Category: Heritage
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Tally Ho in the 1927 Fastnet
From our story in the current issue of Tally Ho – her log from winning the 1927 Fastnet and details of the beginning of her restoration with Leo Goolden: “Wet manilla halyards and sheets swell… […]
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Nelson’s seamanship
Horatio Nelson: The making of a seaman Dan Houston charts the career that began as a 12-year-old Midshipman in 1771 and ended at Trafalgar, 34 years later It seems almost brutal to us now that… […]
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RIP Paul Elvstrom 1928 – 2016
Four times Olympic gold medal winner and all round sailing legend Paul Elvstrom has died, at his home in Denmark aged 88. Elvstrom was a lifelong sailor – and raced competitively for 60 years. He was… […]
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A great sailor, by a great sailor
Knox-Johnston on Tilman. As Tilman’s books are re-released under the Lodestar imprint Britain’s best-known sailor Sir Robin Knox-Johnston profiles the life of the extraordinary mountaineer sailor Bill Tilman, a high latitudes navigator whose adventurous… […]