Unedited amateur footage produced by Doug Collender of the Newcastle Maritime Festival, part of the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race, taking place along the Newcastle and Gateshead quaysides in July 1986. As well as some of the larger vessels taking part such as the training ships Dar Mlodziezy and Sir Winston Churchill, the film also features many of the small vessels as well as the large crowds that came out to enjoy the festival. A Sea King helicopter flies overhead downstream towards the Tyne...

Unedited amateur footage produced by Doug Collender of the Newcastle Maritime Festival, part of the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race, taking place along the Newcastle and Gateshead quaysides in July 1986. As well as some of the larger vessels taking part such as the training ships Dar Mlodziezy and Sir Winston Churchill, the film also features many of the small vessels as well as the large crowds that came out to enjoy the festival. A Sea King helicopter flies overhead downstream towards the Tyne Bridge in the distance. A small crowd of onlookers watches. Onboard a large sailing ship members of the crew work on the high rigging. A parking warden looks over a parked car changes to a view looking down from the top of a ships mast on four smaller sailing boats moored nearby. From the Tyne Bridge cars and pedestrians travel along the Newcastle quayside where a number of sailing boats are moored. Crowds standing along the quayside look out on a number of sailing and motorboats travelling up and down the Tyne, crews from one sailing ship work together to store rigging. A Tyne tugboat comes alongside the three masted Polish sailing training ship Dar Mlodziezy moored along the quayside. A man takes a Polaroid photograph beside the ship as crowds walk past. Another man onboard passes a pen and piece of paper to someone walking past. The crew of the vessel stand in a line along the deck as the ship pulls away, they wave at the watching crowds. Two tugboats guide the Dar Mlodziezy as it heads downstream passing the Baltic Flour Mill. From the quayside crowds watch as other smaller sailing vessels head downstream passing the sailing training ship Sir Winston Churchill. Some of the crew take photographs of the passing vessels. From the Gateshead Quayside the camera pans downstream from the Tyne Bridge passing many sailing ships moored along the Newcastle quayside. Back on the Newcastle side of the river a speedboat races upstream past the Baltic Flour Mill. From the deck of their small sailing vessel a man drinks a mug of tea while chatting with a couple next to him. General views both of the crowds walking up and down the quayside as well as the various sized sailing ships moored nearby. Rubbish and stacked chairs around a deserted Bristol Street Motors stall, a couple sit nearby. With the crowds now gone bins overflow with rubbish and gather around on the ground. Nearby the hording on the side of an articulated lorry reads ‘The Solid Fuel Advisory Services’. Staff from the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race in blue sweatshirts speak with a man beside a ship. Photographers take shots of the Sir Winston Churchill. Another speedboat travels past as a man with a video camera films the Dar Mlodziezy moored nearby. Onboard another vessel three people chat, one man turns and writing on the back of his t-shirt reads ‘I Hate Heights’. Crowds walk along the quayside as more boats travel up and down the river. Docked on the Gateshead side of the river The Tuxedo Princess. Onboard a smaller boat a man rests an inflatable bottle of Cutty Sark, another raises a line of bunting up the mast of his vessel. Another ship raises a number of small flags. Three teenage sailors sit at the bow of a ship, one looks up and sees the camera filming them. Members of the St John’s Ambulance speak with a woman. The films ends with a man taking a photograph of someone climbing the rigging of a ship as another smaller motor-boat heads upstream.