This morning my post is a direct lift from today’s posting by the Sea Change Sailing Trust’s Facebook page.
In their own words, ”
Reminder and Cambria at Maldon, Picture by Sea Change Sailing Trust.
A reflection of Sea-Change’s training influence afloat with the groups of young people with whom it works could not have been better demonstrated than today. The charity is currently keeping two barges busy, its regular sailing barge Reminder, built in 1929 and the mighty engine-less Cambria of 1906, which slipped from Maldon together on this afternoon’s tide. Reminder warped alongside Cambria to pull her away from Maldon’s Hythe Quay in light airs. Parting and setting sail a mile down river off Heybridge Basin, only Cambria’s stern could be seen by those following by the time she bore away at the end of Collier’s Reach. This is testament to the significance of her heritage after 106 years entirely under sail and a clear demonstration of wind as an ongoing power source for the future, despite today’s gentle conditions. One of Sea-Change’s aims is to train young sailors, many of whom return independently after initially sailing as members of support groups, in traditional sea-going skills. These young people will enable working sailing vessels to survive into the future, both to their benefit and other young people’s, to the vessel’s and country’s heritage and to the environment”.