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Open Days 16th & 17th Sept 2023

By | September 13th, 2023|HCM Front Page, Hermitage Community Moorings, Hermitage River Projects, HRP Front Page, News, Open Day|

This September we welcome the 3 vessels of The Cirdan Trust as part of their 40th anniversary. Queen Galadrial, (1937 Baltic Trader 32m x 6.4m x 2.4m draft) Faramir (1981 Bermudian Ketch 22m x  5.25m x 2.5m draft) Duet (1912 classic Yawl 20m x 3.4m x 2.2m draft) The Cirdan Trust was founded in 1983 to [...]

Open Day Weekend – 17th &18th June 2023

By | May 19th, 2023|Hermitage River Projects, Open Day|

Gates open 11am to 4pm on both Saturday and Sunday. There will be the usual pop-up cafe and a visiting historic vessel mooring up at the visitor berth for people to have a close up look at. After a considerable absence from Hermitage (last visit was in 2015 )  VIC96 is steaming (literally firing up [...]

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PRIZE DRAW – by the Floating Quilters of Hermitage, in aid of Ukrainian refugees

By | March 16th, 2023|HCM Front Page, Hermitage River Projects, HRP Front Page, News|

A energetic group of people from Hermitage Moorings - "The Floating Quilters" - have created a beautiful patchwork quilt that is out there to be won via Prize Draw. See the following link to find information on getting hold of prize draw tickets Floating Quilters of Hermitage Prize Draw - a Community crowdfunding project in [...]

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Open Day Weekend – March 18th & 19th 2023

By | March 15th, 2023|Hermitage River Projects, HRP Front Page, Open Day|

Touchstone returns to Hermitage, fresh from drydock. Gates open 11am to 4pm on both Saturday and Sunday Motor tug Touchstone will be coming and will to be open to visitors, there will be a pop-up cafe in the pier house and of course the resident live-aboard boats to view close up, mainly Dutch and English river barges, with one [...]

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Open Day Weekend – 17th &18th Sept 2022

By | September 1st, 2022|Hermitage River Projects, HRP Front Page, Open Day|

Hermitage welcomes the historic vessel Havengore for the September open days weekend, in the year of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. It will be open to visitors during the normal open day hours of 11am to 4pm. Havengore was specially commissioned by the Port of London Authority in 1954 to act both as its flagship and principal [...]

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Open Day Weekend – 18th &19th June 2022

By | May 31st, 2022|Hermitage River Projects, HRP Front Page, Open Day|

After more than three years tug Touchstone returns to Hermitage Gates open 11am to 4pm on both Saturday and Sunday Motor tug Touchstone will be arriving from Chatham Historic Dockyard to be open to visitors, there will be a pop-up cafe in the pier house and of course the resident live-aboard boats to view close up, mainly Dutch and [...]

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Hermitage vessel “Stormvogel” at Escale à Sete

By | April 21st, 2022|Miscellaneous|

Fêtes maritimes internationales en Méditerranée The International Maritime Festival in Sete, on the south coast of France, welcomed a Hermitage vessel to participate in the Dutch class of vessels in the show. Stormvogel set off to France last year across the English Channel to join the canals of France for an extended period of [...]

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Open Day Weekend – 26th & 27th March 2022

By | March 8th, 2022|Hermitage River Projects, HRP Front Page, Open Day|

The first open weekend of 2022 has sailing barge "Will" here, fresh from dry dock, winter repairs and maintenance. The vessel is available for visitors to look at close up, as well as tour round the deck (with care). She is a working charter barge, taking groups of people on private charters now, rather than [...]

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Open Day Weekend – 4th & 5th Sept 2021

By | September 3rd, 2021|Hermitage River Projects, HRP Front Page, Open Day|

Two years on from our last Open Days, the 2021 ones coincide with Open House. No need to book, but there may be limitations on numbers and the pop-up cafe that is usually in place in the pier house will be operating but in a more distanced mode. The pier house is of course well [...]

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The Cirdan Sailing Trust July 2021

By | September 2nd, 2021|Hermitage River Projects, HRP Front Page|

The Cirdan Trust vessel Faramir came to Hermitage at the end of July; they report below on the trip:  Cirdan, is a small charity that has been providing life changing experiences to the disadvantaged aboard its sailing fleet for nearly 40 years.  Obviously, the restrictions put in place with the pandemic put a halt to [...]

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