BEAUL > Mike Walker Pictures > Attention news > BEAUL > > Wendy Stowe beat off competition from 56 men to become harbourmaster at one of the few privately-owned estuaries in the world. > > Wendy, 42, is today in charge of all nautical activities at Beaulieu, 7,000 acre historic home of the Montague family as one of a tiny number of women harbourmasters. > > Only two other British women control similar patches on the River Crouch and at Oban and Wendy became the third when she succeeded long-serving Mike Nicholls last month. > > Her patch includes 110 marina berths, more than 300 moorings a
BEAUL > Mike Walker Pictures > Attention news > BEAUL > > Wendy Stowe beat off competition from 56 men to become harbourmaster at one of the few privately-owned estuaries in the world. > > Wendy, 42, is today in charge of all nautical activities at Beaulieu, 7,000 acre historic home of the Montague family as one of a tiny number of women harbourmasters. > > Only two other British women control similar patches on the River Crouch and at Oban and Wendy became the third when she succeeded long-serving Mike Nicholls last month. > > Her patch includes 110 marina berths, more than 300 moorings and a boat park with its own slipway. She has already discovered her new job is no backwater. > > It also includes the world-famous Buckler’s Hard, once a major shipyard for the Royal Naval fleet of George III fighting in the Napoleonic Wars and where Nelson’s favourite ship, Agamemnon was fashioned out of New Forest timber. > > Wendy Stowe beat off competition from 56 men to become harbourmaster at one of the few privately-owned estuaries in the world. > > Wendy, 42, is today in charge of all nautical activities at Beaulieu, 7,000 acre historic home of the Montague family as one of a tiny number of women harbourmasters. PIC MIKE WALKER 2016
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