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  • 'Friday' Green and Elise - CK299

    'Friday' Green and Elise - CK299

    Smack 'Elise' built 1885 and owned by James 'Friday' Green who would never do anything on a Friday
  • 2005 Regatta

    2005 Regatta

  • 2006 Regatta

    2006 Regatta

  • 2010 Regatta

    2010 Regatta

  • 2012 Regatta

    2012 Regatta

    Everything but the skipper's shirt!
  • 2013 Regatta

    2013 Regatta

  • About the sailing barge Wyvenhoe

    About the sailing barge Wyvenhoe

    Built in Wivenhoe in 1898. Still going today.
  • About the Smack Yacht "Vera" built in Wivenhoe in 1893

    About the Smack Yacht "Vera" built in Wivenhoe in 1893

    Built by Forrest & Sons of Wivenhoe. Researched by the late Bill Ellis
  • East Essex Sailing Match for a Silver Cup, Gaff Topsail, Suit of Colours, and a Brass Compass 1800

    East Essex Sailing Match for a Silver Cup, Gaff Topsail, Suit of Colours, and a Brass Compass 1800

    The Ipswich Journal, Saturday, 6 September 1800
  • Pageant of Sail, Wivenhoe, Essex

    Pageant of Sail, Wivenhoe, Essex

    Short film sponsored by the Wivenhoe Yacht Owners Association in 1968
  • Sea-change: Wivenhoe Remembered - Boats with Stories

    Sea-change: Wivenhoe Remembered - Boats with Stories

    Sailing Boats - Boats with stories
  • Sea-change: Wivenhoe Remembered - Sailing on the River Colne

    Sea-change: Wivenhoe Remembered - Sailing on the River Colne

    People's memories of the river
  • Smacks racing up the River Colne

    Smacks racing up the River Colne

  • The Renowned Yacht Pearl

    The Renowned Yacht Pearl

    She won many races for the Marquis of Anglesey
  • The schooner Jane wrecked with loss of 6 Wivenhoe men - April 1877

    The schooner Jane wrecked with loss of 6 Wivenhoe men - April 1877

    The story of how the schooner Jane was wrecked off Yarmouth in a violent storm
  • Waiting for the 2014 Regatta to Start

    Waiting for the 2014 Regatta to Start

    A view of Wivenhoe from the Fingringhoe side
Maritime
  • 'Friday' Green and Elise - CK299
  • A Wivenhoe "landmark" the Cap Pilar
  • About Thomas and John Harvey in the 1800s
  • About William Sanford b. 1749 -1830
  • Cox & King, Wivenhoe
  • Guy Harding's Boatyard in the 1980s
  • Mersea Museum
  • R.Y.S. Britannia
  • Rosabelle Stores
  • Swedish timber ships
  • The Boatbuilders of the 'Upstream' yard
  • The Cap Pilar
  • The Jessie Annandale
  • The Minesweeper 'Beveland' built at Wivenhoe in 1943
  • The Northseamen
  • The Racing Yacht "Genesta"
  • The Story of Cooks Shipyard
  • Wivenhoe as a port in the late 1500s
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  • Flying Boats
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  • Upstream Shipyards
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