The Skippers Blog
29/08/2025
In August 2025 Sea-Change delivered two weeks of Youth Sailing Scheme voyages with young people returning to us. The changeover was at Pin Mill on the River Orwell and meant the second week started with… Read More
30/06/2025
Certificate (6390001A): Sea-Change Sailing Trust 2024 & 2025 Yacht Carbon Offset is delighted to offer Seachange Sailing Trust, free of charge, the carbon offset of S.V. Blue Mermaid’s estimated fuel consumption for 2024 & 2025. Read More
13/06/2025
Birthday Honours 2025 We are delighted and pleased to report that our Executive Officer and Bargemaster Richard has been awarded the MBE in today’s Birthday Honours List. The citation reads: Richard Donald Titchener. Chief Executive… Read More
05/05/2025
Diggory Rose Thames sailing barges require a specific and esoteric skill set to get the very best of them. Evolved over 150 years of commercial and geographical pressure, Blue Mermaid is the newest barge to… Read More
04/04/2025
Diggory Rose And so the season is well and truly underway. Our first voyage, a shakedown really, brought the best out of one of our young sailors, sailing by himself with our permanent crew certainly… Read More
21/03/2025
Insurance Grant Thanks to the trustees of the Tudwick Foundation for their generous grant towards our annual insurance. The Tudwick Foundation is a grant-giving body founded in 2019 by members of… Read More
24/02/2025
Evaluation film of Wind, Tide & Oar tour – just-in-time delivery eleven times As part of evaluation for the National Lottery Heritage Fund, who kindly funded the tour, we made this short film with the… Read More
24/09/2024
Sailors with disabilities from the RYA Sailability group ‘The Woolverstone Project’ have enjoyed an exciting trip on our Thames sailing barge Blue Mermaid this September. Joining the barge in her home port on the River… Read More
31/07/2024
Blue Mermaid is back on her home mooring after a very busy start to the year. She visited 11 ports between Lowestoft and Ramsgate to a timetable on her ‘Skipper’s of the Future?’ tour, supported… Read More
16/04/2024
Ed Gransden asked if we would like to take some wood belonging to Ardwina from Kevin Finch’s yard at Fullbridge to Lower Halstow where it will be used on her. We said yes and asked… Read More
