Messing about in boats
It's been great to sail aboard the 1984 28ft Heard cutter Isabel in the Sussex Yacht Club pursuit series of races this year. Owner Aidan Tuckett, a former wooden boat sailor, recently bought the boat and has been enjoying the sometime novelty of being able to sail whenever he likes, with a well found GRP [...]
This is surely the best version of Dolphins - which Folk legend Fred Neil wrote and recorded in 1966 [/fusion_youtube] The song was released as a single and also on Neil's second eponymous album in 1967, along with Everybody's Talkin' which was made into a global hit by Harry Nilsson in 1970 [...]
Doodles and the odd line of inspiration... to be added-to, occasionally. Click on images to enlarge them. And do feel free to share any of these! [...]
by Sarah Johnson In 1923 when she was launched, the yachting media noted, ‘The new Solent Sunbeam One Design Class, from the board of Messrs Woodnutt of St Helens Isle of Wight, promises to be one of the best which has ever been produced. The design shows a powerful yet sweet lined little vessel [...]
The third Hamble Classics Regatta hosted by the Royal Southern Yacht Club, over the weekend of 15-16 September, was another stunning success with 75 classic and spirit of tradition yachts entered for two days of racing in sunshine and breeze. Building on the success of the two previous regattas, there were entries from as far [...]
A Kenyan dhow made entirely of recycled plastic is due to be launched on Saturday September 15 Environmentalist and master dhow builder Captain Ali Skanda has completed the dhow made entirely from plastic waste that has washed up around his home on the Kenyan coast. In June 2016 environmentalists and Ali Skanda decided to [...]
Historic Priscilla Charter A Tonic For 92-Year-Old Roy A favourable window in the weather saw 92-year-old Roy Loram of Sydney Street, Brightlingsea, proudly become the first person to charter the recently restored Colne fishing smack which was launched by the Duchess of Wessex last year. Roy, who went to sea at 17 in the merchant [...]
Strongman swimmer Ross Edgley and sailor Matt Knight are on their way to making Ross the first man to swim around the British Isles. The pair set off from Margate on May 30 with the aim to complete 2,000 miles by the end of the summer. Today, 65 days in, they are at Tobermory on [...]
4,000 visitors, 200 sailors, 50 traditional boats and great weather Around 4,000 people attended the Sea Salts and Sail festival, Mousehole, Cornwall, over the weekend 13th to 15th July. And more than 200 of these were sailors, who had sailed there on a variety of the 50 traditional craft which attended this unique two [...]
