Name Guiding Star

Previous names

Outward Bound

Certificate no 2675

Status Registered

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Details

Function Fishing Vessel

Subfunction Drifter

Location Plymouth

Vessel type Looe Lugger

Current use Sailing

Available to hire Yes

Available for excursions Yes

Info required No

Web address https://guidingstar1907.com/

Construction

Builder Angear, J, Looe

Built in 1907

Hull material Wood

Rig Lug

Number of decks 1

Number of masts 2

Propulsion Motor

Number of engines 1

Primary engine type Diesel

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Length: Overall

51.84 feet (15.80 m)

Breadth: Beam

11.65 feet (3.55 m)

Depth

6.00 feet (1.83 m)

Air Draft

To be confirmed

Tonnage: Gross

13.00

History

GUIDING STAR was built as a sailing drifter by James Angear in Looe in 1907. She is of wood carvel construction and had no engine when built. Sold from fishing in 1936, she was rebuilt as a cruising yacht at Uphams Yard, Brixham in 1937.

Between 1960 and 1989 in the ownership of Brigadier Jack Glennie she cruised widely Northern European and Baltic Waters before a three-year restoration by her next owners, Barry Jobson and Jacquie Gillespie, who completed a circuit of the North Atlantic.

GUIDING STAR has attended all but one of the Cornish Lugger regattas at Looe over the last 25 years. She is one of only a handful of pre-World War One Looe sailing drifters still afloat.”

Key dates

1907
Built by J Angear of Looe
1936/1937
Sold from fishing and rebuilt as a cruising yacht at Uphams Yard, Brixham
1994/1995
Completed a North Atlantic circuit via Spain, Portugal, Canaries, Lesser Antilles, Bermuda and the Azores