Hazards and Challenges – Page 3 – Sailing By: Tales from our coasts and inland waterways

A Shetland ‘zulu’ sails south: 1963

In this extract, an East Coast member of the OGA recalls a story about his father, who purchased a 42[…]

Daniel Defoe describes this stretch of coast, from the Thames to Yarmouth Roads, as one of the ‘most dangerous and[…]

Sea shanty about a storm off the east coast of England, where many hundreds were lost from the fishing fleets,[…]

Hector Morrison (Eachainn), last survivor of the ‘Mayflower’ crew stranded on Sula Sgeir when the vessel was lost, reflects on[…]

As a newly-commissioned Aldeburgh no. 2 lifeboat in May 1940, the first ‘shout’ for ‘Lucy Lavers’ was to help in[…]

This extract is from an article by Audrey Faith Parker, ‘An eventful trip in a Tubby Little Ship’, originally published[…]

This account, contributed by a member of Erith Yacht Club from their archives has no date, but would appear[…]

The North Sea is renowned for its storms, which could spring up from nowhere, leaving few safe havens along the[…]

On passage south from Aberdeen, Scotland, there are two infamous rocky hazards off the Firths of Tay and Forth. Before[…]

In this extract from an Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, 1882-1884, we find a fascinating collection of facts and figures about[…]