A few people in Brixham can still remember the days of fishing under
sail and many families have artifacts photos, log books, crew service certificates,
ships pennants from their forebears who built and sailed the trawlers. Recognizing
the significance of this historical record, a project was launched in 2000, with the help
of a small grant from the Lottery Fund, to develop an archive of Brixham Sailing Trawlers
A key component of the archive is the Lanfear Brixham Sailing
Trawler database, which contains the records of all the boats built in Brixham and
enables searches by boat name or number, owner, skipper and, indeed, any other key word in
the database.