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The Victoria 30 is a small boat with big ambitions: a pocket cruiser that’s fun to sail and pretty to boot. Rachael Sprot took her out on the water ....
London to Stockholm on an 87ft houseboat: An extract from Sailing Barge Venta 0shares A flat-bottomed Thames barge is hardly built for seagoing - yet this crew sailed the 87ft Venta to Sweden and back View from the sprit Back in the 1960s when the last Thames sailing barges were coming out of trading, a few were taken by bold individuals as yachts or houseboats. The best of them kept the rigs exactly as they had been. Some resisted the temptation to fit engines. One such was the 87ft, 70-ton Venta, owned by Jocelyn Lukins, who bought her in 1959 for £600. Five years later, under the command of former barge skipper John Fairbrother, she and one or two friends sailed her to Stockholm and, ultimately, home again. ....