The famous Beaulieu Boat Jumble will not happen in April 2019 The Beaulieu Estate has decided not to stage the famous Boat Jumble, which has run almost every year since 1978, citing poor weather (which cancelled the event in 2012) and a decline in support reflecting the wider downturn in the fortunes of the marine [...]
On the 100th anniversary of the Armistice of WW1, Eileen Mahoney's poem In Waters Deep, conveys the loss of so many sailors killed during the conflict Eugene Damblans' illustration for the French Petit Journal shows German "barbarity" as U boat sailors shoot the fishermen of a torpedoed sardine trawler out of the rigging (May [...]
Race leader will continue after knock-down and mast damage but gets 18 hour time penalty for calling wife on satphone Matmut in unrealistically calm waters... she faces the Horn with damaged mast Poor old Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, who suffered a knockdown and mast damage (see our post below). He decided he [...]
The UK's Met Office has announced its first female Chief Executive, Professor Penelope Endersby. Professor Endersby will be starting her new post at the Met Office in December 2018. In her previous roles, she led the Cyber and Information Systems Division at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and was Acting Chief Technical Officer [...]
Susie Goodall made good use of her time in Hobart to repair her wind vane self-steering and dive below her boat to to clear barnacles clinging to the bottom of her Rustler 36 yacht DHL Starlight. Looking fit and relaxed, the 29 year old, currently in fourth place, remained at anchor for 12 hours, using [...]
It's as outlandish as a tale from a Roald Dahl book - but this Tom and the Giant Pumpkin story featured Yorkshire farmer Tom Pearcy paddling some 500m down the River Ouse through the historic city of York in a 1364lb (619kg) hollowed out pumpkin in a bid to win a Guinness World Record. Tom [...]
• 2,400 year old Greek trading vessel matches the British Museum's Siren Vase • Found in 2,000m of water • Her double rudders, tillers, mast and rowing benches intact A Greek trading vessel described as the world's oldest shipwreck has been found in the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria in [...]
Robert Richardson, a pioneer innovator in the marine industry, sadly passed away on 20th October 2018, aged 95. In a quote to the team members at Richardsons Leisure Limited the Richardson family announced: It is with deep sadness that the family wish to inform you that Mr Richardson (Bobby) has passed away. After suffering a [...]
Two RNLI lifeboats and three Coastguard Rescue Teams were called out to help search for possible survivors after a Red Funnel ferry collided with yachts in Cowes Harbour, Isle of Wight, on Sunday morning, October 21. The Contessa 32 Greylag was sunk in the collision which occurred during heavy fog. In a statement the Maritime [...]
