Trinovante

‘Hands on’

Trinovante has been designed and fine tuned over many years to get you actively sailing the ship. It is a highly personalised sailing experience with the emphasis on sailing.
Su and John’s enthusiasm for sailing Trinovante will capture your heart and soul. It is not a luxury sit back and watch other people do the work, it is thoroughly ‘hands on’, a very social experience we all need post covid.

She is simple to sail but with loads of options for sail trim all of which you will accomplish by the end of the voyage. This is learning to sail at its best.

Cosy Interior

Below Decks

Trinovante is comfy and functional, not luxurious but friendly and very well organised. Good sized bunks an interesting library and plenty of opportunities to get to know your fellow crew members.

Su and John

Su and John are the owners and skippers of Trinovante. Having built the boat and run her since 2005 as a sailing holiday charter vessel.

Classic Sailing has for a long time admired the way they run Trinovante and her hands on sailing style. They are a very outgoing social team and they are incredibly good at making your voyage a successful enjoyable experience.

History

She has now sailed over 40,000 miles. In the last few years, Trinovante has been sailing ’round Britain Voyages’, exploring the fjords and islands of Norway, competing in the Tall Ships races and visiting countries around the Baltic.

If you are wondering about the name Trinovante, the Trinovantes were the pre-Roman Celtic tribe who lived in Essex where Trinovante was built.

Creoula the inspiration for Trinovante
Back in 1983 John Shores, Trinovante’s designer and skipper, was walking down a steep Lisbon streets towards the river Tejo. When a new vista opened up showing the Portuguese Schooner Creoula on her moorings only a couple of hundred feet from the shore.

That’s John decided he wanted a schooner.
Though the inspiration was Creoula, Trinovante has been designed to be less than 24m long, robust, seaworthy and easy to handle by a small crew but with the ability to carry lots of sail with a stronger crew. Trinovante has been designed and fine tuned over many years to get you actively sailing the ship. It is a highly personalised sailing experience with the emphasis on sailing.
Su and John’s enthusiasm for sailing Trinovante will capture your heart and soul. It is not a luxury sit back and watch other people do the work, it is thoroughly ‘hands on’, a very social experience we all need post covid.
She is simple to sail but with loads of options for sail trim all of which you will accomplish by the end of the voyage.
Trinovante also had to be economical to build and maintain.
It took John about a year working on the design before the keel was laid in Wivenhoe in Essex, a small village on the banks of the River Colne with a long history of shipbuilding, fishing and sailing.