BRISTOL SAILING ASSOCIATION

Newsletter September 2023

Contacts:Kath Liddiard (Commodore)01443 227928

Jock Playle (Secretary)0117 973 8855

Becky Goddard (Treasurer) 01749 346818

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1. Future Trips

There are no future trips planned at present, but Ian may be asking for crew to help him sail his boat from the Exe to Sharpness when it is fully fitted out.

2. Recent trips

At the September meeting we had a report (below) from Ian Collins who skippered the Largs GSA boat in the west of Scotland and to N. Ireland. Jerzy also gave short report of sailing on a Jeanneau 44 from Ardfern in W. Scotland, through Corryvreckan (at slack water) to Mull, followed by a night sail to Mingulay, the most SW island of the Outer Hebrides. They returned to Ardfern via Colonsay, Islay, the Mull of Kintyre and Crinan.

We also have Julia Wallace’s final report of this year’s Scottish cruise on ‘Aremiti’, ‘Torridon to Craobh’ which is attached as a separate PDF file.

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Trip on Hebridean Flame, skippered by Ian Collins

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3.A note on ‘Sabrina 6’

Jock recently visited the National Waterways Museum in Gloucester and found that one of the exhibition and event spaces was a barge moored alongside called ‘Sabrina 5’. A short description gave the information that in 1944 the Ministry of War Transport ordered six dumb (i.e. no engines) barges to be built by Charles Hill in Bristol. They were built and named Sabrina 1 – 6 (Sabrina being the Roman goddess of the river Severn). They were used to carry goods imported into Avonmouth inland via the Gloucester and Sharpness canal and the river Severnup the country, towed by a tug as a convoy of barges, until the 1960s. We know what happened to Sabrina 6, and now Sabrina 5. Numbers 1 – 4 were presumably scrapped.

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