Round the Island Race in the 1960s
For a flavour of this famous race round the Isle of Wight in the 1960s, watch two archive videos from Pathe Newsreels.The annual Round the… Read More »Round the Island Race in the 1960s
Posts relating to the Solent and South Coast of England
For a flavour of this famous race round the Isle of Wight in the 1960s, watch two archive videos from Pathe Newsreels.The annual Round the… Read More »Round the Island Race in the 1960s
East Coast Gaffer, Marion Shirley shares her account of crossing the North Sea in ‘East Breeze’, to join the Netherlands OGA ‘Anniversary Cross Country Tour’,… Read More »From the Solent to Blankenberge single-handed, 2014
Kees Kooman, skipper of 18 foot ‘Snoopy’, brings a lively account with fascinating statistics of his counter-clockwise circumnavigation of Britain in 2013, taking just under… Read More »OGA50 boat: ‘Snoopy’
During the OGA50 Round Britain Challenge and Party in 2013, Julian Cable worked with MarineTraffic, skippers and interested ‘followers of the fleet’ to maintain a… Read More »OGA50: how did tracking the fleet work in 2013?
In this extract, we hear from Tim and Liz Dodwell about their inspiration for undertaking the OGA50 Round Britain Challenge in 2013 and glimpse some… Read More »OGA50 boat: ‘High Barbaree’
Single-handed skipper of the 19 ft. shrimper ‘Nutmeg’, Viv Head, shares a challenging experience coming out of Portsmouth. Against a spring tide and with insufficient… Read More »OGA50: A close encounter, August 2013
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
After the Hamble party and parade of sail before HRH Prince Michael of Kent, the OGA Round Britain fleet set sail from the Solent on… Read More »OGA50: fleet departs the Hamble, May 2013