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New Twitter Account

29th August 2014 By matt_care

Faversham Creek Hotel Signage
Faversham Creek Hotel Signage

I apologise for the lack of postings on here for a couple of weeks – the barge has been properly busy on a mission to Great Yarmouth under the Skippership of Richard Titchener of the Sea Change Sailing Trust but the reporting suffered a techie problem and was not able to supply me with the usual “Cambria Watch” stories. I hope you were able to pic up the stories and comment running on either Facebook, or re-tweeted by me from Sea Change on the @SB Cambria twitter feed.

Talking of which, I am pleased to be able to tell you the twitter feed has now been replaced and ‘official-ised’, and is re-born as @Cambria Trust. You may know that I had been running the old twitter feed from my own personal email as the Trust did not have one; this being by way of a pilot project. It went well. I ended up ‘following’ 105 barge and Thames related feeds and had gained 106 ‘followers’ of my own, and was getting a regular supply of comment. ‘re-tweets’ and ‘favourites’ (which are how feeds are judged and measured). I had posted 364 posts. Well, now the Trust have decided to take it ‘in-house’ and we do not want the confusion of 2 sites with one (mine) not necessarily speaking for the Trust, so I am taking mine down and would ask you all to transfer your following to the new site. Thank you for your support over the time I was at the helm. It has been enjoyable and a privilege.

 

Meanwhile, I loved this bit of sign-writing found by Cambria Shipwright Ryan Dale on the wall of the Faversham Creek Hotel (formerly the Swan and Harlequin and before that the Coal Exhange if memory serves. This re-vamp has happened since I left Faversham for Irish waters, but looking at the website, it looks well worth a visit, especially the Red Sails Restaurant. More on this on https://www.facebook.com/FavershamCreekHotelAndRestaurant

 

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Cambria Trust, Faversham Creek Hotel, Great Yarmouth, Red Sails Restaurant, Richard Titchener, SB Cambria, Sea Change, Twitter

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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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