Sailing forward to the past
The last time I stood on Pin Mill hard looking up at the rigging of the Thames sailing barge Cambria, was in the summer of 1969 when I arrived there to be interviewed by her skipper, Bob Roberts, for the job as mate.
A curmudgeonly old shipwright, Reuben Webb, was fitting a new piece of covering board to the 91ft mule-rigged barge and although the tide was
