£80K grant for Lowestoft’s sailing trawler Excelsior

2021-05-17T19:01:57+01:00May 14th, 2021|News|

Excelsior Trust, based in Lowestoft has received a grant of £80,000 from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help the organisation recover and reopen. The vessel Excelsior, has reached its centenary this year and is a familiar and much loved sight off the east coast.  Maintained as a charitable trust for the past [...]

A Zulu?

2015-12-15T15:56:11+00:00December 15th, 2015|News|

What this place needs is a proper Zulu - the pinnacle of the Scottish lugger design at the end of the 19th century. Plumb stem and with a radically raked stern post - of 45 degrees, typically these deep sea trawlers and herring drifters would be 70ft long and sail out to the north Atlantic. [...]

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