3 October 2019 - London, England. The International Six Metre Class Association (ISMA) is delighted to announce the launch of a ground breaking online class archive at 6metrearchive.org. The Six Metre Class has a long and illustrious history dating back to the introduction of the International Rule in 1907. That history encompasses inclusion in nine [...]
Report by Jonty Sherwill, Photos by Rick Tomlinson. The fourth Hamble Classics Regatta hosted this year by the Royal Air Force Yacht Club (20-22 September) was another major success with 68 entries across 10 classes and for the first time extended to three days to launch 'Big Classic Friday’, with extra racing for the larger yachts. Lutine of Helford, [...]
The stem of Ceiba, the wooden carbon-negative cargo sailing ship being built in Costa Rica was manually hoisted high up into the air and installed recently. The stem construction in place The wood used for constructing the stem – which is the forward-most curve of the hull, is the well-known shipbuilding timber Guapinol [...]
Jutta James and Ruth in New York with son Hannes (who did not make the crossing) It's sixty years since James Wharram and his two German girlfriends crossed the Atlantic Ocean from West to East aboard the 40ft catamaran Rongo. The boat was designed and built in the West Indies after the trio successfully [...]
+44(0)1872 580022 - Email: Skippers@classic-sailing.co.uk How do I get ashore Captain? This might sound a bizzare question. Surely you put on your best ‘going out’ clothes and step lightly onto the pontoon or quayside?So what if you find yourself on a mooring or at anchor? How does each vessel ferry its guest crew ashore?To save [...]
Cruising in a dinghy can get you across seas – and further up creeks than yachts, advises Roger Barnes Heading out to sea: "We look around our boat with pride as she breasts the swell..." Why do you cruise in a dinghy rather than a cabin yacht?” I am often asked by sundry [...]
Greta Thunberg, the 16 year old Swedish climate protection activist, set sail from Plymouth this afternoon bound for the New York United Nations Climate Change conference aboard the 60ft (18.28m) foiling high-tech racing yacht Malizia II. Greta, who has never sailed offshore before, famously refuses to fly, citing carbon emmissions by jet aeroplane as one [...]
The Robbe & Berking Yachting Heritage Centre, in Flensburg, N Germany, is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the American schooner America and the birth of the America´s Cup. Opening on August 22nd - the date America won her later-to-be eponymous cup, the exhibition has been put together with some of the heavyweights of classic yachting [...]
The 1901 rocketyacht Ester – the so-called mini Vasa rescued from the deep in 2015 by Bo Eriksson and friend Per Helgren, has launched after a four year restoration and started some sailing trials at Örnsköldsvik in Sweden's High Coast, in the northern Baltic. Here in a first film of her sailing by Leif Wikberg [...]
