Priscilla Launch

[merlin3688]

Pioneer Sailing Trust

Priscilla is being officially launched at Brightlingsea town hard tomorrow (Thursday 29th) by the Countess of Wessex. We look forward to seeing lots of people there! Come along from 13:00 onward .

 

[MikeBz]

An interesting aspect of this restoration is that she was concrete sheathed in the early 1980s, so presumably one of the less pleasant jobs was hacking off all the concrete (if it hadn't fallen off already).

Lots of historic info on Priscilla here: http://www.priscillamn76.com/

And picture of the ferro-cementing operation here: http://www.ferroboats.com/sheath3.html