Tall Ships
Quay Square
SHIVER ME TIMBERS! There’s going to be two Tall Ships docked at Quay Square - the Grayhound and Johanna Lucretia. Both are free to climb aboard and explore from 10am to 4pm on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 May.
Grayhound Tall Ship
Plymouth Pirates Weekend is the perfect opportunity to explore the Grayhound three-masted sailing-ship made famous in Warner Brothers’ 2015 film In the Heart of the Sea.
Based on a 1776 replica Customs Lugger, the Grayhound was built from 2010 using traditional boat building techniques.
For more information about the ship visit https://grayhoundshipping.com/
Johanna Lucretia Tall Ship
Take a trip onboard the tall ship, Johanna Lucretia, an oak wooden two masted topsail schooner built at the Rhoos Shipyard, Ghent in Belgium in 1945.
The ship measures 96 ft in length, her beam is 18 ft, her draught is 8 ft and she has a total sail area of 380 m2.
Plymouth Sound
Atyla Tall Ship
Also on the horizon you’ll see the Atyla Tall Ship It’s the only wooden ship of its kind that does adventure sailing trips internationally.
This unique vessel was made in the 1980s using traditional techniques (shipwrighting) with a design inspired by the sailing vessels of the 18th century. Today, it still belongs to the same family that built it.
For more information visit https://atyla.org/plymouth
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