Not a model, but I'm sure members will be interested to learn that another new Thames Sailing Barge, called 'Snark', has been built in the West Country. She has a steel hull and was built to the same plans as some built by Fays of Southampton for Goldsmiths of Grays. If I remember correctly they were quite big barges and could carry about 160 tons of cargo. She is rigged as a mulie, that is, with a large gaff mizzen instead of a small sprit mizzen and sprouts a long bowsprit carrying in all the pictures I have seen, a foresail, jib and jib topsail. She is to be used for sailing holidays and as a yoga retreat. www.snark.limited will give you more details.

cheers, Nerys