Maritime & Other Experiences - 2023 updates in process
Maritime & Other Experiences
We will have a whole host of maritime talks and various experiences available, including:
- Tall ship “TS Pelican”
- Maritime Figurehead Wood Carver
- Wooden Boat Builder
- Traditional lobster pot weaving
- Knot Tyers
- Rope Making machine
- Seine boat fishing talks
- Sailing weather talks
- Shores of South Devon talk
- Lighthouse talk
- Glass Marine Creature Display
- Naval Field Gun Run Set
- Morris Dancing
- Shanty Talk & Singing
- Children’s Book Reading
- Taiko Drummers
Weather permitting, there will also be Pilot Gig Rowing “taster” sessions over the weekend.
Crab / Lobster pot making (Heritage craft)
David French
This is a family tradition with Dave carrying on from his Grandfather Walter Mears, and his sons Geoffrey and Gerald Mears.
Knotting
The International Guild of Knot Tyers
Gordon Teenan
Do you know your Prusik from your bowline?
Rope Making Machine
Mark Richmond
Watch rope being produced before your very eyes!
Pelican tall ship
Owned and sailed by “Seas Your Future”.
Moored in Teignmouth all over the festival weekend.
Morris Dancing
Beltane Morris Troupe
With dances emerging from the myths, legends and wilds of Dartmoor, Beltane prove that morris dancing can be older than tradition. With shadowed faces, tattered coats and black top hats, the musicians and dancers drum up the energy of the moor and share something ancient and mysterious with all who watch.
Fire Works Glass
Debby, Steve and Izach
Wondrous glass sea creatures
Naval Field Gun Run
Trinity School Combined Cadet Force
Members of the cadet force will be undertaking field gun runs on The Den In Teignmouth all through Saturday, using a girls gun set manufactured by Mike Rowland & Son, who will also be there to talk about their manufacture.
Patrick Bird - Kernow Boats
Finest Cornish Pilot Gigs and Four-Oared Gigs
Wooden boats run in our family’s blood and the tradition was instilled in us at a young age.
I still use some of my dad’s tools and I often wonder what he would be saying while I’m building gigs (he’d probably be telling me I’m doing it all wrong!). I’m passionate about getting every aspect of every gig as perfect as it can be.
I only accept the best standards and traditions in gig building and I purposefully include as much of the style associated with the Bird boats as possible – traditions that have been handed down through many generations.
I now supply Cornish Four-Oared Gigs in semi-kit form, for use at boatbuilding schools and for community build projects
Wind effect on Sailing Ships
Penny Tranter – Met Office
Penny left the BBC Weather Centre in January 2008 to become the Meteorology Training Manager at the Met Office College in Exeter, where she worked until 2011. While in the role, she oversaw an expansion of the College, leading to an increase in both student numbers and weather and climate change training,
Penny is now a Met Office Advisor working with emergency responders and planners, specialising in severe weather. She is based in SW England, and remembers vividly the severe winter of 2013/14, when she worked closely with the emergency community involved in the response and recovery of the Somerset Levels flooding.
Sailing is a lifelong hobby, and during London 2012 she was able to combine this passion with her weather forecasting skills. Penny was a member of the successful Met Office forecasting team for the sailing events in Weymouth for the Olympics and Paralympics. Since then, Penny has presented the weather brief for the 2015 and 2017 Fastnet Races to the competing yachtsmen and yachtswomen taking part in this iconic sailing challenge, and also the Round the Island Race weather brief in 2022.
Dick Stephens
Harmonise with Henry singing workshop
Expect the unexpected! This workshop was incredibly popular at the last festival and we are delighted that we have been able to tempt Dick back to run it again. Expect a singing workshop with a difference, but also expect to learn a lot.
Dick has worked in the past to help craft the beautiful harmonies of the female shanty group “Figurehead”
Ship's Figurehead Carving
Andy Peters
See some simply wondrous examples and talk to a man with 30+ years of carving them. The most recent being the construction of a replica figure head for the Cutty Sark!
Seining Along Chesil
Sarah Acton
Her book of recordings, voices and remembering tells the collective story of seine-net fishing off the Dorset coast, a culture and community that thrived for hundreds of years as the seasonal runs of mackerel swam along Chesil Beach between May and October.
Seine Boat Fishing on the Teign
Tim Briddlestone
Want to find out a little about Salmon Fishing on the Teign?
Time was when the autumn salmon run was an integral part of the Teign Waterman’s lifestyle but today but only a few licences exist.
Come and chat on the quay over the Teign Maritime & Shanty Festival weekend, to one of the remaining Teign salmon fisherman Tim Briddlestone
Shores of South Devon
Mike Puleston
The Shores of South Devon was founded in January 2020 as a voluntary association that focusses on the marine life of the rocky shores and beaches along the coast of south Devon. We hold monthly meetings where expert speakers will talk on a relevant topic, and field trips (surveys and safaris) to our local shores.
Lighthouses of Cornwall and Devon
The Association of Lighthouse Keepers
Ken Trethewey
The tradition of showing lights for the benefit of mariners is much older than many people realise, especially in the far southwest of England which has always been closely associated with the sea. In this talk we follow the links from the past through to the recent history of Cornwall and Devon and its unique and fascinating story at the cutting edge of lighthouse technology. The author uses his lifetime’s experience of these lighthouses to present his own viewpoint of this beautiful topic.
Pirate Adventures for Children
Pirate themed games
Marvellous Adventures
The tradition of showing lights for the benefit of mariners is much older than many people realise, especially in the far southwest of England which has always been closely associated with the sea. In this talk we follow the links from the past through to the recent history of Cornwall and Devon and its unique and fascinating story at the cutting edge of lighthouse technology. The author uses his lifetime’s experience of these lighthouses to present his own viewpoint of this beautiful topic.