Category: Our Stories

  • Books for Christmas

    Books for Christmas

    Buying a good book for a friend or loved one? We have a great spread of this season’s best nautical books in our December-January issue… From a great book of knots to a compendium of… […]

  • A great sailor, by a great sailor

    A great sailor, by a great sailor

    Knox-Johnston on Tilman.   As Tilman’s books are re-released under the Lodestar imprint Britain’s best-known sailor Sir Robin Knox-Johnston profiles  the life of the extraordinary mountaineer sailor Bill Tilman, a high latitudes navigator whose adventurous… […]

  • Sailing an Achilles 24 in Scottish waters

    Sailing an Achilles 24 in Scottish waters

    Join Rob Bashford as he sails his Achilles 24 through the Caledonian Canal and up the western coast of Scotland in a bid to go “over the top”.  Rob gives us a basic lesson in… […]

  • Lucy L Ford and her “dinghy experience”

    Lucy L Ford and her “dinghy experience”

    We have some great writers on Classic Sailor. And here is a great piece, from Lucy L Ford, on the pitfalls of going ashore in the dinghy: The ‘dinghy experience’ for the ungainly housewife has… […]

  • Lloyd’s Registers of Yachts – all of them, on one USB

    Lloyd’s Registers of Yachts – all of them, on one USB

    As reported in CS, the monumental task of converting the 94 volumes of Lloyd’s Register of Yachts has been completed and compiled on a memory stick by the Association of Yachting Historians. And now (just… […]

  • Dave Selby for Yachtsman of the Year!

    Dave Selby for Yachtsman of the Year!

    Dave Selby – who is on the cover of the October-November issue of Classic Sailor (Out Oct 20), wants us to vote for him as the Yachtsman of the Year. NOMINATE SAILING-FOR-ALL CAMPAIGNER.  (From a… […]

  • A trophy sail can be as much a great experience as learning a lesson from the sea, the hard way

    A trophy sail can be as much a great experience as learning a lesson from the sea, the hard way

    It’s often after an event at sea that you can look back with clear perspective and see things in the light of personal experience. We got caught out in a high gale in the Arctic… […]

  • A letter of protest…

    A letter of protest…

    “What happened to “Enterprise” in Imperia” Coming ashore after Sunday´s cancelled race we were informed that we had been DSQ for the whole regatta due to the fact that our skipper by mistake handed in… […]

  • Keep Sailing This Winter.

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