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Details
Function
Fishing Vessel
Subfunction
Drifter
Location
Plymouth
Vessel type
Looe Lugger
Current use
Sailing
Available to hire
No
Available for excursions
No
Info required
No
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
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