Thames Match Report 2019 The 88th Thames Sailing Barge Match was sailed on Saturday, 22 June. A fortnight previously the Blackwater Match had been called off due to atrocious conditions but our day dawned calm and sunny with only a…
Thames Sailing Barge Match 2018 – Timekeepers Report Thames Sailing Barge Match 2018 – Prizes Thames Match Report 2018 The long hot summer of 2018 will doubtless go down in folk memory for years to come. The 87th Thames Sailing…
Start from Mucking No. 3 buoy, Lower Hope Reach, River Thames to South West Barrow buoy, returning to the finish off Gravesend. Thames Match Report 2015 RESULTS: Coasting Class: 1st: LADY OF THE LEA 2nd: LADY DAPHNE (corrected time due…
The year 2013 saw the 150th anniversary of the Thames Sailing Barge Match and a record number of craft gathered to celebrate the occasion. It had been the intention of the late Match Secretary, Mark Boyle, that the original 1863…
Previous Year Results (2001-2012) can be found here. Top Level Summary (1995-2009): [1] This represents the number that arrived off the starting line and positioned themselves to await the starting gun. [2] The distance is to the nearest nautical mile…
Less than twelve hours after the opening of the London Olympic Games on Saturday, 28 July, ten sailing barges assembled in the Lower Hope for their own main event, the 82nd Thames Sailing Barge Match. An overcast and unseasonably cold…
There had been some rain in the night, but the day dawned on Saturday, 23 July, fresh with a reasonable north-west wind. The first class away was the Coasters at 09.00. Cambria was first across, 49 seconds after the gun,…
