The 2026 festival
The 2026 festival will take place 3 – 5 July 2026. It starts at 12pm each day and finishes at 10.30pm on Friday and Saturday, and at around 6.30pm on Sunday.
Programme Sales
The 2026 digital programme is available as a PDF.
To buy a copy, please use the payment link below. Once payment has been made, please email a screenshot or confirmation of your successful payment to enquiries@seasalts.co.uk, and the festival team will email the PDF programme to you.
You can also buy the programme in hard copy from the following:
Archie Browns, Coast, Just Lily, Kings Arms, Mousehole Deli and Kitchen, Mowzer Gallery, Newlyn Pharmacy, No.1 Deli, Orange Cafe, Paul’s Car Park Hut, Ride On, Rock Pool Cafe, Seawitch Stores, The Cornish Deli, The Fish Shop, The Fisherman’s Arms, The Mousehole, The Old Coastguard, The Ship, Tolcarne Inn, and Trewavas.
Volunteers and Donations
Huge thanks to our 200+ volunteers, as we couldn’t make this amazing festival happen without them.
The festival is free to attend, and this is only possible through donations, funds raised and the time given by our volunteers. If you’d like to volunteer in the future, please email enquiries@seasalts.co.uk.
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Timeless Traditions: Celebrating Vicki Norman’s Special Gift to Sea, Salts & Sail 2026
As Sea Salts & Sail celebrates its 30th anniversary year, we are delighted and honoured to showcase a specially commissioned painting by internationally renowned Newlyn artist Vicki Norman, whose stunning artwork graces the cover of the… Read more...
Once upon a time you could look down on the channel between St. Clement’s Island and Mousehole Harbour and see one of the largest Cornish fleets of luggers, heading out to their fishing grounds. Sea Salts and Sail will re-enact that scene as over forty traditional boats with similar tanned sails, leave the port, tacking back and forth inside and around the island. This festival really reveals Mousehole’s close relationship with the sea. From kids paddling at low tide, sculling races, to the harbour packed full of historic vessels, it’s when the village really comes to life. It will be a very nostalgic scene whether you are a spectator on the shore or a participant under sail - be there! The best way to arrive is by classic boat, of course - I’ll be on the 40’ lugger Barnabas.
Toby Floyer - Skipper of lugger Barnabas, 1881 St Ives mackerel driver
(Cornish Maritime Trust)