Category: Heritage
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Plans for the 2018 Golden Globe Race – to start from Plymouth UK
The 2018 Golden Globe Race will start from Plymouth on Saturday June 30, 2018. The Race marks the 50th anniversary of Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s victory in the Sunday Times Golden Globe solo non-stop round the… […]
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Morning Cloud Talks
Ted Heath’s old house in Salisbury is the setting for the fourth Morning Cloud Talks on 13 April with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Mike Golding and Peter Bruce relaying their sailing experiences during what is sure to… […]
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Queen of British sailing photography dies at 101
From PPL agency: Eileen Ramsay, the Queen of British yachting photography during the post war years, recorded the explosion in small boat sailing during the 1950s and 60s, capturing not only the boats but sailing… […]
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Amundsen’s Maud returns
Roald Amundsen’s ship Maud, built for his second Arctic expedition and launched 100 years ago, in June 1917, has spent the last 90 years preserved in ice, in Cambridge Bay, Canada, where she sunk after… […]
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Halcyon days – winter sailing
Winter sailing is often great, in these halcyon days before Christmas; we were out in just our jerseys yesterday, December 17, in the Heard 28 Isabel. Halcyon days are often associated with high pressure during… […]
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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… […]
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HMS Terror – Franklin’s ship found
HMS Terror is found at last! Franklin’s expedition ship – to find the Northwest Passage, which his crew abandoned in 1848 to try to reach safety after she became icebound in September 1846, has been… […]
