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Photo taken from the foreshore close to Shellness hamlet.

The old vessel had been making to windward at the mouth of the Swale, against a stiff south-westerly breeze. Her skipper has brought her close inshore, on port tack, and she's now turning in a few feet of water, and her foresail crumples - for a moment - as she comes round head-to-wind.

'Lady Daphne' was competing in the Swale Barge Match. For a few hours the Swale and Whitstable Bay were teeming with the red-brown sails of old working craft - giving at least an inkling of the coastal scene as it must have been a century or two ago.