Boats alongside staging at Paglesham, unloading at the end of the our summer cruise, 1997
The boat in the foreground is the author's homemade sailing dinghy, ahead of it is the HSC Wayfarer 'Meander'
The black tarred wooden shed used to be Shuttlewood's boat building shed, Frank Shuttlewood being a master builder of fishing smacks and yachts. It is now a store and rather damp at high spring tide!
Another picture of Meander at Paglesham, taken at the return of our summer cruise 2000 and looking out into the river from near the black shed. The boatyard are rapidly modernising the facilities and there will soon be floating pontoons here.