Marvellous Maldon ..... Tradition has it that after the 1928 Thames Barge Match, Fred Horlock promised his rivals that he would give them a “reminder” of the speed of his barges. The following year 1929, Reminder was launched at Mistley and became Champion barge on the Thames and Medway. Mainly working on the rivers of Essex and Suffolk, Reminder finished her working life as a ballast barge.  In 1975 she was bought and converted back to sail. 

At the moment it’s sharing space with quite a few other boats ...