Some drone footage of the mast installation.

A big milestone today, Saturday 6th April because the 1st sections of the 3 masts were lifted into place by KAS CRANE HIRE LTD who have been great supporters of us since 1990, Thank you!

A beautiful  day on the bonfire site today.

Here are some views on the Deck of the Mayflower bonfire:

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A view looking towards the stern with the mesh covering the deck below where the Pilgrims would have travelled! and of course Paul Copp (Coppy) hard at work!

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A view towards the Bow. You can see one of the 2 portacabins on-site that were kindly donated by Pearce Home / Pearce Construction.

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A few weeks ago we had a busy day tidying with a telehandler from Aplant and it made a considerable mess so this weekend Aplant supplied a small digger so we could level the site and dig a few more holes to the rear for some more trees to support the buildings to be constructed on the port. Trees donated by RHS Rosemoor.

If all goes well next weekend Saturday 6th April KAS Crane Hire will be on-site15:28:08A view from the deck - 30th March 2019 to lift the 1st 40 ft sections of the masts into place!

Restart of the build started, good progress.

Thank you Aplant for the supply of the machinery

Our Mayflower 400 - Bonfire 2020 event is now listed as an event on the Mayflower 400 website:

https://www.mayflower400uk.org/events/2020/august-2020/bonfire-2020/

A short video of the sign unveiling and Sponsor event in August 2018.

Courtesy of Step Back In Time TV

The day started with a sponsor event where our supporters and sponsors visited to firstly see the official unveiling of our Hand painted 8' x 4' painted by our President Roger Davies. The sponsors were then shown the bonfire close up and the plans that we are working to whilst having a cup of tee and refreshments. Please visit our Sponsors and supporters page to who is helping us by clicking this link.

After this we started the Family Fun day!

We staged our annual Family fun day on the 25th August. This is a FREE event with plenty of bouncy castles and climbing inflatables, a climbing wall plus much more....

Later we had live music from 4pm with the Last Ranchero's and the Nomads. Thank you so much for supporting us an playing for nothing, we couldn't put on this event without your invaluable support.

Photos below courtesy of Andy Davey Photography.

The shape of the Mayflower can be seen taking shape, see the photos below.

I missed a week of being on site and what a surprise I had! It was a dramatic change, not watertight yet but getting there.