The Webbed Pilgrims Progress.

FLOTSAM:

Flotsam: goods lost in shipwreck and found floating. Sail Training, Victualling, Hygiene and Stuff like that may be compared to flotsam at times. But! Hey! This is a serious site

http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/clipper/2002/11/11/jersey_diary.shtml

In case anyone thought the day-to-day condition of KJ is a coincidence ................

" The day after race finish, the whole crew turned to and tackled the boat cleaning, and all the small jobs that needed doing... A lot of lessons have been learnt on the boat victualling front, and we hope to get a better balance of food, veg, fruit etc .... for instance, take only a few day's worth of choccies, as it will melt [in] warmer climates.

[Boat] is now clean again, and looks great.Tracey and Silvia have been 'mapping out' where all the food is stowed under the various floor boards.The sails have all been washed down, cleaned and checked for damage. "

RESOURCES AND USEFUL LINKS

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.sailing?hl=en You never know what will come up on uk.rec.sailing but it never ceases to surprise. It is a repository of all sorts of useful and useless information. Its strength is its on-board search facility.

http://www.brixhamsailingtrawlers.co.uk/index.htm

http://www.brixham.uk.com

http://www.catchline.co.uk concerning marketing

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP413.PDF 200 page Introduction to R/T Procedures

http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk/easytide/EasyTide/ predict your tides for the next seven days

"Kenya Jacaranda" has been setting New Horizons for London's Youth since 1951, 7500 of whom have sailed on her so far! And so far is May 2006

The Mayflower Sail Training Society,

a registered Charity,

operates the Kenya Jacaranda

to provide an opportunity for up to eighteen people of all ages

to crew a traditional two-masted sailing ship

under the command of fully qualified skippers.

A competent Core-Crew of six assisted by twelve 'supplementaries'

sail the ship in real conditions, replicating as closely as possible

the way ships were crewed and sailed for centuries.

contact bookings@msts.uk.net

See WWW.MSTS.UK.NET for details on how to join the crew

Another way of putting it

What drives me to support the Mayflower Sail Training Society is it's proven record of working for disadvantaged people years before such an idea became flavoursome. The Society was set up (in 1980) to preserve a priceless service to the young people of the Deptford, Bermondsey and Greenwich areas set up by our founders (Steve Stevens and Chris Harding) in 1951 by protecting the Kenya Jacaranda and her stated aims for posterity.

The service previously provided by the "Kenya Jacaranda" and then (in 1979) in danger of being buried under the development of Docklands, was a service of taking young people to sea from the very heart of London, from berths that read like a glossery of the Empire and addresses that reads like an A-Z of inner London.

For fifty years the "Kenya Jacaranda" has enabled a maritime sailing tradition to be preserved against all the odds in the River Thames, whether based in Surrey Docks, Deptford Creek, Limehouse Basin, Greenland Dock ............

.......... and (when she was no longer welcome in any of them) she was taken down-river by the Society til she fetched up at Tilbury. But to this day she still goes back to the Limehouse Reach and the Lower Pool for her sailors.

This tenacity has ensured that in August 2005 Newham Carers had their annual holiday on board the Kenya Jacaranda, just like in 2004. KJ has fifty years of not noticing a persons skin colour, creed or wealth. She does not care whether a sailor can walk, talk, hear or see. She has carried them all, and will continue to do so if she can only be allowed to stay afloat, safe and legal and able to bring another 8000 young people to sea in the NEXT fifty years.

Dedicated to the Best Brixham Trawler in England

Navigation:

FLOTSAM:

RESOURCES AND USEFUL LINKS

"Kenya Jacaranda" has been setting New Horizons for London's Youth since 1951, 7500 of whom have sailed on her so far! And so far is May 2006

Another way of putting it