Britain Afloat - on telly at 8:00 tonight

[Gitane]

A bit late in the day I know, but Britain Afloat is on tonight at 8:00, BBC2.

Tonight's episode is on Thames barges, so there might some East Coast scenery.

Gitane.

 

[alant]

A bit late in the day I know, but Britain Afloat is on tonight at 8:00, BBC2.

Tonight's episode is on Thames barges, so there might some East Coast scenery.

Gitane.

Saw some of it & was very good, is it on iplayer?

 

[Gitane]

Yep, just checked iplayer and it's on there.

I enjoyed this episode, lots of it was filmed in Maldon and also footage of a barge race on the Thames.

Gitane

 

[ex-Gladys]

Jim Lawrence is fun as well... I've heard him give a talk, and if you get a chance, it's well worth it... Much better commentary from the woman than the Griff Rhys-Jones thing

 

[Cantata]

I understand that this is a series, this first one was on Friday repeated Saturday, but can see no mention of a second one in next week's schedules?

 

[Hydrozoan]

I understand that this is a series, this first one was on Friday repeated Saturday, but can see no mention of a second one in next weeks' schedules?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b096s2s4/episodes/guide

Very enjoyable - will have to catch up on the previous ones, and look forward to the coracle!

 

[Cantata]

Ah, thanks, off downstairs to set the recorder.....

 

[Biggles Wader]

That was a bit of a seam opening crunch between those two barges in the race wasn't it?

 

[Gitane]

Ah, thanks, off downstairs to set the recorder.....

Sorry, the "tonight" was referring to Saturday night, i.e. yesterday.

Gitane

 

[Gitane]

That was a bit of a seam opening crunch between those two barges in the race wasn't it?

I think the crunch was between Reminder and another barge. I'll check if I can see any damage on Reminder next time she is in Maldon.

 

[Cantata]

I think the crunch was between Reminder and another barge. I'll check if I can see any damage on Reminder next time she is in Maldon.

Just another dent, I expect, her being a steel barge.

 

[Seashoreman]

That was a bit of a seam opening crunch between those two barges in the race wasn't it?

The way I perceived that crunch was as an 'enhanced, artistic licence' sound effect.
Certainly an interesting and entertaining programme for me, mixing the past and present with intelligent interviews
and good camera work.
Thanks for the tip-off, will try to follow series.

 

[Hydrozoan]

I think the crunch was between Reminder and another barge. I'll check if I can see any damage on Reminder next time she is in Maldon.

The other was the Edith May.

 

[alant]

A bit late in the day I know, but Britain Afloat is on tonight at 8:00, BBC2.

Tonight's episode is on Thames barges, so there might some East Coast scenery.

Gitane.

I skippered Kitty for a while in Southampton, great fun, particularly when parking in Ocean Village.

 

[PeterWright]

Hi Gitane,

Many thanks for starting this thread - that was a great 30 minutes. The crunch was Edith May's stem piling into Reminder's port quarter so, hopefully, damage was limited to paintwork and possibly a bit of a dent in Reminder's plating. Not really enough footage ahead of the bang to apportion blame - Edith May was definitely on port tack and Reminder just about on starboard, but it looked like Reminder had just tacked right under E M's stem.

I saw a similar collision just off SYH during a Pin Mil match around 1984 except it was two wooden barges and it was the starboard quarter that was struck, That's a bit different, because barges carry their barge boat in davits on the starboard quarter and, when racing, usually swing them outboard to be out of the way. In that case, the barge boat was reduced to matchwood, and the distress pyrotechnics, for some reason being carried aboard the barge boat, were set off. The barge which went in stem first was stopped so suddenly that one of her running basckstays failed and the topmast carried on, breaking at the maincap and dumping her staysail on the other barge - it took sometime to disentangle tem after the orange smoke cleared I dread to think what the bill came to, but it seems modern bargemen are no less competitive than their forebears.

Peter.

 

[davidej]

The Punt episode includes some East coast saltings and Mersea's own Johnny Welham - punt gun operator.