Counting down the days until Thursday, and we hear from Marion, Solent OGA Area Treasurer, that the hard-working Solent Committee members are due to leave… Read More »OGA50: the ‘big party’ in Cowes, August 2013
The OGA is heading towards Cowes for the ‘Greatest Gathering of Gaffers’ starting on Thursday 15 August, 2013. In this update we bring news from… Read More »OGA50: Converging on Cowes, August 2013
On 4, August many of the circumnavigation fleet spent a party weekend in Ramsgate with local East Coast boats on passage to the ‘big party’… Read More »OGA50: Ramsgate, August 2013
One of the shanties performed for the OGA50 anniversary celebrations in 2013 was written by cartoonist Mike Peyton, then aged 92. Mike was an East… Read More »The East Coast Old Gaffer
Whilst taking part in the OGA50 Round Britain Challenge, 2013, Solent Gaffer, Ben Collins sent the ‘Sailing By’ Editor sketches of the coastline and the… Read More »Essex sketches
East Coast boats participating in the OGA50 Round Britain Challenge are nearing completion in mid-July and gathering at Ipswich for the East Coast Jubilee Race… Read More »OGA50: East Coast Jubilee Race and Cruise, 2013
The seaside resorts of the East Coast of England had their heyday in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Small leisure boats as well… Read More »Clacton and the Gunfleet Sands
In this piece of video, compiled by Pete Warrington, there’s an interesting interview with some of the skippers who have just arrived for the OGA50… Read More »OGA50: Grimsby
By mid-July most of the OGA50 Round Britain Challenge fleet are making good progress down the north east coast of England, exploring Lindisfarne and the… Read More »OGA50: from Scotland to Whitby, 2013