Posts relating to the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America
Sit down and watch this full length video, transferred from the original 16mm colour movie tapes of a two-year circumnavigation undertaken in 1965. Five young… Read More »‘Sandefjord’ her voyage around the world: 1965
Tales of Cornish smugglers sit alongside those of notorious highwaymen and outlaws throughout England’s history of crime and punishment. A certain folk hero status may… Read More »Smuggling on the Cornish coasts
Where there are isolated coasts, there has always been smuggling. In this post we bring a couple of smugglers’ tales in poetry and film. Where… Read More »Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by!
Watch this excellent archive footage from the America’s Cup heyday, 1934, entitled “THE AMERICA’S CUP – Rainbow (defender) and Endeavour (challenger) in final trails.” This… Read More »The America’s Cup
Alasdair Simpson brings us the second part of this detailed history of the remarkable story of ‘Ziska’, a Morecambe Bay Prawner who celebrates her 120th… Read More »‘Ziska’: from Whitby to Alaska
We bring a remarkable story about ‘Ziska’, a 116-year old yacht built by Crossfields of Arnside, England in 1903. In 2019 she completed the Race… Read More »Team ‘Ziska’: Race to Alaska, June 2019
Built in Risor, Norway, 1957 and fitted out in Bermuda, ‘Marihona’ has crossed the Atlantic several times and returned to Norway in 2018 for a… Read More »‘Marihona’: a ship to cross the Atlantic
This post tells of a remarkable mid-Atlantic rendezvous in 2015. It is an extract from the log of 45′ gaff ketch ‘Zeb’, skippered by Solent… Read More »A mid-Atlantic encounter
This extract includes a link to a video covering Charlie Barr’s move from Scotland to the US. The stern Scot was arguably the best racing… Read More »Charlie Barr and the ‘Atlantic’ story