Do you know any Mad Dogs and Englishmen? If not go along and see the new exhibition at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall?
Celebrating British eccentricity and the desire to do something different, the Maritime Museum's Mad Dogs, and Englishmen? exhibition will centre on people and their crazy crafts involved in daring, different or just plain silly adventures.
Opening on Saturday January 20, visitors will see Tim FitzHigham's bath tub that he rowed across the English Channel from Calais to Tower Bridge in 2005 to raise money for Comic Relief!
Also on show will be Hugo Vihlen's Fathers Day, the smallest boat to have ever crossed the Atlantic and John Fairfax's Britannia the first to row single-handed across the Atlantic.
Otherwise sit back and imagine the Victorian John MacGregor, who is considered the father of modern canoeing. Camping in canoes during adventurous trips to Europe and the Baltic, he even took the Rob Roy canoe, featured in the exhibition, to explore the Middle East.
Ben Lumby, Exhibition Manager, said: "This is a must see exhibition celebrating the eccentricity of our fellow Englishmen. We can all say we'd like to row across the Atlantic or English Channel, but it's only a rare few who actually do it!"
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