Scale: 1:24. The ‘Will Everard’ (1925) was a mule-rigged steel sailing barge built by Fellowes, Great Yarmouth, for F. T. Everard & Sons, of Greenhithe, Kent. She was one of four identical barges built in 1925 and 1926, all named after partners in the family business. They were large craft, almost 100 feet in length, with a crew of three, and could carry 5600 square feet of canvas. They were built when Everard’s secured the contract to supply coal to the Margate Gas Works. ‘Will Everard’ undertook much of this work transporting gas coal down the east coast from Keadby, on the Humber, to Margate. She traded under sail until 1950, when an engine was fitted.

She was sold in 1966 for £750 on the condition that she did not retain the same name, so the new owner called her ‘Will’. She was then sold again for use as a private yacht before passing into the ownership of the P&O Group who used her for corporate hospitality. In 2004, ‘Will’ was purchased by Topsail Events and can still be chartered for special events. The model shows the barge very much as a working boat with set sails and lee boards and painted in Everard’s characteristic colours: grey hull, pink bottom, black rails and gold sheer line.