Fog will be our friend this season! In her 126th year, it’s ironic that Pilgrim faces perhaps one of the most difficult periods in her history. Like many businesses, the small band of Trustees of the Pilgrim Foundation had thought that 2020 would be the biggest challenge our small charity has had to face so
2020 has been quite a year, as you can imagine. We set off with high hopes as it was Pilgrim’s 125th Anniversary. There was to be festivals galore and the Mayflower 400 commemorations. That all fell apart quite quickly as we went into lockdown and the focus for our charitable Foundation was to ensure our
Pilgrim gains grant from Government’s £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund. The Pilgrim Heritage Sailing Foundation is one of 445 heritage organisations across the country set to receive a lifesaving financial boost from the government thanks to the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help them through the coronavirus pandemic. This award will enable us to undertake
Pilgrim is back after lockdown with Covid Secure day sailings through the rest of August and September. If you want to sail with us check out the schedule here. There’s been a lot of preparation done by our skipper and volunteers over recent weeks. One of the final tasks was to cast Horatio adrift and
To Sail or not to Sail? – That is the question for Pilgrim. Not an easy decision! We now have the green light to resume sailing as long as its safe and within COVID Secure guidelines. Everyone is reeling from the recent events and as we emerge into a strange new “normal” we need to
Pilgrim’s 125th Anniversary – 4th June 2020 In these challenging times, we won’t be having a party today celebrating the 125th anniversary of Pilgrim’s launch. It was on 4th June 1895 that our beloved Pilgrim was slipped into Brixham Harbour at Upham’s Yard. Our Members, volunteers and all our supporters should take a moment though
While many of you have time on your hands we’d like to receive entries for our 125th Anniversary Pilgrim Poetry Competition. It’s simple – just write a little ditty about Pilgrim and post it on one of our social media feeds or you can email it to info@pilgrimofbrixham.org.uk We will post any email entries on
Pilgrim has just completed her winter refit programme and we have invested more than £10,000 this winter to make her ready for our 125th anniversary year. She’s in really good shape and now suddenly we have had to face the global threat of the Coronavirus Pandemic. It is therefore with heavy hearts that we must
What we believe to be Pilgrim’s first lift in her lifetime happened at Tom’s Yard in Polruan in Cornwall this week. Conventional practice is to slip or beach Pilgrim when she needs maintenance below the waterline. Neither of those approaches are ideal for work to be done, especially if she is beached, as the tide
There’s no doubting it’s the festive season in Dartmouth. Pilgrim is lit up with 475 feet of Christmas cheer! Despite our sails being away for maintenance we’ve managed to mimic the sails to create a truly festive glow on the waterfront. Pilgrim has joined in the Candelit Dartmouth Festival which also marks the start of