Sentence examples for sailing barge from inspiring English sources
My parents were fairly skint: we were two adults and five children living on a sailing barge in Kent.
Or you might board a 1920s Thames sailing barge and glide past the remotest corners of the Essex coastline for the weekend.
Alternatively you can take a birdwatching cruise from Maldon or Brightlingsea on a traditional Thames sailing barge (01621 857567, top-sail.co.uk, £45 for a day's cruise including food).
By Nate Lavey November 7, 2013 A few weeks after leaving Ferrisburgh, Vermont, on the Ceres, a homemade sailing barge, Erik Andrus and his small crew reached New York City, stopping at farmers' markets along the way.
By Rivka Galchen By Larissa MacFarquhar By Jia Tolentino By Malcolm Gladwell By David Remnick The Floating Farmers Market Erik Andruss and his crew stop at farmers' markets on their homemade sailing barge.
Early last month, the Ceres, a thirty-nine-and-a-half-foot, manifestly homemade, mainly plywood, twin-masted sailing barge, departed from Ferrisburgh, Vermont, on Lake Champlain, bearing fifteen tons of Vermont- and New York-grown foodstuffs (see above) — mostly non-perishable, the rest fall storage crops — bound for New York City.
Only a century ago, sailing barges, called scow schooners, worked as the pickups and semi trucks of the Bay Area, cruising inland as far as Sacramento.
Sadly these were designed to add stability like the movable keels on Dutch sailing barges and were not used to barge rival vehicles off the track in the manner of Steve McQueen in 1968's Bullitt.
A good guide will point out the hollows in the tidal reaches that were dug out in the 19th century when Medway mud was loaded into sailing barges by labourers called "muddies", taken to kilns and mixed with chalk to provide the London building boom with cement.
He initially constructed clinker-built sailing barges, capable of carrying up to 80 tons.
Vessels used on the river were Rye sailing barges, which were about 45 by in size, with a draught of 2.75 feet.
