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Call to all: Come and try sailing
The RYA’s Push the Boat Out (PTBO) campaign is set to return this May, with more than 350 venues across the UK offering free or low cost, sailing and windsurfing taster sessions. The national participation campaign aims to get more people sailing, windsurfing, having fun and getting active outdoors. With PTBO open days providing visitors […]
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Solent Sunbeam season starts
The 96-year-old Solent Sunbeam classic keelboat fleet has a busy racing and social schedule lined up for the coming sailing season, which started on Saturday 30th March with an afternoon race around Chichester Harbour. Based at Itchenor Sailor Club, the class offers competitive and sociable Thursday evening racing, specific weekend regattas and a number of […]
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Rescue meeting unearths rare history
1905 PILOT CUTTER SOS RESCUE PLAN BRINGS TO LIGHT 1930s PHOTOS A meeting to set up a charitable trust to rescue the 1905 Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter Frolic from the threat of the chainsaw unearthed an unexpected find when the grandson of the 1930s owner Charles Crosthwaite trekked to Cardiff to share family photo albums […]
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Artwork predicts sea level rise
An installation artwork using lines of light predicts the effect of sea level rises at an arts centre on North Uist in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides islands. The installation uses LED sensors running lines across buildings and the landscape to show how much of the land would be underwater if sea levels rise in the way […]
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CNN shelves Shirley and Mainsail
British Olympic sailor and TV presenter Shirley Robertson has announced that CNN Mainsail the programme she has fronted as part of the American broadcaster’s global sporting coverage for the past 13 years, has been shelved. “At best the future is uncertain, although the search is still fully on for a new supporter,” she says referring […]
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Princess Anne made honorary member of CA
HRH The Princess Royal accepts Honorary Membership of the Cruising Association Princess Anne has accepted an invitation to become an Honorary Member of the Cruising Association (CA), joining an elite group that includes sailing legend Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and the prolific nautical author, Rod Heikell. As an Honorary Member, The Princess Royal receives all the […]
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German trader reported for illegal teak
Key supplier was ‘teak kingpin’ who colluded with officials to defraud Myanmar Evidence of serious repeated violations of the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) by a trader of Myanmar teak has been submitted to German and European enforcement authorities by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). The evidence shows that multiple shipments of Myanmar teak […]
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The beautiful Morgan Giles 43s
Catching up with the beautiful Morgan Giles 43s – now sailing again as a fleet (after they were sold out of the Royal Navy in the 1980s) and being run by Classic Sail, of Chichester, West Sussex. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” […]
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Blue Plaque at Sir Alec Rose’s Grocery
Alec Rose, the yachtsman Grocer from Southsea who sailed around the world in Lively Lady in 1967/68 has been honoured in his home town with a blue plaque over the shop which he used to run as a greengrocer. This is said to be the place where Rose did some of the planning for his […]
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Girl who was rescued now rescues others
When she was 17 Lorraine Galvin spent two and a half hours in freezing seas after her rowing boat capsized. Today, she is an RNLI lifeboat helm, college lecturer and mum to 8-year-old Lauren who is growing up within the lifeboat family. “I bring my daughter with me to the station every evening. When my pager […]
