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Dunkirk Little Ship lugger relaunches
Following a two- and half-year restoration and refit the beautiful historic fishing vessel Our Lizzie is due to be relaunched at The International Boatbuilding Training College, Lowestoft on Tuesday 16 October 2018. Built of pitch pine on oak frames in 1920 at Porthleven, Cornwall by W. J. Oliver & Sons, as a St Ives fishing […]
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Lively Lady in court battle
Two UK Portsmouth-based charities are about to go to court over a dispute involving one of Britain’s most famous yachts. The charity which runs Lively Lady, in which Sir Alec Rose solo-circumnavigated in 1967-8, is suing the charity which used to run the International Boatbuilding Training College in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Alan Priddy, who runs […]
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North West Roadshow, with Tom Cunliffe
The Cruising Association (CA) is organising a one-day North-West Roadshow for members and non-members on Saturday 10th November at the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. Topping the bill and rounding off a packed and informative line-up of talks is sailing journalist, author and broadcaster, Tom Cunliffe. Tom Cunliffe – ‘Ice with Everything’! The […]
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Van den Heede extends his lead
Matmut skipper passes through Hobart film gate with 1,600 mile lead over 2nd placed Mark Slats Jean-Luc Van Den Heede reached Hobart in Tasmania for the BoatShed.com–film gate collection point at 07:30 local time on Saturday October 6 to drop film and letters before heading out of Storm Bay to resume his lengthening lead […]
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Black Pearl heralds future zero emission yachts
The three deck 350ft (106.7m) sailing superyacht Black Pearl can reach speeds of 30 knots under sail thanks to her three 70-metre Dynarig unstayed carbon masts which can carry 2,900 square metres of sail – all automatically furled and unfurled through her yardarms and masts. She was launched in September 2016 and underwent extensive sea […]
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New Schooner Association
By James Boyd The grace, power and complexity of classic schooners engenders great passion in all who see these wonderful examples of naval architecture, mostly heralding from that golden age of yacht construction in the first decades of the 20th century. In recent years many of these yachts have been beautifully restored, or replicas have […]
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Tall Ships join the Small Ships
by Max Mudie. The date of this year’s Small Ships Race – for smaller British Sail Training vessels – is Saturday 6th October. This annual Cowes based event, organised by Gosport charity the Association of Sail Training Organisations (ASTO), will see more than half of the UK’s Sail Training vessels gather for a one day […]
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Tall Ship Kaskelot sold to France
The Tall Ship Kaskelot has been sold to France and sailed to St Malo last Friday to begin life as a charter vessel in French hands, she has been renamed Le Francais. A group of investors led by Bob Escoffier will exploit it through Marine Events. Kaskelot had just finished a stint as the Southampton […]
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IS SHE A LITTLE STRANGE?
Demeter at Auction. “She sails beautifully, fast, responsive, with a delightfully light touch and fine manners,” says Beccs Polden, as she shares reminiscences of this sweet 21ft canoe-sterned sloop that she last sailed in the late 1990s. Another thing that’s instantly noticeable is Demeter’s very marked resemblance to the work of Albert Strange. Although built […]
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Maritime awareness pack for schools
Press release from The Mission to Seafarers Launches First Maritime Education Pack for Primary Schools LONDON, 27th September 2018 – An education pack aimed at primary school pupils has been launched by The Mission to Seafarers (MtS), and designed to be used in the classroom to educate young children on the impact the […]