Maritime Heritage and famous sailors
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 and shorten when wet. Everything on Tally Hoʼs deck was wet after days of rain. The heavy canvas mainsail went [...]
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 children aged 12 or sometimes even younger could be sent to sea in a first rate man of war. These [...]
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 still just 20 when he won gold at the London Olympics in 1948 in the new Fairey Firefly class. He [...]
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 spirit had been both tempered and fed on entering the second world war as a school leaver. Like some other [...]
