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Luke Powell Builds again
Boatbuilder Luke Powell, widely credited as the father of the modern pilot cutters, is about to start building again. Luke has found a 68ft pilot vessel to recreate for sea-training purposes, and will build her with a team at a riverside site near Truro. The first thing is to build the shed, and our image, […]
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Beached yacht
A lone sailor had to endure the loss of his floating home when his yacht got into difficulty and ended up on a Norfolk beach, writes Maurice Gray. John Favell had acquired the 43ft Mithril as a liveaboard, but sailing south from Hull to the Thames he suffered engine trouble and had to abandon his […]
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Dec 6 2016: 2018 Golden Globe Race Press conference at the Paris Nautique Exhibition. Golden Globe Race skippers attending the Presentation on stage: Left to right: Loïc Lepage (60) France, Gregor McGuckin (30) Ireland, Jean-Luc van den Heede (71) France, Carl Huber (56) USA, Mark Sinclair (58) Australia, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston (UK) winner of the […]
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Chainlocker closes for five month refit
Falmouth’s famous Chain Locker pub closes today for a five month refit. The St Austell Brewery-owned establishment needs major renovation and redevelopment and will not re-open until Easter 2017. Locals, many of them sailors, are understandably distraught – for some the situation is not so far from being made homeless! But the works are necessary, […]
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Yacht is dismasted in collision with container ship
From a release by the Maritime Executive The UK’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) reported Sunday that a yacht was dismasted in a collision with a container ship off Ramsgate. The Ramsgate Lifeboat center launched on Sunday morning to render aid to a small single-handed yacht which had collided with a box ship 20 nm […]
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Señor Nardi and his Nods…
One of our best regular features covers the great number of glassfibre classics that are out there. It’s written by Federico Nardi, of Cantiere Navale dell’Argentario, in Italy and he knows his boats! (Translation is by the photographer James Robinson Taylor.) We’ve done 12 of them now and there are more to come. One of […]
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Martyn Heighton, director of National Historic Ships, dies.
We are very sad to hear that Martyn Heighton, the charismatic director and chair of National Historic Ships, has died. Martyn was involved in setting up the NHS – an over-arching body which has brought funding, expertise, knowledge and value to Britain’s disparate fleet of old boats. He is said to have died in his […]
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Barges in the Pool of London
Nine Thames Sailing barges gathered to sail through Tower Bridge and into the Pool of London, in an event being called the Hit Parade. Seeing this many barges together upriver is quite rare – though once they would have been a common sight, with thousands registered to the London River and around the ports of […]
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Apprentices learning leadership skills
A team of apprentices from the construction company Balfour Beatty tested their skills with a weekend of water-based activities with a sailing charity. Emerging Talent apprentices visited Turn to Starboard in Falmouth and set sail on board the Spirit of Falmouth, where they adopted the role of crew members to learn leadership skills. The 11-strong […]
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Couta Boats
The famous workboats of Australia – the Couta boats – are featured in the current (CS12) issue of Classic Sailor with a good argument as to why they make the perfect daysailers. As a good example of how seriously the Ozzies take their sailing we feature their prime minister Malcolm Turnbull at the helm of […]
