The famous paddlesteamer Waverley has just been withdrawn from service for the 2019 season after engineers report that she needs new boilers. With fears for the future of this last seagoing passenger-paddle steamer in the world, her owners Waverley Excursions Ltd have announced an appeal to raise money to carry out the work. Her boilers [...]
A West Country family were reunited with some special boats that were designed and built in Teignmouth for the Royal Navy. Three generations of the Morgan Giles family went sailing at Chichester on the boats that were used to train naval officers from the 1960s to the 1980s. Jane Shaddick, Francis Charles Morgan Giles’ granddaughter, [...]
The 96-year-old Solent Sunbeam class welcomed a brand new yacht to its fleet last week with the launching of V70 Minty which took place at Itchenor, the base for this historic and much-admired classic keel-boat fleet. Minty’s hull was built on the Isle of Wight by Mark Downer’s AM Structures, a GRP and composites specialist [...]
Helly Hansen’s HP Racing Midlayer Jacket with LIFALOFT™ Delivers Sailors Warmth without the Weight Staying warm and dry during sailing regattas can mean the difference between winning and losing. Clothing that provides comfort and protection without impeding the task at hand is imperative. Helly Hansen introduces the new HP Racing Midlayer Jacket that is so [...]
1905 PILOT CUTTER SOS RESCUE PLAN BRINGS TO LIGHT 1930s PHOTOS A meeting to set up a charitable trust to rescue the 1905 Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter Frolic from the threat of the chainsaw unearthed an unexpected find when the grandson of the 1930s owner Charles Crosthwaite trekked to Cardiff to share family photo albums [...]
Moray McPhail brings years of experience and understanding to some common problems associated with the gaff rig – and, specifically, the saddle Every so often I get an email describing how a gaff saddle I've made isn't working properly – usually because it is trying to shuffle round to the wrong side of the mast, [...]
Key supplier was ‘teak kingpin’ who colluded with officials to defraud Myanmar Evidence of serious repeated violations of the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) by a trader of Myanmar teak has been submitted to German and European enforcement authorities by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). The evidence shows that multiple shipments of Myanmar teak [...]
Catching up with the beautiful Morgan Giles 43s - now sailing again as a fleet (after they were sold out of the Royal Navy in the 1980s) and being run by Classic Sail, of Chichester, West Sussex. [/fusion_youtube] See more of Classic Sail: HERE
Alec Rose, the yachtsman Grocer from Southsea who sailed around the world in Lively Lady in 1967/68 has been honoured in his home town with a blue plaque over the shop which he used to run as a greengrocer. This is said to be the place where Rose did some of the planning for his [...]
