Tectona, a curious story.
Tectona off Bolt Head by Gordon Frickers 40 x 61 cm (16″ x 24″), available £ 1,175.
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This is a unique painting and story; Tectona off Bolt Head.
This website and Gordon Frickers painting saved this historic old vessel and helped put her back to work sail training young people.
Tectona’s story in brief:
Between 1964 and 1980 the ‘Tectona’ was proudly owned by the ‘Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of Plymouth’.
She notably served as a sail training vessel, partnering another large ketch, the “Moyana“, giving invaluable sea experience for cadets of the Plymouth School of Maritime Studies.
Tectona was sold and disappeared to eventually to be saved and return to Plymouth in December 2007.
The word ‘Tectona’ has over 5000 references on the Internet.
Tectona is a particularly durable type of teak.
In 2006, only about 6 referred to this remarkable vessel.
This website, together with Gordon Frickers and this painting have played a small but significant part in the story of saving the Tectona for today’s and future generations by bringing together several people who together found the old boat in a remote creek southern France.
The old girl was truly “up the creek”, in a poor unseaworthy condition.
Purchased and made seaworthy, Tectona was sailed back to Plymouth where after extensive repairs she has resumed her sail training role.
Tectona off Bolt Head, a detail
“Tectona” was built in Calicut, India in 1929 of teak.
Bolt Head is notable and picturesque and approximately South by South East of Plymouth.
This is a National Trust owned headland on the South West Coast of Devon, England, United Kingdom, situated west of the Kingsbridge Estuary so a frequent haunt of our Tectona.
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