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Don’t forget Bridlington’s Coblefest this weekend – the 13-14th August!
The Harbour Heritage Museum will be the headquarters for the festival and the boats due to be there are: Grace, Two Brothers, Morning Harvest, Madelene Isabella, Imperialist, Free Spirit, Mavis, Granby, Christina, Three Brothers, Gratitude and Misnomer.
Meanwhile, here are a few pics of sailing cobles in action to whet your interest… What fine looking boats they are.
For an earlier post about this event, click here.
The William Fife-designed 1903 sailing yacht Moonbeam pictured during the Brest Maritime Festival a few years ago (Source: Wikimedia Commons, photograph by Ludovic Péron)
Historian, serial exhibition presenter and activist Kipperman Mike Smylie tells me he and Classic Sailor editor Dan Houston are organising an ‘English Village’ for the Brest Maritime Festival, which this year is being held from the 13th to the 19th June.
They’re looking for folks with something maritime to offer to take part – I’d guess boatbuilding skills, sailmaking and ropework, publishing and perhaps many more things I haven’t thought of could all be appropriate. It’s just possible I might make the trips and sing sea songs (like this)…
If you’d like to go and think you fit the bill, email me at gmatkin@gmail.com, and I’ll put you in touch.