Guide
Me
FH 233: An engineless 40' Looe lugger
based in Gweek in Cornwall and owned by Jono and Judy Brickhill and built in
1911by Peter Ferris of Looe for Mr. W Pengelly.
She has an overall length of 72' a beam of
12'10" and draft of 5'10" and has
since sailed extensively across the oceans.
A pilchard driver and long
liner she fished out of various East Cornwall
harbours until being sold on to the Solent in
1966.
She has a dipping lug and worked by sail and oar
only and was bought in 1977 from Ted Williams in
Fareham Creek
and restored by the present owners. She was
worked by Ted and was then named "Guidez-Moi"
and had a 6LW Gardner engine with a Parsons
gearbox and a 42" prop. There was a single
cylinder Lister as a generator with the exhaust
through the hollow mast. The stern which had
been cut off to get her to length has since been
restored by Jono Brickhill. The owner before Ted
was a Charles Williams who was apparently not
known to be related.
In 1988 the Brickhills sailed
via the Douarnenez Festival to Spain, Portugal,
Tenerife, La Palma and on to Brazil. They
returned via Cape Town in South Africa and then
later back to America.
A more recent photograph of
Guide Me taken on 19th September
2007 at Gweek by Martin Halley
who has the copyright but kindly allowed
it's inclusion:
Some archive
pictures of Guide Me sailing:
