Brightlingsea Harbour Commissioners announce dredging and saltmarsh creation programme to improve channel depths and to restore vital intertidal marshes
Essex
Erwarton Ness, River Stour, Suffolk
First-time visitors to the East Coast would do well to begin with the Orwell and Stour rivers. Whether you are approaching from the South Coast or from Holland, Harwich Harbour…
The Pyefleet, River Colne
Mention the River Colne, in Essex, and two names will pop up: Brightlingsea and the Pyefleet. The entrance to Brightlingsea Creek and the port of Brightlingsea (where there are shops…
Bob Roberts: Coasting Bargemaster
More and bigger ships were using the river, and once or twice I spent my spare hours walking the banks of the lower reaches, watching the interminable stream of traffic…
A sailor’s guide to whales and dolphins
Spotting wild whales and dolphins while sailing is a joy, says marine conservationist Anna Moscrop
Dick Durham – podcast Summer 2015
There is a cartoon drawn by Mike Peyton that sticks in my mind. Two boats are sailing abeam from an anchorage in light conditions. The helmsman of the one nearest…
Scouts sail River Colne aboard ‘Pioneer’
On Saturday 20th June the youngsters set off down the River Colne in Essex aboard Pioneer. OGA member, Judy Harrison, was skipper for the day and started by showing the…
Dick Durham podcast – July 2015
“Bittles was no sailor, but he knew a good idea when he saw one” Exactly 90 years ago this month, Yachting Monthly conceived an offspring, Yacht Sales & Charters. The…
The Essex coast is the subject of the first in a new series of ‘Rough Guides’
Dick Durham podcast - December 2014
Marshland marina for sale
Yours for £2 million