Name Dorothy

DOROTHY, CK159, built in 1899, has been at West Mersea since 1997 when Paul Harding, MD of colchesteroysterfishery.com, and Rob Lee acquired her from her previous owner in Burnham-on-Crouch. She’s 37ft LOD, and is a small smack, built to dredge the creeks, though there is a story that in the early 1900s, she went around the south-west and up to west Scotland to go dredging. She was built in the Aldous yard at Brightlingsea, generally regarded as the pre-eminent builders on the Colne and Blackwater for Mr Cutts-Avis of West Mersea. More recently Paul Harding's share has been purchased by Gareth Honeyford who now sails with Rob although DOROTHY is still moored at the Oyster Fishery.