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Sail on board Repertor
Join us for the Suffolk Rivers Cruise on Repertor 25-29 June 2012
See full details here
Repertor built in 1924, is of steel construction and has been handsomely converted and equipped below deck to provide an open plan galley, spacious saloon and lounge plus sleeping for 14. And all the luxuries you expect afloat in the 21st century.
We look forward to sailing together!
2011 Annual Dinner - Saturday 29th October
Held at the Civil Service Club, London. Captain John Fisher, presented his sailing experiences in modern-day square-rigged sailing ships, including the Jubilee Sailing Trust's barques STS Lord Nelson and STS Tenacious.
A full report can be downloaded here
SAILING on S B REPERTOR
Members sailed on board SB Repertor in the 2011 Thames Match.
Read a full report by Alan Rouse here
Thames Sailing Barge Repertor
To read about an earlier voyage by Mariners on S B Pudge click here
SAILING on T S ROYALIST
In September Members will sail on the TS Royalist, the square-rigged sail training brig of the Sea Cadets. Our voyage is to from Falmouth to Gosport with the Square Rigger Club.
The voyage schedule is as follows. Join Friday at 14.00 9th July in Falmouth. The voyage schedule will depend on weather but bring your passport. The voyage will end at Gosport at 16.00 on Monday 12th September. Voyage fee for three nights on board, including all meals is an economic £175 for MI Members.
Please book directly with the Square Rigger Club, contact Alan Burt, Charter Secretary email: alan@waterstongroves.com telephone 01620 826671; or fill in the booking form here.
Royalist at anchor in Braye Harbour, Alderney
In May 2008 26 members of Mariners International chartered the brig TS Royalist for a voyage to the Channel Islands.
To read more click here
MI Annual Dinner
The annual Mariners International Dinner for 2010 at the Civil Service Club, London, on 30th October
Jim Lawrence with Leslie Morrish
Sally Spencer reports our chairman finally managed to persuade Jim to come and speak at our Annual Dinner. Sally had sailed with Jim when Mariners chartered the Thames barge Repertor for a weekend and anticipated the treat in store from a skipper with a vast knowledge of Thames sailing barges, but also a great personality with a huge sense of humour. More than 50 members and friends gathered to listen.
Jim took his first job on board at the age of 16. In those days it was the barge skipper who employed his hands rather than the company who operated the barge, and Jim was given the first task of getting a new pennant to fly from the mast top. It was no easy feat and eventually Jim managed it but it gave the skipper a good insight as to how competent, imaginative and capable his new signing would be and whether he had the stomach for the heavy work that lay ahead.
See Windjammer 2010 No. 3 for a full report of Jim's presentation.
Today Jim runs a successful sail making, rigging and chandlery business based in Brightlingsea, Essex.
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