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

Charlie Barr and the ‘Atlantic’ story

The stern Scot, Charlie Barr, was arguably the best racing skipper Britain ever produced. His most famous achievement must be[…]

Sarah Adie shares some fascinating insights into her family’s involvement in the Shetland herring industry. Her great grandfather set up[…]

This ‘Instructional film’ from the Pathé Archive provides a clearly-presented overview of trawling in the 1940s, as steam began to[…]

This Pathé Archive takes us back to 1929-31 with footage of trawlers and fishing boats going out of a harbour[…]

This extract is from Tim Madge’s book ‘Royal Yachts of the World’. It includes the Queen’s rebuff during a storm[…]

9 – 10 June, 1938 finds ‘Robinetta’ sailing from Ornsay to Mallaig and through the ‘Small Isles’ of Rhum, Eigg[…]

In this first part of an extract from the 1911 cruising log of W. F. Thompson, we find him sailing[…]

‘Cruises of the Joan’ is from a delightful series, the Lodestar Library, featuring ‘interesting, the unusual, and the downright eccentric[…]

With the bad weather forecasts, most skippers have decided to head for Strangford Lough. Strong winds are forecast so ‘Step[…]

Sitting at the fire in December and thinking of next year’s sailing season we only remember the summer sunshine, so[…]