Inspirational winter passage by Erik Aanderaa, a true latter-day Viking, sailing his Contessa 35 Tessie from Haugasund in Norway to the three-day Up Helly Aa winter Viking festival at Lerwick in Shetland (in 30 hrs!) on 29 January this year. In temperatures are around 1ºC Erik gets onto the foredeck (sans harness tut-tut) to tell [...]
The MyState Bank Australian Wooden Boat Festival takes place in biannually in Hobart in early February. Chris Kelly (R) flew to Hobart from Sydney for the 2019 festival and sent us this report. The 2019 MyState Bank Australian Wooden Boat Festival, which took place in Hobart over the weekend of 8‑11 February, has concluded. [...]
Sailing clockwise around the UK in a 1902 yacht Returning to where Sybil was built Visiting Barra, St Kilda and Scapa Flow The route... click on images to enlarge We took the Old Girl for a spin... By Cornelius van Rijckevorsel We had planned this trip to attend the Fife Regatta, but [...]
It’s an exciting time to announce that the 45ft LOA Bristol Pilot Cutter, Polly Agatha, has passed into new hands with a new Master at the helm, writes Kim Hartley skipper and owner of the replica pilot cutter since her launch in 2007. Mark Boardman has now bought her and she will be based out [...]
There's a cultural move towards sharing that is just beginning to take hold. The idea is that from quite soon, a decade some say, we won't own a car, but like bike racks in municipal spaces we'll track one down on our smart phone and unlock it, drive it and pay for it – all [...]
Montage of photos and video taken in Lanzarote prior to the start of the 2019 Panerai Transat Classique, which started from off the marina at Arrecife on Janaury 8th and finishes in St Kitts. And yes, that is an original miss-spelling from 1936 on the end of Coch y Bondhu's boom. See more from our [...]
The Shannon is the newest class of lifeboat developed by the RNLI. Since 2013 14 (out of a planned 50) have been built with ten serving at stations and four in reserve. With a crew of six, the 44ft 7in (13.6m) LOA boats have a maximum capacity for 79 survivors and a 250 nautical mile [...]
Nine regattas lose sponsorship Flagship Eilean will continue Organisers working hard to find a new sponsor Organisers of classic sailing regattas are busy trying to find new sponsors after the Italian watch specialist Panerai announced it would cease sponsoring the classic yacht circuit in 2019. Panerai was the major sponsor for nine regattas in America [...]
The joy of tiny traditional model sailing boats With a traditional outrigger design and colurful sails the model jongs have been raced For centuries by the Malays in South East Asia. Miniatures of the local outrigger canoes the sport for these wooden model yachts is becoming keen again after a period when it was dying [...]
