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Oarsome’s new patron and canvas workshop
Sailing youth charity Oarsome Chance has a new patron in the person of Toby Marris, skipper of the 1913 Pilot Cutter Jolie Brise. Toby is Sailing Master at Dauntsey’s school in Wiltshire as well as being chairman of Tall Ships International, an RYA examiner and on the board at ASTO. He joins Oarsome’s other patron, […]
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Patchwork spinnaker made of scraps
A Norfolk sailmaker has found a colourful solution to save material offcuts which would otherwise be wasted. Jeckells, based in Wroxham, used leftover small pieces of brightly-coloured spinnaker nylon to make a “patchwork quilt” effect sail. Previously the company sent its scraps of sailcloth to be recycled by various companies on its behalf, to fill […]
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Classic Boat Museum Opens new “shed”
“After two years of hard work from all involved our goal of being able to show off the museum’s collection of yachts and boats in such a historic and eclectic setting has been reached, there is still much work to do so I hope you will all spread the word… the classic boat museum is […]
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RIP Tony Bullimore
Eight bells are being rung in the sailing community for round the world yachtsman Tony Bullimore, who has died aged 79, from cancer. He was best known for surviving five days in the upturned hull of his yacht Exide Challenger when her keel fell off in the cold waters of the southern ocean in 1997, […]
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Cowes Classics – winners
From Cowes Classics PR: It was a wrap on Friday at Cowes Classics Week, as the five day event for the nineteen classes of classic cruisers, gaffers and one design keelboats, all designed before 1978, came to an end. Lawrence Wride summed up the week for his 1967 One Tonner Sunmaid V (see above). “Perseverance […]
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Book a free Rope Show for your club
Sailing clubs across the UK are being given the chance to host a Marlow Ropes Rope Show which includes talks on performance, maintenance and safety of ropes on a boat as well as a session on learning how to splice rope. And there are ten dates to win. The rope show will begin in October […]
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HMS Victory’s fore topsail goes on display
Nelson’s fore topsail goes on display at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth for a limited time this summer. Even as the admiral lay dying, deep below decks aboard HMS Victory, during the Battle of Trafalgar on 21st October 1805, the fore topsail of his 104 gun flagship was taking a terrible […]
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Cowes Classics Week opens
Henry Bagnall and his crew were celebrating their hard fought win in the 45 strong XOD class today on the opening day of Cowes Classics Week in spectacular sunshine and perfect south westerly 15 knot breezes. Explaining how he triumphed over such a large one design fleet Henry who was racing Fury, kindly loaned by […]
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Sea salts festival was the best yet
4,000 visitors, 200 sailors, 50 traditional boats and great weather Around 4,000 people attended the Sea Salts and Sail festival, Mousehole, Cornwall, over the weekend 13th to 15th July. And more than 200 of these were sailors, who had sailed there on a variety of the 50 traditional craft which attended this unique two […]
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Two tonnes of cocaine seized from yacht
Two Dutch sailors are behind bars after trying to smuggle two tonnes of cocaine into Europe aboard a sailing ketch. The yacht was intercepted by Border Force cutter HMS Vigilant 120 nM south west of Cornwall and brought into Newlyn on Friday morning. Newlyn’s Harbourmaster closed the port while a bomb disposal team examined the […]
