PHOTO COURTESY OF HOPA
he TS Playfair has provided sailing training and experiences to groups of students for 48 years; the ship will soon make its permanent home in Hamilton Harbour on Lake Ontario, thanks to efforts from the Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority (HOPA) and the volunteer-run charitable foundation Brigs Youth Sail Training.
“We have watched the tremendous redevelopment of the Hamilton Harbour for years and couldn’t think of a better port for TS Playfair where Great Lakes maritime history is celebrated in Canada’s busiest Great Lakes port,” says Brigs Board Chair Francis Clegg, who spent five years as a teenager onboard TS Playfair, rising to the rank of watch officer.
Specially built in Kingston, where she was christened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, TS Playfair is a 33-ton, steel-hulled, two-masted, square-rigged, 72-foot brigantine that was specifically built to provide sailing training, and is manned by a team of students between the ages of 13 to 18.
To learn more, visit hopaports.ca.
