Sir Malcolm Campbell’s 1937 triple world water speed record breaking K3 BLUEBIRD returns to Lake Maggiore in July to mark the 80th anniversary of her final speed record. Filching, East Sussex, U.K. 31st May 2018: K3 Bluebird, Sir Malcolm Campbell's triple world water-speed record-breaking power boat, will make a historic return journey to Switzerland [...]
It's the Beale Park Boat Show this weekend – June 1 to 3. It's always a good show and great to see the boats on the water - many of which you can try out yourself. While mainly a small boat show - where the boats are mostly small that is, there is also often [...]
BY GUY VENABLES Not far from where I live the first English gin to use alcohol distilled from grapes, rather than grain, is to be born. And Chilgrove is its name. Praise be. For gins that use wine-based spirit are in a different class. It’s akin to the di erences [...]
This is a magical tale – which should be on all parents’ (and grandparents’!) books list as a classic story of fantasy sailing for children. It centres around a boy, a keen sailor, who takes his gaff-rigged cabin boat out in all weathers, risking all to be thought of as the best sailor of his little home port. One night [...]
In our experience of teaching folks to sail, both on our own Traditional Boat Skills courses aboard Amelie Rose and through the RYA YachtmasterTM scheme we’ve come across many “methods” for doing everything from making a cup of tea to picking up a man overboard. Some of these are excellent but none of them is [...]
Seven years after it first appeared in print we find ourselves going back to this book. Invariably the need to cross reference a detail or check something on the design list (complete and concise!) gets side-channelled into a happy half hour of reading or re-reading about one or other of the beautiful yachts featured here. [...]
Open boat or dinghy cruising has held a perennial interest for a special type of sailor since yachting began. And in the 1970s the handy Drascombe Lugger was a great boat to be getting afloat and sailing off along the coast if not sometimes over the horizon. If you were lucky your best girl came [...]
Meandering about the Essex and Suffolk tidal creeks of the Thames Estuary in his Finesse 24, Nick Ardley has picked up all sorts of tales and snippets over the years, and relates them here in an appropriately leisurely and discursive manner. Reading it is a bit like drifting on a slack tide of a warm [...]
Memoirs of a Racing Skipper First published in 1950 this is a welcome reprint of a professional skipper's experiences from the days of late Victorian and Edwardian sailing – days of the Big Class, through to the interwar period. In 1867 Tom Diaper was born into a family of yacht crew, occasional fishermen and one-time [...]
