Maritime fringe + Sea & Sail at Golowan

Golowan Maritime Fringe Penzance

Maritime fringe + Sea & Sail at the Golowan Festival

Maritime fringe + Sea & Sail at the Golowan Festival Penzance

Penzance Cornwall
June 20 /25 2006
An Annual celebration On Land & Sea

Fringe main page

Main festival programme

SV 'Courier' from Petrozavodsk

Golowan - The Ancient Feast of John (first chartered in 1363 ) - has always been focused on Penzance harbour and old records show that the Port's working fleet were major participants.

This tradition is maintained by the fringe - inviting sailing and other working vessels from all over the world to join in the festival. If you have such a boat we'd love to see you!

The intimate feel of Penzance Harbour is maintained throughout the Festival, crews can relax or join in with the main Golowan Festival as much as they choose.

In The Harbour 0ver the years

PILGRIM Brixham trawler built in 1895 and owned by Bill Wakeham.From 1895 to 1927 Pilgrim fished out of Brixham and the Faroes. She was sold to new owners in Sweden in 1912 and converted to a private yacht in 1961. In June1999 she was sailed back to Brixham for restoration and preservation by the Pilgrim Preservation Trust.
GAMRIE BAY owned by Phil Brooke-Little a 1959 larch on oak Scottish trawler that fished from Newlyn for over 20 years.

HAPPY RETURN the Mounts Bay Lugger Associations 1926 Porthleven built fishing vessel recently relaunched after a major refit

Feasible 1912 lowestoft steam drifter
Veryan falmouth working boat
Juno 31ft falmouth working boat
Hayley marie mevagissey tosher
Pet 1903 pilchard driver
St Piran Cornwall fisheries patrol vessel
Badger converted 29ft crabber
Seamark French built fishing vessel

On the quayside there will be various exhibits and displays including the 40+ Fishing Association, the National Coastwatch Institution “putting the eyes back on the coast”,the National Lobster Hatchery, the Duchy Fish Quota Company and a demonstration of the construction of traditional Newfoundland dories.

At the Model Boating Pool at Wherrytown on Sunday 28th June

A day of racing metre yachts and electric boats and displays of scratch built models
Round the poolside will be an exhibition of model boats from all over the west country organized by Penzance Model Boat Club. (phone 01736 369291)
Musicians & Performers just turn up unexpectedly and a performance occurs, but it is only on Sunday, Sea & Sail Day, that the Mock Mayor - 'Mayor of The Quay' - singers, musicians and performers claim the quay

Some of the boats that have visited during the past years

OCEAN PRIDE

Built H.N. Peake, Newlyn 1919. last Mounts Bay Lugger built in Newlyn, now refitted with new masts and standing lug rig.

"SV COURIER"
17th Century Replica of one of Peter the Great's Fleet that opened Russia's access to the Baltic & the founding of St Petersburg

Built in her Home Port Petrozavodsk Russia

"STS LORD NELSON"

Owned and operated by the Jubilee Trust
Fully eqipped to take disabled crew to sea

More info on their website www.jst.org.uk

STS KRUZENSHTERN
The Kruzenshtern. The last pure sailing Cargo ship ever built.

Originally on the grain & phosphate trades around Cape Horn. Europe to South America or Australia.

She is now a training ship run by The Baltic Marine Academy of Kaliningrad, Russia.