Thames Barge: "Reminder"

And with a wind farm in the background. An early start. We were off just after 0600. I took this photo at 1000. A beautiful day. 

Reminder was built in 1929.  Tradition has it that after the 1928 Thames Barge Match, Fred Horlock promised his victorious rivals that he would give them a "reminder" of the speed of his barges. The following year, 1929, Reminder was launched at Mistley and fulfilled his expectations, becoming Champion barge on the Thames and Medway. Reminder was one of the last barges built. Mainly working on the rivers of Essex and Suffolk, she finished her working life as a ballast barge