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MATTHEW
AVENUE OF SAIL Standing tall
The Avenue of Sail is a static display of 270 boats too tall to parade under the river’s fixed bridges. They will be moored above and below Tower Bridge, both on the river and in St Katharine Docks. The Avenue has Tall Ships, including historic replicas Matthew of Bristol and Drake’s Golden Hinde. Nine Thames Barges will be there, including the recently-restored Cambria and the charming half-sized ‘farm barge’ Cygnet. Other Thames Estuary workboats include the 70ft (21.3m) ‘first class’ smack Pioneer, rescued from the mud of West Mersea, and the Leigh cockle bawley (and Dunkirk Little Ship) Endeavour, both restored by the team of Rupert
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Marks, Brian Kennell and Shaun White. The 204-year-old smack Boadicea has been sailing continuously since her launch. From further afield are the
Scaffie Obair Na Ghoal and a Humber Keel, Daybreak. Round- the-world yachts include Sir Francis Chichester’s Gipsy Moth IV, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s Suhaili, and two of Sir Chay Blyth’s Global Challenge yachts, now providing sail-training as Challenge Wales and the services’ Endeavour of Hornet.
Leisure yachts range from the 102ft (31m) steam yacht Amazon (1885) and the magnificent 110-year-old 80ft (24.4m) Coral of Cowes, designed by Fred Shepherd, to Flight of Ufford, built in 2007 by Spirit Yachts of Ipswich.
FLIGHT OF UFFORD ONES TO WATCH FOR
TWO FINE FIFES Mariquita, 125ft (38.1m), 1911, is the only surviving 19-Metre Fife. Eilean, 72.5ft (22.1m), 1936, is the Panerai-owned ketch on which CB’s editor crossed the Atlantic in January (CB286).
FLAGSHIP BARGE Thames Sailing Barge Edith May, 1906, has been named National Historic Ships Flagship for 2012.
SURVIVAL OF A LITTLE SHIP Tahilla, a 1922 Thornycroft motor yacht, survived Dunkirk, despite being bombed and abandoned. More Dunkirk Little Ships, p16.
ROUND THE WORLD NON-STOP “Where from?” asked the Falmouth customs officer. “Falmouth,” replied Robin Knox-Johnston in 1969, at the end of the first solo, non-stop circumnavigation in his Bombay-built Suhaili.
DUKE’S DISCOVERY Kathleen & May, the Westcountry schooner, was discovered by the Duke of Edinburgh himself – he set up the Maritime Trust to rescue her.
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