Lady of Avenel Sailing

Sailing + Art = The perfect summer adventure. Sketch and Sail is back with two trips this year! https://www.ladyofavenel.com/sketchandsail

🌊 Lady of Avenel Sailing is heading to the Shetlands in May and the Hebrides in August! No experience is needed for the sailing or the sketching—just a love for nature and good company. Check it out! 👇 Sketch and Sail on Lady of Avenel

Lady of Avenel - Sketch and Sail Sketchbook flickthrough - a voyage in 26 seconds! Sketches from the May 2025 voyage.

Just a couple of spaces left on our Sketch and sail trips.

Sunrise on board @ladyofavenel Can just make out the ruins of Achadun on Lismore, just over the prow of the ship. The mountains of the Morvern peninsula are still shrouded in think pink cloud. Time for a sketch and breakfast!

Just a few spaces left for our sketch and sail in May.

Check out Sketch and Sketch and Sail on Lady of Avenel.

Exciting News! A gathering of our friends and supporters joined us in Maldon on Saturday to hear our plans for expanding our apprentice training. Heritage Marine Foundation is a small charity set up to provide training to apprentices in maritime heritage skills. Young people come to us to learn wooden and steel boatbuilding, spar making, engineering, traditional rigging, and more. Some of these skills are listed on the endangered list at Heritage Crafts. We have the expertise and enthusiasm to pass these skills on to the next generation of young people, and in turn, to ensure that the skills exist to properly maintain the surviving heritage fleet into the future.

There is demand for our trained apprentices in the industry, and young people come to us asking to learn traditional skills. The time is right for us to grow, and on Saturday we launched an appeal to raise funds in support of the development of our charity, which in turn will lead to further maritime heritage training places being created for young people 🎉🎉

We have a long way to go to raise all that we need to successfully achieve our fundraising target. We are looking for people to help us. raise a significant amount of money. Do you know a retired fundraiser? Do you have corporate connections? Do you want to help us make a real difference to the lives of young people?

See our website
https://www.heritagemarinefoundation.org/

To get in touch, or to make a donation.

From the Lady of Avenel we wish you a happy Hogmanay and a happy new year… when in blows in!

Nice little video, Mara Adventures on the Lady.

Rewild & Free - A celebration of the Scottish Ocean A Mara Adventures freediving expedition on The Lady of Avenal around the wild and beautiful West Coast of Scotland.