Mooring line made of recycled plastic bottles
Marlow Ropes is launching a mooring rope made using 100% recycled plastic. Blue Ocean Dockline, is the first ‘technically better’ premium dockline rope manufactured using yarns wholly made from plastic bottles. "The development and production [...]
RIP Jeremy Lines – C&N’s archivist
Jeremy Lines, the prominent yachting archivist for Camper and Nicholson, where he was the chief designer for many years has died in Gosport aged 88. Jeremy was a well respected member of the Association of [...]
Antigua promises more challenging racing
Introducing windward starts and new courses to make sure that the racing is both safer and more challenging are the aims of the new steering committee for the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, annoucned this week. [...]
Maiden stops in Plymouth
Tracy Edwards' restored maxi yacht Maiden set off on her 54,000 mile round-the-world voyage promoting education for girls last week, but has put into Plymouth for repairs. Maiden had seen her voyage delayed by several weeks [...]
Sir David Attenborough receives Maritime Fellowship Award
First Sea Lord honours creativity and journalism at the 2018 Maritime Media Awards Sir David Attenborough, the well-known broadcaster and naturalist has won the prestigious Maritime Fellowship Award for raising public awareness of how [...]
Captain Oates’ yacht in WW1 centenary parade
Captain Oates’ former yacht Saunterer is joining other century old classic yachts in Dartmouth on Sunday, 11 November 2018 for a short parade on the River Dart to mark the centenary of the end of [...]
British wooden dinghy shortlisted for award
Peter Newbery-Thornton of Devon Wooden Boats is a finalist for the Dinghy of the Year Award for his new Dash dinghy, built in wood as a high performance single handed sailer at his yard in [...]
Brexit and going foreign
The RYA and British Marine, the two largest leisure marine sector member organisations in the UK, have been working closely together to seek and obtain greater clarification as regards the free movement of pleasure craft [...]
Build your own sea chest
Who wouldn't want to own a classic sailor's sea chest - especially if you'd built it yourself. A course is being run which allows participants to do just that - at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime [...]
Turner goes on show at Mystic
An exhibition of the watercolours of JMW Turner has just opened at Mystic Seaport museum in Connecticut. In partnership with Tate-London, from October, 2019, to February 23, 2020, Mystic Seaport Museum presents J.M.W. Turner: Watercolors [...]
Some news in brief
• UK America's Cup challenge Britannia launches • British Olympic sailing team for Tokyo 2020 announced • More wind farms • Moving a 1700s house... by barge October 4, Portsmouth UK: Sir Ben Ainslie’s [...]
Urgent Brexit update to all boatbuilders who export to the EU
From British Marine. In the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal, UK manufacturers will be required to obtain a new Manufacturers Identity Code (MIC) from one of the remaining 27 European [...]