beverley yates – Page 2 – Sailing By: Tales from our coasts and inland waterways

Tollesbury men on the big racing yachts

The small Essex village of Tollesbury has a fascinating maritime heritage. The village sign and Parish Church window illustrate ‘Endeavour’,[…]

Île Vierge marks the south-western limit of the English Channel and is a small islet off the approach to l’Aber[…]

This archive footage from a Pathe Gazette, 1932 shows the Bishop blessing the fleet as they depart St Malo to[…]

This 10-minute film follows the history of the 216-foot tall ship, ‘C.A. Thayer’, built 1895, a little-known gem of the National Parks[…]

In this extract, W M Nixon recalls a special global circumnavigation by Tim Magennis, Dublin Bay OGA. Setting out from[…]

This silent movie from the Pathé archive opens with two girls standing on the deck of a small yacht before the[…]

This Pathé archive has evocative footage of yachts, with English commentary, racing at an international regatta in Sweden 1930. Participants[…]

As dinghy sailing became more popular in the 1930s, the Yacht Racing Association (forerunner to the RYA) published rules for[…]

This Pathé Archive brings lively footage of National 12 dinghy racing at Plymouth in 1955. The film opens with a[…]

Fritz van der Mark shares his research into the demise of a Dutch botter, which ended her days on the[…]