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All systems go
A couple of guests have contacted us to check that the Round Britain Voyage is still on. We are happy to confirm that despite the...
Mar 20, 20221 min read
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Business Declares
We are excited to announce that Snark Ltd has joined Business Declares, the diverse group of businesses that have committing to...
Mar 17, 20221 min read
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Cobles (with one b)
The most iconic vessel still sailing the north east coast of England is undisputedly the coble. These evolved from the Vikings longships...
Mar 6, 20221 min read
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Storms and teacups
The weather is finally settling down after the terrible triplets Dudley, Eunice and Franklin have been battering us for the last week. At...
Feb 24, 20222 min read
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Whitby connections
Weather gods willing, Snark will arrive in Whitby on 6 July 2022 at the end of the 4th leg of our Round Britain Jubilee Cruise. We will...
Feb 17, 20222 min read
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I must go down to the sea again,
We live in troubled times; the climate crisis, mass extinctions, political instability, eroded freedoms, traumatic life events, are all...
Feb 9, 20222 min read
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Drifters, wherries and smacks; keels, sloops and the old Billy Boy.
On our cruise around the British coast we have now left the Thames and are heading up the east coast of England through the muddy waters...
Feb 4, 20223 min read
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Stumpies, Boomies and Mulies, Bawleys, Dobles and Smacks.
If you were to sail down the Thames on the Clacton-on-Sea paddle steamer in 1900 you would be welcomed by a diverse and picturesque...
Jan 29, 20224 min read
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Just because you can doesn't mean you should....
Governments around the world are starting to lift travel restrictions along with testing and quarantine requirements. This is being...
Jan 26, 20222 min read
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the power of the wind
For millennia mankind has found ways to harness the wind to help move goods and people around the waters of the world. There are lots of...
Jan 6, 20222 min read
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The Thames Match
We have discovered that the second leg of our tour is passing through Gravesend just one day before the running of the 90th Thames Match....
Jan 3, 20221 min read
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Sailing Around Britain in 2022
There are so many reasons to join us for one or more legs of our summer 2022 cruise Around Britain it’s hard to single one out · ...
Dec 26, 20211 min read
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mud and meridian lines
When we bought Snark's bare hull in Essex we had the four sections transported by land over the Thames to Turks Shipyard, which occupies...
Dec 23, 20212 min read
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Dec 20, 20210 min read
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Book now to get your 20/20 early bird discounts - only 4 days left.
The 20/20 discount for our 2022 summer season end on 20 December 2021. Check out cruise options and details on www.snark.limited.
Dec 16, 20211 min read
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Book now to get your 20% discount
If your dithering on whether to book now or wait until later we would like to remind you that our 20/20 early booking offer ends in...
Dec 6, 20211 min read
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Ethical Dilemmas
We recently reviewed our position on a whole swath of decisions which we have taken consciously and sub-consciously as we have been...
Dec 4, 20216 min read
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20% early bird discount ending soon
The 20/20 discounts on our fantastic Round Britain cruises will end on 20 December 2021 Don't miss out on this fantastic offer, book now...
Nov 26, 20211 min read
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bluebirds and snowstorms
Leg 2 White Cliffs Sometimes there is little to separate nostalgia and cultural heritage except intent. There’ll be bluebirds over The...
Nov 15, 20213 min read
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Chasing the Armada
Sailing Around the British Coast 1 The English Channel. How it started (perhaps) Under Henry VIII, the English had generally pissed off...
Nov 10, 20213 min read
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on the nature of nationhood
We are going to sail Snark around Britain next summer. I have sailed sections of our route before, on state-of-the-art racing yachts; on...
Oct 22, 20213 min read
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Snark's Big Adventure
Barging around the four nations After two years of stop-start operations and general frustration, we have decided we need to do something...
Sep 20, 20211 min read
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A new spreet is born...
At the end of June we found a crack in our spreet, the big diagonal spar that supports the main sail peak and the top sail clew. A new...
Sep 18, 20211 min read
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a few thoughts on the climate emergency
Following publication of the IPCC report yesterday there can be little doubt that the climate is changing. The extreme weather events we...
Aug 10, 20213 min read
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