143 year old Barnabas returns to Newlyn after 1,400 mile voyage. Crew members Rob McDowell and Dave Need tell Julie all about it.
Photo: Chris Yacoubian
… to add to the fleet was
the 1881-built Cornish lugger
Barnabas SS 634, up in this neck
of the woods for new masts
at the Johnston and Loftus
boatyard at Corry. With a few
more local luggers, there was an
impressive fleet going out to sail
each day.
… Vicki has also joined forces with the Cornish Maritime Trust to help them raise funds so they can continue to preserve and maintain traditional boats and the skills to build and sail them too.
The 143 year old working boat ‘Barnabas’, sailed into Newlyn Harbour on Saturday, marking the end of her two-month heritage mission to all four Celtic lands
… Vicki has also joined forces with the Cornish Maritime Trust to help them raise funds so they can continue to preserve and maintain traditional boats and the skills to build and sail them too.
BBC Radio Cornwall’s Julie Skeltenbery, a former lugger owner herself, discusses the historic St Ives lugger Barnabas which has just completed an epic voyage from Cornwall to Scotland
… Vicki has also joined forces with the Cornish Maritime Trust to help them raise funds so they can continue to preserve and maintain traditional boats and the skills to build and sail them too.
Later this month Ullapool is hosting Lugger Fest ’24. It’s the village’s inaugural maritime festival of traditional boats and will feature talks, food, music plus the chance to get aboard the Luggers- small fishing boats that use a particular kind of sail. Dan Holland went along to find out more about what will be going on and explore one the luggers.
A 143-YEAR-OLD ST IVES
double-ended dipping
lugger has set sail from
Newlyn on a 1,000-mile
‘living heritage’ journey.
The only surviving vessel of
its type in the world, Barnabas
departed Cornwall on 19 April on
a six-week round trip to Ullapool
as part of a journey incorporating
education, fundraising and
preservation in the form of a new
set of masts
“To learn the skill of sailing a lugger feels like a huge privilege, I’m especially looking forward to exploring some of the islands and hopefully pinning down how to do some knots.” Olivia Byass Smithies, 24
143 year old Barnabas returns to Newlyn after 1,400 mile voyage. Crew members Rob McDowell and Dave Need tell Julie all about it.
Photo: Chris Yacoubian
… to add to the fleet was
the 1881-built Cornish lugger
Barnabas SS 634, up in this neck
of the woods for new masts
at the Johnston and Loftus
boatyard at Corry. With a few
more local luggers, there was an
impressive fleet going out to sail
each day.
… Vicki has also joined forces with the Cornish Maritime Trust to help them raise funds so they can continue to preserve and maintain traditional boats and the skills to build and sail them too.
The 143 year old working boat ‘Barnabas’, sailed into Newlyn Harbour on Saturday, marking the end of her two-month heritage mission to all four Celtic lands
… Vicki has also joined forces with the Cornish Maritime Trust to help them raise funds so they can continue to preserve and maintain traditional boats and the skills to build and sail them too.
BBC Radio Cornwall’s Julie Skeltenbery, a former lugger owner herself, discusses the historic St Ives lugger Barnabas which has just completed an epic voyage from Cornwall to Scotland
… Vicki has also joined forces with the Cornish Maritime Trust to help them raise funds so they can continue to preserve and maintain traditional boats and the skills to build and sail them too.
Later this month Ullapool is hosting Lugger Fest ’24. It’s the village’s inaugural maritime festival of traditional boats and will feature talks, food, music plus the chance to get aboard the Luggers- small fishing boats that use a particular kind of sail. Dan Holland went along to find out more about what will be going on and explore one the luggers.
A 143-YEAR-OLD ST IVES
double-ended dipping
lugger has set sail from
Newlyn on a 1,000-mile
‘living heritage’ journey.
The only surviving vessel of
its type in the world, Barnabas
departed Cornwall on 19 April on
a six-week round trip to Ullapool
as part of a journey incorporating
education, fundraising and
preservation in the form of a new
set of masts
“To learn the skill of sailing a lugger feels like a huge privilege, I’m especially looking forward to exploring some of the islands and hopefully pinning down how to do some knots.” Olivia Byass Smithies, 24
