Warm welcome aboard pilot cutter Amelie Rose with free tours for Buckler’s Hard visitors
July 15, 2024
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Find out more about the unique boat, with a personal invitation from her skipper owner Nicola Beck. As many as 46 pilot cutters worked out of Scilly in the 19th century but all were broken up within a century. Boatbuilder Luke Powell renewed this line of powerful and sturdy cutters with their trademark lute sterns and heavy scantlings.
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Buckler’s Hard was the boatyard of Henry and then his son Balthazar Adams, who built warships for the Royal Navy, then revenue cutters at the turn of the 19th century – which would have been very similar in design to the Amelie Rose.
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The pilot cutter is accessible via a jetty with a ramp and due to the tides, the ramp will be less steep earlier in the sessions. Amelie Rose is sadly not wheelchair accessible and you will need some mobility to climb aboard and go below deck – the ability to climb a one-metre ladder is required to get on board, with a two-metre ladder to get below deck. The crew will be on hand to lend assistance, if needed.
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Visitors can now enter Buckler’s Hard village for free and enjoy free access to the original Shipwright’s Cottage and HMS Agamemnon – Navigating the Legend in the Shipwrights Workshop.
New paintings have also been added to the free exhibition The Art of Buckler’s Hard, with artworks from the Montagu family collection and Landscape Artist of the Year semi-finalists’ pictures of Buckler’s Hard in the Shipyard Office.
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With an admission ticket to Buckler’s Hard Museum, discover more about the maritime history of the village and follow residents’ stories in the exhibition of village life.
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