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It's getting better all the ti-y-ime...
Now is the time to book your last minute summer break, right here in the UK. We have some places on the seven day Three Rivers Voyage...
Aug 4, 20231 min read
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We're off to the Isles of Scilly !
Some last minute changes to arrangements mean we will be starting and finishing our last voyage in Fowey, in Cornwall. Three days...
Jul 30, 20231 min read
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avoiding the gateway to hell
In Greek mythology Cerberus is the three headed dog that guards the gateway to Hell. Not to keep people out but to keep them in! We are...
Jul 14, 20231 min read
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Big changes and new adventures
We have been making plans over the winter for some big changes in how and where we operate and the activities and adventures we offer to...
Jul 3, 20233 min read
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Why 'Snark'
Why is our ship called Snark? Not a reference to the snarky American form of sarcasm but to an imaginary beast. Louise Carrol, of Alice...
Apr 11, 20232 min read
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The Rhythms of Snark
Life aboard our sailing barge Snark follows the rhythms of the world. The changing seasons dictate the length of the day and bring fine...
Apr 10, 20232 min read
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Coast and rivers and Tall Ships
Snark is a sea going spritsail barge capable of sailing around the shores of Britain and Europe but uniquely can also cruising deep into...
Mar 28, 20231 min read
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Messing about in boats
‘There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't...
Mar 22, 20231 min read
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Classic boats and shanties
After a couple of days mooching around the Scilly Isles our fourth voyage will take us back to Falmouth for the Classics regatta and...
Mar 16, 20231 min read
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in the wake of 'the lucky barge'
Our third holiday trip this summer will take us from Dartmouth to Torbay to see the famous air show from the sea and then along the south...
Mar 13, 20231 min read
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Heading upstream
The principal port on most West Country rivers was not something-mouth but the head of the tidal navigable river. Thus, Truro not...
Mar 9, 20232 min read
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Sailing past the Needles
The last Thames barge to bring a commercial cargo into the Dart was the S.B. Will Everard who reportedly brought a load of Norfolk reed...
Mar 8, 20231 min read
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New plans for 2023
Following our successful circumnavigation of Britain in 2022 we had planned to go further afield in 2023 with a voyage to Copenhagen and...
Feb 26, 20233 min read
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The greening of Snark?
Well it is true that over the winter months everything seems to go green, from the bottom to the ropes but that's not really what this...
Jan 15, 20232 min read
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Every path starts at your front door
“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where...
Nov 27, 20223 min read
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The wind gods finally win...
This morning we disembarked our last passengers in Newlyn (Penzance) two days short of our destination Plymouth. The wind gods had...
Sep 13, 20226 min read
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Voyage around the land of my fathers
Our passengers arrived together, bang on time having met on the bus from Bangor, the nearest station. Only two this time after another...
Sep 11, 20223 min read
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Irish Sea
Belfast is a strange place. The city centre feels safe and welcoming unlike the last time I visited, however one of our last guests...
Aug 31, 20224 min read
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Loads of lochs, locks and loughs.
Our passengers arrived in far-flung Inverness wired after stressful journeys by train, plane, car and donkey. Well, no not the donkey...
Aug 18, 20229 min read
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Over the top ....
Well not quite, we aren’t braving the Pentland Firth and Cape Wrath but taking the chicken route through the Cali. However for a Thames...
Jul 29, 20224 min read
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into the North
Whitby is a delightful town, full of history and fish and chips. Very little of this fish is landed locally anymore and you have to...
Jul 19, 20225 min read
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Whoever said the east coast was boring....
I am writing this sitting in Whitby having completed leg 4 which should have been a simple delivery trip from Lowestoft without...
Jul 7, 20225 min read
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Leg 3 to Essex and beyond....
Our next guest Barbara arrived at Limehouse basin bang on 4 o'clock having travelled all the way from Hackney by bus (about 5 miles for...
Jul 2, 20227 min read
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and on to London
Our lay days on Eastbourne were spent fitting our new Rain Man water maker and doing running repairs to the mizzen, all complete and...
Jun 21, 20226 min read
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