In its 90th anniversary, Sea Scamp has been awarded National Flagship of the Year by National Historic Ships UK and will be open to visitors at the Southampton International Boat Show.
Sea Scamp is a 50 square metre racing/cruising yacht built in 1936 by Abeking & Rasmussen in Lemwerder, Germany to train Luftwaffe navigators, originally named “Siskin” meaning a ‘siskin’ bird, or slang for ‘rascal’. Visitors are welcome aboard to discover Sea Scamp, a unique piece of living history. A three quarter-rigged Bermudan sloop 41 ft overall with an 8 ft 6 in beam, constructed of mahogany on oak frames.
Now owned and maintained by The Sea Scamp Syndicate, a non-for-profit club of over 100 volunteers of all ages and abilities, promoting seamanship, and traditional skills for maintenance and restoration.
Sea Scamp was brought to the UK as part of a fleet of yachts known as the Windfall Yachts at the end of the Second World War, raced by the Royal Marines, and by the Sea Scouts on the Tamar in Cornwall, and Plymouth. In 1984, she was disposed by the MOD. The Sea Scamp Syndicate was set up. She was restored and sailed around the British Isles, Ireland, France and the Netherlands, regularly sailing to join the D-Day commemorations in Normandy, and in classic regattas.
