The team at Sail Cargo, building a carbon negative marine freight 155ft (47m) timber three mast ship in the jungle in Costa Rica, has reached a major milestone with the raising of the first frame. The keel had been laid, complete, by January 8 and the staging around it to take the frames needed completing [...]
Government paid A$850,000 to move her (from Scotland to Oz) and now seems to have lost interest... South Australian Transport Minister Stephan Knoll has given the owners of the 1864 wooden clipper ship City of Adelaide until March to move her from Dock One to another part of the harbour known as "Dock 2" [...]
Paul Gelder, who was editor of Yachting Monthly between 2002 and 2012, died on 13 February 2019, just a week before his 72nd birthday. He had been suffering from cancer. Paul first joined Yachting Monthly as features editor in 1990, a position that he held until his promotion to editor. He had previously been editor of [...]
AN AWARD winning Brixham-based photographer has donated his £300 prize to the Trinity Sailing Foundation. Peter Hunt and Ben Wheatley Peter Hunt — who has a large following on Facebook with his heritage vessel photography — won a top prize at the National Historic Ships Photographic Competition. Mr Hunt was awarded a £300 [...]
CRIME AND CORRUPTION OF MYANMAR’S ILLEGAL TEAK TRADE GOES TO THE HEART OF GOVERNMENT BANGKOK: For three decades, the multi-million dollar international trade in Burmese teak has been riddled with crime and high-level corruption, driving conflict and human rights abuses in Myanmar. Now, a two-year undercover investigation by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) [...]
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has released new scientific data, that links exposure to mild steel welding fumes with possible causes of lung and kidney cancer. The Workplace Health Expert Committee, part of the UK Health and Safety Executive, have now endorsed re-classifying mild steel welding fumes as carcinogenic to humans. The Health [...]
The RYA's club conferences are looking at ways of attracting younger sailors. While sailors aged 55+ are maintaining an interest in the sport, the numbers of younger sailors are between 44% and 64% down in the last 15 years (see below). So perhaps with this in mind numbers were up at the regional series of [...]
Ten cadets from Weir Quay Sailing Club spent their Saturday at Morrison’s supermarket, in Tavistock, packing bags to raise funds for their forthcoming trip on the historic 1892 Brixham Trawler Leader. The vessel belongs to the Trinity Sailing Foundation and the charity takes disadvantaged young people, from across the UK, on residential sail training voyages. [...]
Fife's designs to return to the Clyde A fifth instalment of the prestigious and idiosyncratic Fife Regatta is being planned for June next year. Starting from Largs marina close to the heritage village of Fairlie where the three generations of Wm Fife built their famous boats, the regatta will follow a similar format to the [...]
