Rendezvous Brest
A photo essay of the book on Brest. It covers 30 years of the Brest Festival which held every four years (but not 2020) since 1992 in Brittany. Some 2,000 vessels – from canoes to [...]
Red Sails film Directed by Michael Maloney
The rebuilt Thames Sailing Barge Cambria features heavily in this film, which is all about the so-called TSBs – their role in trade which has now developed into charter mainly around the waters of the [...]
All the old boats – our photo book
Tall Ships, Small Ships, craftsmanship, classic boat sailors – all brought alive in photos and captions that capture the revival of old and vintage boats during the decades since the first Brest Festival in 1992
Farewell Mr Puffin A small boat voyage to Iceland – Paul Heiney
8th July will see the launch of Paul Heiney's new book – a passage north to the Arctic circle. Billed as "An honest portrait of human life on the ocean waves and a colourful, good-humoured [...]
The Rigging Handbook – by Brion Toss
Incorporationg The Rigger's Apprentice and The Rigger's Locker "Once every few generations a writer comes along who adds to the real body of knowledge available to the ropeworking world, and here indeed is a first [...]
London Light by Jim Lawrence
A Sailorman's Story. As the age of sail as a widespread commercial activity drifts beyond memory, we increasingly have to go to the archives to find out how things were done. And so a book [...]
Ed Burnett Yacht Designs
A selection of plans, drawings and notes. Compiled by Jeremy Burnett with a foreword by Nigel Irens Ed Burnett worked with Nigel Irens on some significant designs in the late 1990s, including the Westernman modern [...]
Hand, Reef and Steer: 2nd Edition by Tom Cunliffe
An update of the standard text for gaff rig sailors of cat boats, cutters, sloops, yawls, ketches and schooners – now with updated sections on modern gaffers, replicas and the big class. This is principally [...]
The Sea Takes No Prisoners by Peter Clutterbuck
It’s often the sailing of our youth that seems later to be the most vital and exciting. We look back at the times of danger and treat them like trophy sails, safe now in the [...]