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Cowes Spring Classics
Cowes Spring Classics begins tomorrow May 11. This is a new regatta for wooden classics designed before 1970. The regatta runs til Sunday 13 May and will be based at Shepards Wharf Marina. The organisers, Mary Scott-Jackson of MSJ Events and Martin Nott, a local wooden boat builder, felt that it would be a welcome addition to the […]
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Man dies after fishing boat capsizes off Plymouth
A man died after his fishing boat capsized on Monday close to Mountbatten breakwater in full view of bank holiday visitors to a Plymouth beach. According to the Marine Accident and Investigation Branch (MAIB) the 52-year-old was thrown into the sea off Plymouth when his 20ft (6.1m) registered fishing vessel, Laura Jane, ran into trouble […]
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Royal Navy Museum’s new artefacts
Artefacts from HMS Invincible that have lain on the seabed floor for over 200 years have been donated to a museum on the eve of a new dive season on the celebrated Solent wreck site. A handful of everyday artefacts including shoes, tankard and grapeshot have been gifted to The National Museum of the Royal […]
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New major exhibition marks 250 years since James Cook set sail from Plymouth
From the British Library: New major exhibition marks 250 years since James Cook’s ship Endeavour set sail from Plymouth Featuring original maps, artworks and journals alongside contemporary films, the exhibition allows visitors to follow the course of his voyages Accompanying website and events programme further explore the different perspectives and competing narratives surrounding the voyages Marking 250 […]
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Present your story at the Woodstock for Classic Yacht enthusiasts
Designers, builders, restorers, owners and sailors of classic yachts are being invited to suggest their own ideas for the Eighth Classic Yacht Symposium, to be held next spring at the Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, Rhode Island, USA. To be held in partnership in 2019 together with the Classic Yacht Owner’s Association and the museum, […]
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Hurricane names will never be used again
At its meeting in Martinique earlier this month the World Meteorological Society retired the storm names Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate from being used for Atlantic Hurricane names in future. Storm names are normally reused every six years, but if a storm is so destructive that a future use of its name is deemed insensitive, […]
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Antigua winds up – gig racing tomorrow…
From Race Reporter Jan Hein On the fourth and final race of the 2018 ACYR, boats in the lead set off hoping to hold it, while the rest of the fleet went out in full battle mode. Weather predictions for light winds were replaced with a sky of cranky squalls and rain. Coupled with the […]
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Help English Rose get to China
A HEARTFELT JustGiving crowdfunding campaign has been launched to help raise the funds to allow an inspirational local teenager compete in the Topper World Championships, at Longcheer Yacht Club, in China, this August. Fourteen-year-old Rose Edmonds, from Great Bircham, King’s Lynn in Norfolk, has been given the chance to join the GB Sailing Squad heading […]
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Antigua Classics begins with single-handed race in 20 knot breeze
ACYR Thursday 19 4 18: The energy in Falmouth Harbour spiked as each entry sailed in for the start of the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta. 70’ Vendia and 42’ Free in St. Barth from Grenada; 86’ Ticonderoga from St. Barths; 100’ Ruth from Barbados; and the 141’ Schooner Columbia, made a last minute, ten-day dash […]
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Sailor dies after 29ft yacht falls on top of him
A yachtsman was crushed to death yesterday after his 29ft Westerly GK29 fell on top of him in the yard, at Weymouth Sailing Club. Kevin Keeler, 56, a company director who ran locally based software company Software Dimensions Ltd, died at the scene despite paramedics efforts to revive him. He had taken his 1980 glassfibre […]