Category: Heritage
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Moitessier – sailing into the mystic
As a true pilot of the deep range Bernard Moitessier was a philosopher sailor who famously went round the world again in 1969 in the Sunday Time Golden Globe race when he could possibly have… […]
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Cornwall on film in 1916
This (now in colour!) film shows maritime Cornwall at the height of the first world war. Clips show Looe, Polperro, St Ives (with artist!) and children climbing over the wreck of a boat. Despite conscription… […]
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Rendezvous Brest
A photo essay of the book on Brest. It covers 30 years of the Brest Festival which held every four years (but not 2020) since 1992 in Brittany. Some 2,000 vessels – from canoes to… […]
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Nelson’s seamanship
Horatio Nelson: The making of a seaman Dan Houston charts the career that began as a 12-year-old Midshipman in 1771 and ended at Trafalgar, 34 years later It seems almost brutal to us now that… […]
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Rosemary III sailing in Falmouth
Rosemary III – Fife’s 1925 creation restored at Penpol recently and now for sale with Barney Sandeman… time to start playing the lottery! And sometimes a restoration that just gets back to the original layout… […]
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Amazing boats at the world’s greatest sea festival
Tall Ships, Small Ships, craftsmanship, classic boat sailors – all brought alive in photos and captions that capture the revival of old and vintage boats during the decades since the first Brest Festival in 1992 […]
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Tall Ship inspired by ice legend
ACTIV OF LONDON Polar legend has it that the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen dreamt up the ideal Arctic ship by gazing at an olive stone writes Ben Lowings. Pressed laterally, its curves would slide its… […]
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Bruce Kirby 8 Bells
The famous yacht and dinghy designer and Canadian olympic sailor Bruce Kirby has died, aged 92. Among his many designs he drew the Laser Dinghy in 1969 since 1970 more than 215,000 Lasers have been… […]
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Millar’s Secret
In the course of researching his new biography of the yachtsman George Millar, the journalist Ben Lowings discovered the former war hero agreed to run guns into the Mediterranean. George Millar (1910-2005) was a… […]
