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Classic Boat’s address:
Liscartan House, 127-131 Sloane Street, London SW1X 9AS For phone numbers, please see page 7
LONDON Jubilee Pageant: classics galore
The final list of boats has been confirmed for the greatest show on water – the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Thames Pageant on 3 June. A thousand boats will take part, stretching for an estimated 12.5 miles along the Thames in central London. The procession will run in ten sections, each preceded by a barge carrying a music ensemble of some sort. These include the London Philharmonic Orchestra which will be playing Handel’s Water Music.
LOCH FYNE New trad event at Tarbert
Scotland’s Loch Fyne will play host to a new event on the classic sailing calendar this 13-15 July, with the first Tarbert Traditional Boat Festival. All traditional boats are welcome for a weekend of sailing with live music on the Saturday night. Contact Phil Robertson at stclaireringer@
hotmail.co.uk.
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The parade opens with the royal rowbarge Gloriana (see p89) as well as other ‘man-powered’ vessels including shallops, Thames cutters, gigs and skiffs. The Queen and the royal party will travel on the ‘Royal Barge’ (Thames cruiser Spirit of Chartwell, disguised).
Following her will come vessels from the Royal Yacht Britannia, Dunkirk Little Ships, historic forces vessels, fireboats, lifeboats, steamboats, tugs and workboats,
BOAT MUSEUM
Classic collection moves to Cowes
JECKELLS
Competition winners Congratulations to Annie and Louis Bodmer from Norwich, who have won £1,000-worth of high-quality sails from Jeckells in our recent competition.
CLASSIC BOAT MARCH 2012
Over the next few months, more than 50 boats belonging to Cowes Classic Boat Museum will be moving from their present site in Newport Quay to a new home six miles away on East Cowes waterfront just yards from the museum. The £15,000 move has been made possible by money from the South East England Development Agency as part of the regeneration of East Cowes. The collection includes an Uffa Fox airborne lifeboat and Coweslip, Prince Philip’s Flying Fifteen. Museum chair Jessica Hart described the task as “taking a jigsaw puzzle apart and putting it back together.”
Thames Pageant is shaping up to be an event to remember
narrow boats and Dutch barges. Leisure vessels will include many Thames Trad favourites, such as Islay and St Joan. The static Avenue of Sail by Tower Bridge will feature Tall Ships, paddle steamer Waverley, workboats such as Boadicea, Endeavour, Pioneer and Provident, with Bluebird of 1938, Gipsy Moth IV, Suhaili, Sheemaun and Eilean among the yachts. They will be joined by no fewer than nine Thames sailing barges.
BRITANNIA
Britain bound The Big Class replica of the royal yacht Britannia will soon arrive in Cowes, IoW, where she will be owned and maintained by a new trust set up to keep her in Britain. More to follow.
CORRECTION In last month’s Charter Guide, on p59, a photo depicting a Seaview Mermaid was wrongly captioned as being a photo of a Solent Sunbeam. Apologies.
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