Saving Keewaydin

Aim

Keewaydin is stranded on an iron island in Sailor's Creek. Our goal is to re-fasten and re-float her. We have the team... but we need bolts!

If you choose to buy a bolt (or several) for our project and the checkout adds an unwanted 'tip' please read all the way to the bottom for how to remove this...

Sailors Creek CIC is a community of like-minded volunteers dedicated to the regeneration of a polluted creek in Penryn river. One of the boats abandoned in the creek is the gaff ketch called Keewaydin. Built in 1913, the boat has an amazing history including competing in and completing the first Whitbread round the world race in 1976.

The boat is now high and dry (mostly), stranded in a dilapidated dry dock. She needs our help to refasten the hull planks, re-caulk the hull seams and relaunch the boat. 

There are plenty of willing hands - shipwrights, volunteers and well-wishers from the local community - all under the able direction of master shipwright, Spike Davies... but what we need is money for materials! 

£2 buys a 300mm galvanised bolt and we need 3000 of them plus some tools and safety gear for our volunteers.
We have a generous donor who is prepared to match fund anything we can raise to help refasten Keewaydin.

The clock is ticking as we need big tides to relaunch Keewaydin and the biggest tides of the year are around the Autumn Equinox.  We need to be ready. 

At checkout, if you DO NOT want to leave a tip, you can remove this by clicking on 'enter custom amount' and changing it to '0'. As we are a community organisation, we do not have a platform fee so this 'tip' goes to crowdfunder and is OPTIONAL.

Here is a diagram to show you how to remove it from your checkout.

This project successfully funded on 11th April 2024