Visitor berths open to all craft (max stay two weeks) Hermitage has two visitor berths for stays up to two weeks. Ideal if you are visiting London and need an overnight berth without the inconvenience and cost of locking into a dock, and providing a unique location in the heart of London. Visitor berths [...]
Pier House The Pier House is available for private hire. The Pier House space is approximately 10m x 4m, with glass doors dividing it into two, and with glass doors to the river front. There are folding tables and chairs allowing multiple arrangements for events. There is a sound system [...]
Having kicked off the season with a 4 day Easter trip with the Southend young carers, we welcomed aboard a group of young adult carers who travelled up from West Sussex to Maldon for a weekend’s sailing along the Blackwater Estuary at the end of May. It was a trip eagerly anticipated by the carers and it proved [...]
Hermitage River Projects (HRP) is a registered charity formed in 2007, and was created as an important partner of Hermitage Community Moorings (HCM). HCM is a co-operative, which owns and operates a mooring on the Thames at Hermitage Wharf, Wapping. The moorings provides berths for up to 20 vessels enabling a mixture of live-aboard, recreational [...]
Hermitage had two interesting historic vessels coming up the Thames to be here and open to visitors. The Thames sailing barge "Will" (built 1925, steel) and Tug "Touchstone" (built 1962). All the resident vessels were here as usual, with information panels explaining their histories. The cafe in the pier house proved popular as usual. Another [...]
Hermitage is excited to welcome Mike Webber back to the moorings to run two Mudlarking training courses. Saturday he’ll be taking guests down to the foreshore to look for hidden artifact from all periods of London’s history. Sunday you can then learn how to sort/identify your findings. More info/tickets available here Thames Sailing barge ‘Will’ [...]
We're excited to be part of Open House again this year. We'll be open to the public 10:00-16:00 both Saturday and Sunday so pop by and say hello. We'll have two visiting boats, dutch sailing barge Volharding and tug Touchstone. See our listing here.
Just got given a handful of new photos from June’s open day. Available on flickr, but this is my favourite. Don’t forget to join us at our next Open Day on September 20th/21st where Tug Touchstone will be joining us
Hermitage is excited to welcome Thames Sailing Barge Pudge to our next open day. A Dunkirk little ship Pudge is usually based in Maldon, but will be available for you to climb aboard and ask her crew anything from her history to what she's like to sail. On Sunday we're offering a Foreshore Training course [...]
Buildings all over London, usually closed to the public will be open throughout the weekend of 21st-22nd September as part of Open House. For the third year running, Hermitage Moorings is one of those. Highlights of this year will be our three visiting steam ships, and the chance to go on a river cruise! What's On: [...]
