In an interview with CNN’s Mainsail, blind sailor Lucy Hodges MBE discusses how she utilises her senses to overcome her condition and in turn, win two gold medals. Born with photophobia nystagmus -- a condition that causes involuntary movement of the eyes and affects eyesight – Hodges has been sailing since she was 17, relying [...]
The sailing cobles will again be hosted at Bridlington this coming weekend 4th and 5th August with racing starting around 9am each day. The festival appears to be going from strength to strength, with interest and more boats this year than before and with a good number racing out of the harbour. The event is [...]
Sailing youth charity Oarsome Chance has a new patron in the person of Toby Marris, skipper of the 1913 Pilot Cutter Jolie Brise. Toby is Sailing Master at Dauntsey's school in Wiltshire as well as being chairman of Tall Ships International, an RYA examiner and on the board at ASTO. He joins Oarsome's other patron, [...]
A Norfolk sailmaker has found a colourful solution to save material offcuts which would otherwise be wasted. Jeckells, based in Wroxham, used leftover small pieces of brightly-coloured spinnaker nylon to make a “patchwork quilt” effect sail. Previously the company sent its scraps of sailcloth to be recycled by various companies on its behalf, to fill [...]
“After two years of hard work from all involved our goal of being able to show off the museum's collection of yachts and boats in such a historic and eclectic setting has been reached, there is still much work to do so I hope you will all spread the word… the classic boat museum is [...]
Eight bells are being rung in the sailing community for round the world yachtsman Tony Bullimore, who has died aged 79, from cancer. He was best known for surviving five days in the upturned hull of his yacht Exide Challenger when her keel fell off in the cold waters of the southern ocean in 1997, [...]
From Cowes Classics PR: It was a wrap on Friday at Cowes Classics Week, as the five day event for the nineteen classes of classic cruisers, gaffers and one design keelboats, all designed before 1978, came to an end. Lawrence Wride summed up the week for his 1967 One Tonner Sunmaid V (see above). “Perseverance [...]
Sailing clubs across the UK are being given the chance to host a Marlow Ropes Rope Show which includes talks on performance, maintenance and safety of ropes on a boat as well as a session on learning how to splice rope. And there are ten dates to win. The rope show will begin in October [...]
Nelson's fore topsail goes on display at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth for a limited time this summer. Even as the admiral lay dying, deep below decks aboard HMS Victory, during the Battle of Trafalgar on 21st October 1805, the fore topsail of his 104 gun flagship was taking a terrible [...]
