As Cowes Week is set to begin the harbour master at Britain's home of yachting, Capt. Stuart McIntosh, has issued a guide to essential harbour safety for all boat users. Cowes Harbour Commission’s number one priority and responsibility is to maintain a safe harbour for all, the HM says. Equally, it is the responsibility of all [...]
New Lowestoft-built ship's boat is launched for Excelsior Excelsior Trust – the Lowestoft based sailing charity – has taken delivery of a traditional ships’ boat, built by Lowestoft’s International Boatbuilding Training College. This boat is an historical reconstruction based upon a drawing held by the Science Museum recording of a smack’s boat in 1937. Excelsior [...]
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By Sam Llewellyn It is a little-known fact that the jetski, like the tractor and the iron lung, was invented by Stalin - though on closer inspection the roots of these machines in a Communist dictatorship are easily discernible. Jetniks, as their riders were originally called, claimed that access to the seas was free to [...]
A first view of the new Harker's Yard gig - built in glassfibre by apprentices with the Pioneer Trust in Brightlingsea. [/fusion_youtube] The new gig is the same as the well known wooden ones, and was being tested for buoyancy. Nina Crouchman and the Pioneer Trust’s founder and chairman Rupert Marks were [...]
New RYA video advises boaters on how to attach safety lines and the best equipment to use You wouldn’t drive, take a plane journey or tear around a roller coaster ride without being properly strapped in, so why tackle the waves without being secured to your boat? That’s the safety message being delivered in a [...]
Racing to keep up with demand – by Julia Jones How the restoration of Pioneer produced a training scheme for apprentices which has led to a whole new interest in competitive rowing. Apprentice Jake Anderson showing part of Moliette's backbone (stem, apron, forward knee) Sandwiched between two examples of traditional boatbuilding craft at [...]
Chris Potter reports from the Suffolk Yacht Harbour Classic Regatta 2019 “This is a very special regatta!” I heard this many times over the weekend of this year’s Suffolk Yacht Harbour Classic Regatta, not the least from Sean McMillan the boss of Spirit Yachts, who, as anyone who has seen a Spirit Yacht will [...]
The English Braids Falmouth Classics 2019 on Friday 14th - Sunday 16th June was hugely popular, with 190 classic boats taking part. Entries came from far and wide, including France, the Bristol Channel, West Wales, Essex, the Thames, the Solent and other parts of the South West. The marvellous Quay Punt Curlew in the [...]
