Nights at Brest
Late at night at the Brest festival... a short photo essay by Nigel Pert to the music of Alan Špiljak (Stars above – from the Silverlight album) The photos [...]
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 [...]
RIP James Lawrence: a sailorman in stitches
When the last six working Thames sailing barges doused their canvas for the final time in 1963 it was the end of an era, but Jim Lawrence survived. Dan Houston first met him in 1999 [...]
Red Sails film Directed by Michael Maloney
The rebuilt Thames Sailing Barge Cambria features heavily in this film, which is all about the so-called TSBs – their role in trade which has now developed into charter mainly around the waters of the [...]
Our digital archive
All our back issues are now digitised and can be downloaded (for a modest sum) from our online Shop. They were free on issuu for a while but the site became commercial and we couldn't [...]
Small boats trading by sail
By Mike Smylie IMAGINE A FLEET OF SMALL EX-FISHING BOATS TRADING BY SAIL AROUND THE PORTS OF WALES, BRINGING IN GOODS FROM NORTHERN FRANCE & THE IBERIAN PENINSULA... That sounds like a dream but dreams [...]