Crossfields Conference

This Conference is about Crossfields Boat Builders of Arnside and the different boats they built.

Crossfields were leading builders of Morecambe Bay Prawners and yachts from 1840s to the 1940s. Boats built by Crossfields include Arthur Ransome’s ‘Swallow’.

Arnside Sailing Club own ‘Severn’, a yacht built by Crossfields in 1912. It is planned to keep ‘Spray’, built by Crossfields in 1896, in Morecambe. ‘Spray’ is owned by the Morecambe Bay Prawner Trust

The programme will include talks about ‘Severn’ and ‘Spray’. Mike Beckett, the President of the OGA, will give a talk on ‘Pacific Moon’, a Crossfield’s boat that sailed to Tahiti in 1931. Mike owns ‘Bonita’, which was built by Crossfields in Arnside in 1896.

The conference will include a buffet lunch.

Social Programme

Pre-Conference: Friday, 21st November. There should be a chance to meet up in Arnside either for a meal or drinks.

Conderence Admission, Saturday 22nd November: £30

Conference Supper, Saturday 22nd November: £16 – Fish, Meat and Vegetarian options

Concert by Lune Tide, Saturday 22nd November: £8 – Evening concert by ‘Lunetide’, featuring the Severn Song, which was written by Mike Greenwood from Glasgow. ‘Lunetide’ are a folk duo based in Sunderland Point, an eighteenth century village and quay south of Lancaster, approached by a tidal road. Mike Greenwood’s uncle was a friend of Joe Wallace who owned ‘Severn’ in the 1920s.

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Any surplus will go towards the upkeep of Severn and Spray