Category: Our Stories
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Sugar my deck
Sugar Shaken (Not Stirred) on Mylor’s Sweetest Spirit… Mylor Yacht Harbour’s master painter Steve “Beefy” Burley has seen just about everything in more than four decades on the job – but sprinkling granulated sugar onto… […]
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Seasickness – and NASA’s cure
By Ian Galletti Seasickness ceased to be a problem for me, as a skipper, during the late 1960s. I was driving down to the Hamble to skipper one of the Royal Air Force’s offshore racing… […]
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Ed Burnett Yacht Designs
A selection of plans, drawings and notes. Compiled by Jeremy Burnett with a foreword by Nigel Irens Ed Burnett worked with Nigel Irens on some significant designs in the late 1990s, including the Westernman modern… […]
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Online archive for the 6-M class
3 October 2019 – London, England. The International Six Metre Class Association (ISMA) is delighted to announce the launch of a ground breaking online class archive at 6metrearchive.org. The Six Metre Class has a long… […]
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Hamble Classics – flying high at the RAF Yacht Club
Report by Jonty Sherwill, Photos by Rick Tomlinson. The fourth Hamble Classics Regatta hosted this year by the Royal Air Force Yacht Club (20-22 September) was another major success with 68 entries across 10 classes and… […]
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The building of Ceiba’s stem
Follow the progress of Ceiba‘s Stem as Lynx Guimond, co-Founder & Technical Lead takes you through the steps. Be sure to notice the technical overlay, which highlights the exact piece that Lynx is working on,… […]
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Ceiba’s stem goes up
In this film Project founders, Danielle Doggett and Lynx Guimond, explain the stem raising process. The wood used for constructing the stem – which is the forward-most curve of the hull, is the well-known shipbuilding… […]
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60 years since Wharram crossed Atlantic
It’s sixty years since James Wharram and his two German girlfriends crossed the Atlantic Ocean from West to East aboard the 40ft catamaran Rongo. The boat was designed and built in the West Indies after the… […]
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Cornish Maritime History Day 2019
The eighth one-day programme dedicated to the history of maritime Cornwall is being held at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, in Falmouth, on Saturday, 5th October 2019. Researchers, whether in universities or based at home,… […]
