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Master Class

21st March 2013 By matt_care

Sail-maker Steve Hall helps rig the Cambria March 2013
Sail-maker Steve Hall helps rig the Cambria March 2013

The Cambria team were treated to a real master class in rigging over the weekend. The tops’l had been damaged at some point while the gear was down by, we believe, some careless use of an angle grinder by a quayside contractor using an angle grinder to cut away (perfectly useful!) old mooring chains. The shower of sparks had burned small holes in the sail cloth. With our gear still down, our Sail Maker, Steve Hall from North Sea Sails (Tollesbury) was booked to come down to patch a repair into the sails prior to heaving up.

 

Driving all the way from Essex, Steve decided to bring friend and fellow sail-maker, Jim Lawrence down to help him. I apologise for the pictures which make these barge-world VIPs look like soggy scarecrows, dressed as they were in wet weather gear as befit the day, but apparently they all had a brilliant time and were treated to a master class in rigging, sail repairing and heaving up by the visitors. Jim apparently kept up his usual flow of anecdotes and chatter, both the guys were stitching at one stage and we even had Jim on the windlass helping to heave up. We are honoured humbled and delighted.

 

Thank you Jimmy and Steve, Thank You Skipper Ian Ruffles and Mate Denis Johnson, and I have also seen Basil in other pictures from this set which were taken by (Thank You, too) Dave Brooks.

 

Former Barge Skipper Jimmy Lawrence aboard Cambria
Former Barge Skipper Jimmy Lawrence aboard Cambria

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: angle grinder, Dave Brooks, Denis Johnson, Ian Ruffles, Jim Lawrence, North Sea Sails, Steve Hall, Tollesbury

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Cambria is in the drydock at Fullbridge for a scrub and antifoul.
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So beautiful. When she is in Dry dock like that you can really see the diferences between the Kent and Essex barges and the lines of construction. Is that the original Transom cos to me it seems a bit more angular. Wasnt she registered at Rochester originally? Or was it just that she was kept there(flags flying, she was lovely.)

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Here's one from the late sixties in upnor my dad repairing the rudder

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The baggywinkle has been fitted to the barge to stop the mains'l rubbing on the wire when brailed up
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hah never found out that thats what it was called!

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Can I have a bit for the receding hairline!!

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took a few hours to make it

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