Video showing a race(!) between a Sparkman and Stephens quarter ton class design from the 1970s - the Blue Bird 25 vs a traditional Nordic Folkboat, conceived as the result of a design competition run by the Scandinavian Yacht Racing Union in 1942, and finished by Tord Sunden. The Folkboat is clearly the faster design [...]
Susie Goodall made good use of her time in Hobart to repair her wind vane self-steering and dive below her boat to to clear barnacles clinging to the bottom of her Rustler 36 yacht DHL Starlight. Looking fit and relaxed, the 29 year old, currently in fourth place, remained at anchor for 12 hours, using [...]
Update Tuesday Oct 23: French solo yachtsman Loïc Lepage was successfully transferred from his dismasted yacht Laaland by the Japanese bulk carrier Shiosai at 00:53 UTC Monday. The rescue, which took place in the South Indian Ocean some 670 miles SW of Perth Western Australia, commenced shortly after first light once the Australian P-8A [...]
Setting a watersail is something you can do in light airs to give you that extra half knot of speed. Typically watersails hang below the boom of a fore and aft sailing vessel, and mostly, on yachts, they are old jibs, or even the spare number two or three where you attach the tack to [...]
Matmut skipper passes through Hobart film gate with 1,600 mile lead over 2nd placed Mark Slats Jean-Luc Van Den Heede reached Hobart in Tasmania for the BoatShed.com–film gate collection point at 07:30 local time on Saturday October 6 to drop film and letters before heading out of Storm Bay to resume his lengthening lead [...]
The British Coatings Federation’s Marine Coatings Group (MCG) remains concerned that there is some confusion within the UK leisure boat industry regarding the current and future availability of antifouling paints for protecting yachts and boats. This note is intended to provide clarity on the key legislation currently affecting antifouling paints (the Biocidal Products Regulation (EU) [...]
The incomparable Patna After restoring the 59ft Chas Nicholson Victorian yacht Marigold (and a few other projects) in the 1990s, Greg Powlesland acquired and restored Patna - an exquisite C&N yacht from 1920. This video is from 2015 at the Puig Classics in Barcelona. [/fusion_youtube]https://youtu.be/hzHMwimnJck Greg's status as a restorer of fine [...]
It's been bad news for the Golden Globe sailors as two of the leading boats were rolled and dismasted 40 nM apart in a storm on Friday. Gregor McGuckin and Abhilash Tomy have lost their boats and their dream of successfully competing in and completing this race - which is so tough that it belies [...]
Shipbuilding, and yachtbuilding, are long gone from the Clyde, and the former yards along Glasgow’s waterfront have been replaced with shiny concert and conference venues and the like. But there are still active and lively links with the city’s maritime past. Known locally just as ‘The Tall Ship’, the 245ft, three-masted barque Glenlee, the last [...]
