Mayhem

Today started with a puncture on my way to Truro, roadside change took about 15 minutes.

Mayhem, the best way to describe the first day of Falmouth’s International Sea Shanty Festival. The streets are thronged with ‘pirates’ and ‘wenches’, some looking as though they have spent a fortune on the attire and accruements, cutlasses, flintlock pistols, compass boxes, hooks etc. others look as though they have spent £15 online for a party costume.
The alcohol free zones, pretty much the whole of the towns main streets, goes out of the window as people amble with pewter tankards and plastic tumblers.
It’s all great fun and the music is pretty good too.

Todays photo is of an ex RNLI lifeboat alongside in Falmouth.
The ON989, 48-02, “James And Catherine Macfarlane” was built in 1967 and is an Oakley 48′ 6″ Mk2, which served at Padstow 1967 – 83, then at Lizard-Cadgwith 1984 -87.
She was retired from service in 1988 and put on display for 29 years at Lands End under loan from the RNLI until being bought by a former crewman and his son, Robert & Simon Francis in 2017 and underwent a full restoration.
I think I may have ‘Blipped’ about her before during a previous visit.