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Uku wins 3rd and Don pulls out of 2022
Golden Globe Race – Les Sables D’Olonne: Uku Randmaa crossed the finish line at 0900 GMT on Sunday March 10, securing his place as the third to finish in the gruelling round the world solo sailing marathon where only 13 out of the 18 yachts which started were forced to retire through gear failure or […]
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Maidens win
As the film of Maiden opened in selected cinemas across the UK Tracy Edwards was being honoured as the joint winner of the Yachtsman of the Year trophy, together with Nikki Henderson. And in a hat-trick for women and sailing the Young Sailor of the Year Award also went to a girl – 15-year-old Emily […]
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Restoring Tally Ho talk with Leo Goolden
The Royal Ocean Racing Club is hosting a talk by Leo Gooden who is a couple of years into restoring his Albert Strange 1927 Fastnet winning cutter Tally Ho Leo’s talk will be on Tue, 23 April 2019 from 19:00 – 22:00 BST Built in 1910 Tally Ho is Albert Strange’s largest surviving yacht, and […]
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Maiden – How Tracy Edwards broke the women-at-sea myth
Documentary 2018 Dir: Alex Holmes 93 mins Maiden opens in UK cinemas on Friday 8th March This is a truly inspirational film. It takes us back a bit, though not too far, to 1989 and the Round the World Whitbread – a gruelling nine-month yacht race presided over by lantern-jawed skippers and winch-grinding gorillamen, testosterone […]
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Whiskey fan offers to save Golden Globe Yacht in return for the barrel aboard
American philanthropist steps in to support salvage of Gregor McGuckin’s yacht. An American philanthropist with a taste for Irish whiskey has stepped in to support the salvage operation to recover Gregor McGuckin’s yacht Hanley Energy Endurance drifting some 1,200 miles west of Perth, Australia. Speaking from Fremantle overnight, American tug boat skipper Cody Cordwainer, who […]
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First frame goes up on eco cargo ship
The team at Sail Cargo, building a carbon negative marine freight 155ft (47m) timber three mast ship in the jungle in Costa Rica, has reached a major milestone with the raising of the first frame. The keel had been laid, complete, by January 8 and the staging around it to take the frames needed completing […]
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City Of Adelaide – forced to move
Government paid A$850,000 to move her (from Scotland to Oz) and now seems to have lost interest… South Australian Transport Minister Stephan Knoll has given the owners of the 1864 wooden clipper ship City of Adelaide until March to move her from Dock One to another part of the harbour known as “Dock 2” […]
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Eight Bells – Paul Gelder
Paul Gelder, who was editor of Yachting Monthly between 2002 and 2012, died on 13 February 2019, just a week before his 72nd birthday. He had been suffering from cancer. Paul first joined Yachting Monthly as features editor in 1990, a position that he held until his promotion to editor. He had previously been editor of […]
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PHOTOGRAPHER DONATES PRIZE TO CHARITY
AN AWARD winning Brixham-based photographer has donated his £300 prize to the Trinity Sailing Foundation. [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=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Peter Hunt — who has a large following on Facebook with his heritage vessel photography — […]
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Corruption behind Global trade in Burma’s stolen teak
CRIME AND CORRUPTION OF MYANMAR’S ILLEGAL TEAK TRADE GOES TO THE HEART OF GOVERNMENT BANGKOK: For three decades, the multi-million dollar international trade in Burmese teak has been riddled with crime and high-level corruption, driving conflict and human rights abuses in Myanmar. Now, a two-year undercover investigation by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) […]
