The Antigua Classics started today, and the 31-year-old event is going as strong as ever. It holds an almost mythical place in many a sailor's heart, with the fantastic tradewind sailing in crystal cobalt seas mixed with some rum punch and a great party atmosphere down-island style. Kirsty Morrison The event attracts its [...]
by Barbara Merry and John Darwin, This is a good book, taking in techniques with modern braided rope, even double braided and parallel core, showing how to eye-splice an eight-plait rope or how to make a short splice. It's very informative with 150 illustrations and 25 photos showing how things are done. Importantly it includes [...]
The replica of an 18th-century lugger now sustainably carries cargo Grayhound, the replica of a three-masted revenue cutter from the 18th century was built by Marcus and Freya Pomeroy- Rowden in Cornwall in 2010-2012 initially to offer charter sailing. But over the last three years they have evolved a more ambitious hybrid programme involving cargo [...]
The skipper took his first mistress in 1992. She was not the blonde, slim thing that I had been expecting. In fact, when I first saw her, I thought she was sagging a bit round the axils; she was defiantly broad in the beam. He however was clearly besotted and disappeared down her hatch to [...]
The third edition of Maine’s newest regatta - 2018 Camden Classics Cup - is scheduled for July 26-28 in beautiful Camden, Maine. This year we are pleased to offer dockage at Lyman-Morse at Wayfarer as part of your registration fee. The best part? We kept the pricing the same as last year, too. We hope [...]
Plasticising a blue whale heart When a whale dies, it becomes a rotting feast for birds and sharks. If it ever happens to reach shore, it’ll likely be in terrible shape. Lucky for mammalogy technicians at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, a blue whale that washed up in Newfoundland in 2014 was in good [...]
In which Lucy L Ford attends a sea survival course – a birthday present from The Skipper ‘You have be able to jump into the sea when the time comes’... I can’t wait Apparently when we retire we are sailing round the world. In preparation for this great event, for my birthday The Skipper gave [...]
What there is now is what I would call absolute forecasting... but keep watching the visual signs if you don’t want to get caught out By Andrew Bray In mid-November I decided to go out for the final sail of the season. The plan was to sail for a couple of hours to air the [...]
Trevor David Clifton on a tall story that became historical fact From our Instructor's Tales series Eight pretty ladies stepped aboard, my crew for the day. It was the first day of the autumn regatta and the vice-commodore had asked me to take spectators out to watch the racing. It was sun-hat weather. A light [...]
