We’ve missed seeing you

Yesterday should have been the Annual General Meeting of the Society for Sailing Barge Research, which would have been at Leigh-on- Sea.

For now we have had to postpone and we all go on in our present posts.   The Society is solvent and membership subscriptions have come in well despite all the difficulties.  Members will have received the recent excellent Spring issue of Mainsheet, which Charles must be complimented for putting together against all odds and Studio Six must be complimented for getting it out in the post.  Richard is at work on this year’s Topsail although I guess he may have problems in obtaining some of the pictures, etc, he needs.  Nevertheless, knowing Richard, he will overcome those problems.   Tim has been busy banking subscriptions  and keeping our accounts in order and John deals with queries from members, the public, TV companies and learned institutions.   We all work from home except Don, our Archivist.   These days he can do much of the cataloguing  from home, but anything else would involve a journey from Maldon to North Fambridge, impossible in the lockdown but perhaps allowable now.   He would certainly be alone at the Archive.   Visitors would not be possible.   It is so crammed with our over 35,000 items that no way could anyone else be two metres apart.

Between us we will continue to look after the Society, and we look forward to seeing everyone when conditions permit.

New Barge of the Month published today

The Barge of the Month for May is published today.   Click on the Barge of the Month page to see it.