Raybel Charters presents a captivating programme of films over the coming months … all chosen to spotlight our themes of water, trade, nature and sail.  🌊 Films will be supplemented by introductions, discussions and panel conversations.

Screenings take place below deck on a proper screen with the log burner to keep warm.

POPCORN and other refreshments available  

BOOK HERE or pay on the door. £5

⛵ Onboard the Raybel sailing barge at Lloyd’s Wharf, Sittingbourne (access behind KFC and the skate park).

Friday 30th Jan - RED SAILS

Red Sails explores through interviews and archive footage the influence of the Thames barge in the development of trade, and its contribution to the building of Victorian London. It also looks in detail at the craftsmen and their trades, which made the Thames barges so unique.

The screening will be supplemented with a short talk by Dr Nettleingham of Kent University, drawing on his research of how collective memory and mis-memory have shaped our understanding of what Thames barges were and have now become.

FOLOWED BY …. Q&A with Raybel director and new Chair of the Maritime Heritage Trust, Gareth Maeer, and an open discussion on how to secure and sustain those barges which still remain on the Thames and east coast.