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Duvets and bedding stowed below in black bags in a cabin to keep dry. Picture by Basil Brambleby

As our picture shows, it’s not all getting cold and wet, struggling with ropes in a force 8. Cambria is now back in Faversham and being snugged down ready for the winter. This post is a call to arms for any Volunteers who have time over the various weekends to come and help out including doing this simple cleaning, tidying and stowing, in this case, the bedding into dry black bin liners to keep them from the damp through the cold months. The rigging has all been lowered after the sails were unfurled on a sunny day to let them all dry, so that the working sails could all be ‘unbent’ from the spars. The gear will then be raised again less the sails and will stay up for the winter, the lowering also having given us a chance to check the blocks and fittings which are normally 70+ feet above the decks. Skipper Ian Ruffles has been on hand to manage these operations.

If you would like to volunteer for any of these duties – cleaning, snugging, painting etc please either come on down to Standard Quay in Faversham, or email us on CambriaTrustSecretary@live.co.uk

Webbing; Picture by Matt Care

It’s that time of year again. Now that the barge is back in Faversham for the winter we have a need again for pairs of hands to do a bit of painting. Please if you have an hour or so free on any weekends through the winter, join our happy crew and come down to help get the barge ready for the next season. You can contact us via the email address (CambriaTrustSecretary@live.co.uk) or, if you’re in the area, come down to Standard Quay and hail somebody aboard (“Oy! Cambria!” generally works!). There’s generally a small group of happy chatty folk at it and some breaks for tea and cake. This can be ruffty-tuffty painting, outdoors in the cold wind, or it can be more like house decorating down below decks gliding a nice coat of gloss onto a galley wall. For a week or so we will also be in the dry dock so there will be a chance of some barnacle scraping and anti-foul slapping down below on the flat bottom, if you’re feeling more extreme, but nobody will insist you do anything you are not comfortable with. We can also cope with sessions outside of the weekend under some circumstances. Give it a go! The Cambria thrives on Volunteer help and you would know that you had been there and done that!

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Call to Arms

Painting Volunteers Needed