1958 Dir: John Sturges, 86 mins Hemingway’s last great novel of 1952 is required reading for anyone who goes boating; even lake sailors love this great tale of the sea and its unreliable bounty. The literary masterpiece follows a fisherman on such a run of bad luck he typifies the wooden leg rewards of the [...]
1992 Director Carrol Ballard 126min The eternally preppy Matthew Modine and a fresh faced Jennifer Grey star in this fictional but far from standard losing everything and winning it all back film about the America’s Cup set to a soaring score. Modine is blamed for losing The Americas Cup and strives, with the help of [...]
1952, Dir: John Huston, Horizon/Romulus Cert U, 105 mins This legendary Technicolour Boy’s Own adventure, set in 1914 German East Africa, is a love story cleverly wrapped in an intrepid river journey. Bogart plays a filthy river captain (for which he won an Oscar) of the eponymous, equally grubby 30ft river steamer (the one used [...]
1989 Dir: Phillip Noyce 96mins Based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Williams, this is a film Orson Wells tried to make in the late 1960s that, once finally made by Phillip Noyce in 1989, launched both Billy Zane’s and Nichole Kidman’s career (way back when she was still a ginger.) [...]
Check out this No.2 windlass, made for a replica Britanny tuna fishing boat, under construction in Nova Scotia. It's built by Webster's of Torpoint in Cornwall. See more by clicking the link below: https://classicsailor.com/go-to-guides/websters-boat-machinery/
Claudia Myatt's excellent Year Planner has arrived from the presses. The 2019 design has all the usual features - bright colours, A2 size, plenty of space to write on and a print to cut out and keep at the end of the year. Usefully Claudia includes the moon states so you can work out your [...]
An extraordinary documentary about one man's battle to keep his local boatbuilding tradition alive. The film is the story of the local wooden sloops of the Caribbean, most of which were built in Carriacou near Grenada. The boats were used for fishing and travelling between the islands and still have a reputation as fast and [...]
A new sailing cargo ship is being built in Costa Rica This is an exciting project! Designed to deliver carbon negative marine freight the 155ft (47m) three master is at the lofting stage with massive baulks of timber arriving to the site in the jungle where the team has assembled to build the vessel, [...]
by Sarah Johnson In 1923 when she was launched, the yachting media noted, ‘The new Solent Sunbeam One Design Class, from the board of Messrs Woodnutt of St Helens Isle of Wight, promises to be one of the best which has ever been produced. The design shows a powerful yet sweet lined little vessel [...]
