Guy Venables Honey rum? I had my doubts, as one does with local brews. But I risked a purchase to try out on the brig’s crew. We finished the bottle... and several more over the week Over the years, whenever I’m travelling for the magazine, I’ll ask a barman what the local hooch is and [...]
+44(0)1872 580022 - Email: Skippers@classic-sailing.co.uk How do I get ashore Captain? This might sound a bizzare question. Surely you put on your best ‘going out’ clothes and step lightly onto the pontoon or quayside?So what if you find yourself on a mooring or at anchor? How does each vessel ferry its guest crew ashore?To save [...]
Daring Dauntless takes the title at Cowes Classics Week 29 July - 02 August 2019 Cowes, UK. August 2019 - Dauntless, sailed by Richard Acland and his crew, was almost untouchable in the 14-strong Daring Class which finished competing at Cowes Classics Week today. Five first places and a throwaway third ensured victory at the [...]
Vele d’Epoca di Imperia is back annually. Entries for the 2019 edition are officially open Crew of the 1908 Fife cutter Viola celebrate Vele d’Epoca di Imperia, the most historical Italian meeting of vintage sails born in 1986, is back from the 5th to the 8th of September. The inscription for the twenty-first [...]
All our back issues are now digitised and can be downloaded (for a modest sum) from our online Shop. They were free on issuu for a while but the site became commercial and we couldn't afford to do it that way. See more of these - full contents etc in our ARCHIVE section. Some [...]
Montage of photos and video taken in Lanzarote prior to the start of the 2019 Panerai Transat Classique, which started from off the marina at Arrecife on Janaury 8th and finishes in St Kitts. And yes, that is an original miss-spelling from 1936 on the end of Coch y Bondhu's boom. See more from our [...]
Jean-Luc Van den Heede, the 73-years young French sailor leading the Golden Globe Race in his Rustler 36 yacht Matmut, rounded Cape Horn last night and is heading north east into the Atlantic at 7.5 knots. Matmut suffered damage to her rigging when the yacht was pitchpoled 3-weeks ago and organisers have been concerned [...]
by Will Stirling There are many ways to set a square sail on a sailing boat; this is one of many; simplicity is a virtue. The following method has four ropes and a halyard. Two of these ropes are sheets – which it would be difficult not to invite to the party; without the [...]
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 of recycled polyester (rPET) yarn combined with Marlow’s engineering expertise has resulted in this latest rope innovation," the company says. [...]
