Category: News

  • Dunkirk Little Ship lugger relaunches

    Dunkirk Little Ship lugger relaunches

    Following a two- and half-year restoration and refit the beautiful historic fishing vessel Our Lizzie is due to be relaunched at The International Boatbuilding Training College, Lowestoft on Tuesday 16 October 2018. Built of pitch… […]

  • Lively Lady in court battle

    Lively Lady in court battle

    Two UK Portsmouth-based charities are about to go to court over a dispute involving one of Britain’s most famous yachts. The charity which runs Lively Lady, in which Sir Alec Rose solo-circumnavigated in 1967-8, is… […]

  • North West Roadshow, with Tom Cunliffe

    North West Roadshow, with Tom Cunliffe

    The Cruising Association (CA) is organising a one-day North-West Roadshow for members and non-members on Saturday 10th November at the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. Topping the bill and rounding off a packed… […]

  • Van den Heede extends his lead

    Van den Heede extends his lead

        Matmut skipper passes through Hobart film gate with 1,600 mile lead over 2nd placed Mark Slats Jean-Luc Van Den Heede reached Hobart in Tasmania for the BoatShed.com–film gate collection point at 07:30 local time… […]

  • Black Pearl heralds future zero emission yachts

    Black Pearl heralds future zero emission yachts

    The three deck 350ft (106.7m) sailing superyacht Black Pearl can reach speeds of 30 knots under sail thanks to her three 70-metre Dynarig unstayed carbon masts which can carry 2,900 square metres of sail –… […]

  • New Schooner Association

    New Schooner Association

     By James Boyd  The grace, power and complexity of classic schooners engenders great passion in all who see these wonderful examples of naval architecture, mostly heralding from that golden age of yacht construction in the… […]

  • Tall Ships join the Small Ships

    Tall Ships join the Small Ships

    by Max Mudie. The date of this year’s Small Ships Race – for smaller British Sail Training vessels – is Saturday 6th October. This annual Cowes based event, organised by Gosport charity the Association of… […]

  • Tall Ship Kaskelot sold to France

    Tall Ship Kaskelot sold to France

    The Tall Ship Kaskelot has been sold to France and sailed to St Malo last Friday to begin life as a charter vessel in French hands, she has been renamed Le Francais. A group of… […]

  • IS SHE A LITTLE STRANGE?

    IS SHE A LITTLE STRANGE?

    Demeter at Auction.   “She sails beautifully, fast, responsive, with a delightfully light touch and fine manners,” says Beccs Polden, as she shares reminiscences of this sweet 21ft canoe-sterned sloop that she last sailed in the… […]