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Spirit of Mystery Heads To Australia from Newlyn

Andy Tyler — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:03:53 +0000

Taking advantage of the northerly breeze Pete Goss and his crew on Spirit of Mystery slipped away from Newlyn on Monday night en route to Australia.

Spirit is a replica of the original Mystery a 37ft Mounts Bay lugger, which left Newlyn on the 18 November 1854, bound for the Australian Gold Fields.

116 days later after a voyage of 11,800 miles the intrepid seven-man crew reached Melbourne.

Goss together with his brother Andy, son Eliot and brother in law Mark Maidment are following in the wake of these Cornish fishermen with the aim of highlighting their achievement and raising money for Goss’s charity Cornwall Playing for Success.

Cornwall Playing for Success is an out of school hour’s initiative aimed to involve youngsters in sport and adventure activities and the voyage will feature on the website www.petegoss.com/playing-for-success.php.

Besides the voyage itself the best feature about Mystery and her crew was that the idea originated in the Star Inn at Newlyn.

How many daft brave or foolish ideas originate over a few beers? It is nice to know that even 154 years ago men were still making rash decisions over a pint.

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Andy Tyler — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:38:37 +0000

Donâ€™t forget this weekend sees the St Mawes Fish Festival and Working Boat Harbour Race this Saturday and the Falmouth Greenlawns Harbour Race for Working Boats this Sunday. The weather forecast is fair and so both events should be spectacular.

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Andy Tyler — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:30:07 +0000

This weekend St Mawes Sailing Club are hosting the St Mawes One Design Championships and hopefully a fleet approaching double figures will provide a competitive edge to a fleet, which does appear to be in the doldrums at present.

Saturday 15th September sees St Mawes hosting the Harbour Race for Working Boats and the 2nd Annual St Mawes Fish Festival.

Sunday the 16th September and it is the turn of Flushing to host the Working Boat Harbour Race on the Falmouth waterfront. The 23rd September sees the Working Boat fleet return to St Mawes for the Victory Cup Races.

Finally Restronguet Sailing Club hosts the RYA SW Area Zone Trials over the weekend of the 29th/30th September.