Wayward gets her name back
Restoration of the 1898 Summers & Payne yawl Wayward - also known as Samphire
The Magnificent Sixes by Tim Street
A Century of Six Metres Since 1907 the Metre Boats have both fascinated and challenged the very best designers of each age to produce boats for the very best helmsmen and crews to compete in the most prestigious international events. As a development class, the Six Metres have been the test-bed for innovative designs [...]
Den Phillips 2019 Calendars
East Coast photographer Den Phillips' large black and white calendars are a great wall feature with their evocative images of classic craft in their element. They also make an excellent Christmas present. The East Coast Calendar (above) is in it’s 31st year and features evocative images of Thames Barges, Fishing Smacks, Classic Yachts and Seascapes [...]
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
It's busy times at Arthur Beale preparing for Christmas... You may have noticed in recent weeks the shop window updated to depict a rather fishy scene which has gone on to inspire the choice of film for our Christmas Screening (see above). We've had lots of compliments so far, and it's certainly London's quirkiest Christmas window [...]
Great Sailing Films
This list of our favourite films about the sea is of course subjective, but we did set ourselves some criteria – that we wanted from all the films here. Firstly the list is put together with the Snugberth cinema in mind, so these are not instructional films where a man with a clipped [...]
Setting a square sail on a yacht
by Will Stirling There are many ways to set a square sail on a sailing boat; this is one of many; simplicity is a virtue. The following method has four ropes and a halyard. Two of these ropes are sheets – which it would be difficult not to invite to the party; without the [...]
Falls of Clyde returning to Scotland
The world's last iron four masted ship, Falls of Clyde, built in 1878, has a date for returning to Scotland for restoration, but desperately needs a funding campaign to take off in order for that to happen. Save Falls of Clyde, a Glasgow-based non-profit group have a date of February 3 2019 for Sevenstar's lift [...]
RIP Jeremy Lines – C&N’s archivist
Jeremy Lines, the prominent yachting archivist for Camper and Nicholson, where he was the chief designer for many years has died in Gosport aged 88. Jeremy was a well respected member of the Association of Yachting Historians (AYH) and had recently been involved with the late Theo Rye, and also the GL Watson expert Martin [...]
Antigua promises more challenging racing
Introducing windward starts and new courses to make sure that the racing is both safer and more challenging are the aims of the new steering committee for the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, annoucned this week. The committee, listed below is chaired by the long-standing organiser Carlo Falcone who runs the 1938 79ft William Fife design [...]