Winnie - Falmouth Working Boat
by Terri Waters
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Winnie - Falmouth Working Boat
Artist
Terri Waters
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Photograph
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A digitally enhanced photograph of Winnie, a Falmouth Working Boat, racing during Falmouth Oyster Festival 2018.
Falmouth Oyster Festival, one of Cornwall’s biggest and most well-loved specialist food festivals, celebrates the diversity of Cornish seafood, the native Fal Oyster and the start of the oyster dredging season with 4 days of feasting, live music, craft stalls and cooking demonstrations
Winnie was built in Brabyn’s boatyard in Calenick Creek in 1898 of pitch pine on oak, making her strong, heavy and long lasting. After many years working, dredging and trawling, she was sold to S J Keates for racing, who sold her on to Falmouth hotelier Arthur Williams and Geoff Martin in 1988.
In 1977 when the Queen visited Falmouth, Victory, an even older working boat, with Prince Edward on board, challenged Winnie to an impromptu race for a £1 from Black Rock to Prince of Wales Pier, and Winnie came a close, well deserved second.
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March 13th, 2021
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