Boat Move
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Issue: 3 Updated : 24th February 2010
From Brighton on the Sussex South Coast to Chatham North Kent on the River Medway

Passing Deal with its unique seafront clock with rising & falling time ball, an aid to mariners in times gone by

Royal St Georges Golf Course Sandwich

Richborough with the cooling towers of the now redundant emulsified oil burning Power Station
This area was once site of Richborough Camp a military installation then as a major cross channel port for the Great War 1914-1918 then became Camp Kitchener refugee village
Between the wars train ferries ran to Zeebrugge, refugees returned in WW2 1939-1945
From 1969 - 1987 close to the old Port Richborough, Pegwell Bay was base of Kent's Hoverport (Ramsgate)


Ramsgate Harbour Entrance

On the visitors mooring Ramsgate

Overview of Ramsgate Harbour from the Royal Cinque Ports Yacht Club

Kalimera S part of the historic ship collection
Same build style as the Radio Atlantis vessel the Jeannine

Ramsgate Harbour site from the air

Leaving Ramsgate with the HGV TransEuropa Ferry in background

TransEuropa Ferries publicity shot
Rounding North Foreland, Pilot on way back to Ramsgate

The Old Church Towers Reculver, see them on one of our Boat Trips
Hoo Robin lying off Herne Bay, the Hoo Coasters from the Medway often at Whitstable Harbour off loading wood cargos onto the West Quay

The remains of the once splendid Victorian Herne Bay Pier
Nearly a mile out it's a sad sight of dereliction