Please see below for interesting links to Sponsors, Supporters and similar organisations
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Contact the Project Coordinator
Email us at
Tim Clayton, 07795 156653.
Worfolk Boat Trust, c/o Trues Yard Fisherfolk Museum, North Street, Kings Lynn, PE30 1 QW
SPONSORS
We are very grateful to the companies below and to many other enthusiastic local people and organisations
 | Teamac paints are a quality paint system and their products have worked very well for us. Their knowledge and support have been very useful to us. |
 | Kings Lynn Associated British Ports has been generous in launching us with their crane and emergency mooring space. |
 | The council has helped us on many occasions and enabled us to moor on the pontoons. |
 | Travis Perkins has been extremely helpful with space and facilities during winter maintenance. |
 | Mr Signs is very professional and have helped us several times over the years. Highly recommended. |
 | Adrian Flux has been very good at sponsoring us over the years and have been very helpful. |
 | ASAP have supplied lots of parts from the early days and their knowledge and experience have been really useful. |
 | Orsted has been very generous with sponsorship under their green community program. |
USEFUL LINKS
True’s Yard
True’s Yard is all that remains of King’s Lynn’s old fishing community, the North End, which existed for hundreds of years, and which was finally demolished in the clearances of the 1930s and the 1960s. Once, hundreds of families lived within a stone’s throw of their chapel of St Nicholas, which still dominates the area and the North End had its own boat builders, chandlers, sailmakers, pubs, bakehouses and school. Now, although the fishing fleet still sails regularly from King’s Lynn, the old way of life has gone.
Wells and King’s Lynn Coastal Rowing Club.
WKLCRC is a Community Coastal Rowing Club with members who are also volunteers on Baden Powel. They are Building and Rowing St Ayles Skiffs in the Great Ouse at King’s Lynn, Wells-next-the-Sea and around Norfolk’s inland and coastal waters.They row for pleasure; be it a break at a beach, launching into the surf at Hunstanton, through the Wells marshes to see Seals or on to Blakeney. Always looking for new members.
Brian Kennell Boatbuilders
Brian started building boats in 1973 and has been involved in a wide range of projects. Many ‘Essex Smacks’ have been restored by him and he has worked on a number of Lottery-funded historic vessel restorations including Thames Barges and Dunkirk Little Ships. Brian also builds the 12-foot ‘GRP Smacks Boat’ which is available in rowing and sailing versions.
Recent projects have included fitting out a Smacks Boat for a vicar in Devon, the complete Lottery-funded restoration of the King’s Lynn cockler ‘Baden Powell’, the restoration of the Chelmer Lighter ‘Susan’ and the restoration of Maurice Griffith’s yacht ‘Storm’.
www.briankennellboatbuilders.co.uk
Rescue Wooden Boats
Centred at Stiffkey, close to the boat building yard of David and George Hewitt, Rescue Wooden Boats has a visitor centre telling the story of wooden fishing boats and lifeboats along the north Norfolk coast. In the boatyard, the Lucy Lavers lifeboat is undergoing restoration and new wooden boats are under construction. They have Worfolk boats in occasionally for maintenance and repairs.
Their website includes a wide-ranging archive of filmed interviews, including one with Bill Worfolk and another with Vic Pratt, the Worfolk apprentice who helped us with the restoration of the Baden Powell.
There is plenty to explore on www.rescuewoodenboats.com
Britannia Sailing Trust
This Trust is fundraising to restore the historic vessel ‘Britannia’, built in King’s Lynn by the Worfolks so that she can be used to teach seafaring and boat restoration skills to future generations www.britanniasailingtrust.org