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Something leaked…..Cornish port’s boatbuilding heritage to be celebrated at regatta weekend….
LOOE is poised to have an additional harbourside event next year – and it’s one in which businesses and residents are being urged to get involved.
Following on from the success of last May’s Cornish Lugger Association biennial reunion in the bay, the Looe-based organisers are now planning a ‘fallow years’ regatta in 2024 but this one will not be restricted to wooden-built craft.
Instead, working in collaboration with the Looe Harbour Commissioners and Looe Sailing Club, the lugger folk are launching a celebration of Looe’s centuries-old historic boatbuilding legacy with a ‘Made In Looe’ Regatta.
Many of the Cornish luggers still sailing today were built in the harbour in the late 1800s and early 1900s by the likes of Tom and Richard Pearce, Peter Ferris, James Angear and Abraham Pengelly.
