Torpoint Mosquito Sailing Club

In order to understand the circumstances that led to the development of the Club we need to reflect on the way of life before the turn of the century. Road travel was by foot or horse and carriage so Liskeard would have seemed distant to local people, and although a ferry service had been in existence since 1791 the road to Plymouth was indeed difficult. Sailing in the 1890s was therefore an important facet of community life. Apart from a few steam pinnaces, sail and oar were the principal means... more