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resort for yachting and boating folk. I hear 

 that at least one of our leading yacht clubs is 

 approaching the railway company on the subject 

 of better accommodation for pleasure craft in the 

 harbour, which has been exceedingly poor, if I 

 can believe friends who have put into that port 

 and regretted the experience. For sure, if their 

 custom was cultivated — and only the will is 

 needful to provide all desired — much use would 

 be made of the harbour, an extremely handy one 

 as regards its position for channel sailing. And 

 when anything is being done I do hope that safe 

 landing-places for those in small boats may be 

 provided. At present there is not any at all 

 fitting for the purpose, unless your craft is of 

 the dinghy order ; and at the only stairs which 

 can be so called, risk of accident in embarking or 

 disembarking is great, unless you have two or 

 three hands to manage a boat of any length. 

 Again, the town would benefit if the ferry at the 

 Harbour Station were managed properly, so that 

 visitors could easily cross from west to east, and 

 vice versa. According to local gossip, the exist- 

 ing ferry will shortly be reserved exclusively for 

 the railway company's staff. In that case, visitors 

 and others who go on the western side to look 

 at the fort and the cliffs over against the jetty 

 or mole, and are desirous of crossing to make 

 towards Seaford, will be compelled to walk the 

 best part of a mile to the bridge, and again as 

 far back to the beach on the eastern coast, so 

 realising the late Mr Richard Swiveller's un- 

 fortunate condition, being obliged to go a mile 

 and a half to reach over the way. Now that the 

 sea-wall from Ousemouth to Seaford is complete 

 — and a very fine marine promenade afforded, 



