At the end of 2019 Alan Thorne proposed that we become involved with a rather more ambitious programme to build a St Ayles Skiff, a twenty two foot coastal rowing skiff, as a community boat building project in the Purifier.
We enthusiastically endorsed this idea and have given substantial financial support to the Cinque Ports Rowing CIC, that Alan has formed with Jude Sach, to deliver the first of these skiffs, named “Avocet”, to be launched on Faversham Creek on the 29th May 2021.
So we now have a fleet of six “Julies” (designed by Gavin Atkin), we share Avocet (a St Ayles skiff) with Cinque Ports Rowing and we also share one fifteen foot “Joansa” skiff (designed by John Welsford) with Alan Thorne’s The Purifier Yacht & Dinghy Company.
History of Faversham Creek by Arthur Percival – Part 10 A look at the history of the Creekside. In this series of features on the Creek let’s now start a stroll along its banks to see how its town reach...
History of Faversham Creek by Arthur Percival – Part 9 We have seen how the Creek’s viability as a commercial waterway was in jeopardy after the opening of Whitstable Harbour in 1832 and how it was successfully revived at the...
History of Faversham Creek by Arthur Percival – Part 8 In Part 7, we recorded how in 1878 the £1,500 cost of the new (present) Creek bridge was shared equally between the Faversham Navigation Commission, the Faversham Pavement Commission (a...
History of Faversham Creek by Arthur Percival – Part 7 By the 18th century there was a bridge at the head of the Creek, by the north end of Stonebridge Pond, linking West Street via Flood Lane with Brent Hill....
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