France – Sailing By: Tales from our coasts and inland waterways

Crossing to France: via Dover or Brighton?

Since the age of the train, we’ve crossed the Channel from Dover to Calais by steamship, ferry, hovercraft and, since[…]

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[…]

The Brest and Douarnenez Festivals coincide in 2016, as they do every four years, running from 13 – 24 July[…]

Until the 16th century, Douarnenez was a busy commercial centre exporting local cloth, but its greatest period of prosperity was[…]

In this extract East Coat OGA member, Martin Goodrich, reflects on some of his early sailing experiences, in 1967, whilst[…]

The rocky coastlines of Brittany have witnessed numerous encounters between battleships of the French, Dutch, Spanish and English. This extract[…]

William Forwell, clergyman of Dundee, had ‘Silver Cloud’ built for him by A. Burn, Montrose, in 1876 to his own[…]

This archive film from British Pathé shows French oyster fishermen preparing boats and making sail. We see the fishermen tipping[…]

Still on passage from the UK are Barry and Trevor who have crossed from Guernsey to Lézardrieux in ‘Random’. ‘Harbinger’[…]