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 Sailing to St. Peter's Dock

It must be 50 years or more since a barge berthed on St. Peter's Dock (and it may be the last!), but on 6th October 2009, SB Victor once more made her way up the New Cut at the top of the tide, to take part in a photo-shoot from Stoke Bridge by an internationally famous architectural photographer.  Steve Godwin and Wes invited Stuart Grimwade to join them and the crew to sail her back down the Cut and into the lock. 

The sequence, in real order, begins with the barge beginning her swing on arrival at the St Peter’s Dock wall. In light airs, we then sailed back down the Cut in style, and the sequence ends with her entry back into the Wet Dock with Mick Lungley furling the foresail. The Trust is very grateful to Steve Godwin and the crew for this effort, and the Trust looks forward to co-operating with Wharfside Regeneration to arrange further historic vessel visits back on the old Cranfields Mill quay at the head of the Dock.

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