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Mousehole Sea Salts and Sail Festival
Sea Salts & Sail is a bi–annual festival held in the small harbour village of Mousehole in West Cornwall. Mousehole's picturesque sandy harbour becomes packed with traditional sailing vessels, there are traditional maritime craft dispays, sea-food cookery demonstrations, heritage walks, the kipperman, tin smelting, historic maritime photo exhibitions and traditional Cornish music!
The full programme of events for the previous 2010 festival can be seen at the official Sea, Salts and Sail website.
Sea Salts and Sail is an intimate festival, where you can wander along the ancient harbour wall, smelling the sea, viewing the boats, hearing a traditional song float across the evening tide with a soused mackerel in one hand and a clutch of history in the other.
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Sail to the 2012 Sea Salts and Sail festival on Josefine!
The next Sea Salts and Sail festival will be in July 2012. There will be 7 places available to sail on Josefine from Plymouth along the spectacular Cornish coastline to Mousehole for the festival, staying aboard on a bunk and breakfast basis. Full details will be able to be seen on our Sailing Calendar when the dates of the festival are announced.
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Sea Salts and Sail was inaugurated in 1996 by a handful of enthusiasts to celebrate the maritime heritage of West Cornwall and enliven it for todays and future generations.
Mousehole (Porth Ennis) along with Mevagissey was almost completely dependent on the sea for its livelihood and was in the early 19th Century the largest fishing and pilotage port in Mounts Bay.
The growth of fishing and the requirement to preserve the fish, required salt, and an export market of fish to Catholic countries in the Mediterranean was evolved, hence the Fishermen’s Toast:
Here’s to the Pope may he never relent,
But add fifty days to the period of Lent,
May he tell all his people from here to the poles,
That there is nothing like Pilchards for Saving the Souls!
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