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Dec
Sea Ice Fills St Osyth Creek
Ice floes in the south of the UK. Local creeks frozen and work on our Schooner Trinovante grinds to a halt..
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Dec
The Fishing Smack Pioneer On The Slipway
Trinovante is booked on the St Osyth Boatyard Slipway for antifouling in March. Before us the fishing smack ‘Pioneer’ is in for routine maintenance. Pioneer looks like a brand new boat and needs a minimum of routine maintenance; a bit of recaulking here, a seacock checked there and some new paint. In fact Pioneer was built way back in 1864 at Rowhedge.
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Dec
St Osyth Creek – The Old Barge Quay
The saltings along St Osyth Creek are littered with history if you know what you are looking at. We have been wandering past the old wooden quay side for years but only recently found out a little more about it from local shipwright Alan Williams.
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