An historic Swansea Council-owned boat has got a thrilling new lease of life The 110-year-old Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter Olga will provide potentially life-changing sailing voyages to people from all backgrounds. She will also spread knowledge of her own rich history and that of Swansea’s seafaring heritage as she sails around the UK. Her new [...]
The 1905 Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter Frolic is due to be cut up and destroyed in the next few days unless someone comes forward to rescue her. Frolic is lying at an island near Bergen in Norway and is in need of a total rebuild. Despite initial interest following our report HERE several efforts to [...]
Knox-Johnston on Tilman. As Tilman's books are re-released under the Lodestar imprint Britain's best-known sailor Sir Robin Knox-Johnston profiles the life of the extraordinary mountaineer sailor Bill Tilman, a high latitudes navigator whose adventurous spirit had been both tempered and fed on entering the second world war as a school leaver. Like some other [...]
