens & through the City of Canterbury

Launching by the Whistable Harbour Dolphin

Out towards the Whitstable Oyster Buoy

Approaching the harbour & back in

Jaguar 25

Pictured in Gillingham Marina

Sailing on the River Medway that divides Men of Kent born east & Kentish Men born west of the river

At the mouth of the Medway is Garrison Fort one of the Palmerston Forts

For the 4 forts between the Isle-of-Wight & Portsmouth see Solent

Across the Medway & Thames Estuary

See Medway Ports for details of shipping & sailing the Medway

Southend in the Background

Henrietta in Whitstable harbour

The vessel we used to service Caroline through the 1980's

Gibsea about to pass under the 1960 Kingsferry Bridge on the Swale

The Isle of Sheppey fixed link see Stangate for the new Sheppey Crossing

Hollow Shore by the Shipwrights Inn at the junction of Faversham & Oare Creeks

High summer off Dover

Horse Sands Fort in the Solent off Portsmouth

Middle Sands Fort

The Nab Tower off Bembridge the Isle of Wight marks the Solent shipping lane approaches

There are more pictures of these forts in Solent

Ferries & HM Warships make to sea from Portsmouth

Leaving Fecamp home of Radio Normandie

The first English language commercial radio programme was in 1925 sponsored by Selfridges & transmitted by Radio Paris who had a transmitter sited on the Eiffel Tower

The International Broadcasting Company (IBC) as Radio Normandy began in October 1931 on 265.5 m 1113kc's from studios in Fecamp using a 10 kw transmitter

Le Havre Marina

Moored in the picturesque Honfleur town harbour basin

Papillion of Sheppey in Whitstable harbour primarily used for fishing parties

Alan Annis catches a Bass

Graham Croft lands first of the Skate as Peter Dale looks pleased with his Bass

Not a fisherman's tale as I show off the three decent skate I caught in 20 minutes

North West view towards the Isle-of-Sheppey

Medway FM Chairman's boat Sea Rogue in Dover before we made a heavy weather night sail to Ipswich

First picture of Beneteau 393 Clipper rounding Beachy Head for Eastbourne in 2002

Lydia Crewe of Bates Wharf Marine Eastbourne

On the hard at Eastbourne

The Belize registered Nore Commodore

Owned by Murray Tugs (Nore Maritime) Queenborough Isle of Sheppey Kent operational in Newhaven

For more on Murray Tugs see Big L 1997

Preparing to sail from our favourite mooring

In Chichester harbour

On the visitors pontoon at Emsworth

Again in Chichester harbour

Light airs off Seven Sisters

Moored off Pelsey Island

For more Maritime adventures see Solent : South Coast Sailing : Boat Move : Stangate : Ghost Ship : Forts Race

For Barge Sailing pictures navigate from Greta 1

For all Whitstable Harbour days boats & shipping navigate from Harbour Days

For all our nautical features navigate from Afloat

Join us on a Sailing Trip from the North Kent Coast see Boat Trips