The Morecambe Fishermen’s Association provided their own lifeboats. The first was ‘Gyakhan’, a large rowing boat built in 1895, the[…]
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Category: Sailing for Pleasure
Leisure sailing is very popular in the 21st century, and there’s certainly more leisure sailing than working sail nowadays – but people have sailed for pleasure in earlier times as well, take a look at some of the fascinating archive footage and stories . . . linked with some more modern ‘tales of sail’.
Deben Cherubs are alive and well 50 years on . . .
Everson’s yard on the River Deben, Suffolk produced one of the first series production yachts on the English East Coast,[…]
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‘Moya’ races in Trieste, June 2007
Originally built as a yacht by Crossfields of Arnside in north west England, ‘Moya’ had truly luxurious accommodation reported on[…]
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Hobart to Sydney race: December 2016
We bring a report from the December, 2016 Hobart to Sydney race, another historic event sadly cancelled, for the first[…]
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Crossfield of Arnside ‘Rivers Class’ yachts
Crossfields of Arnside were prolific boatbuilders on the north west coast of England from the 1840s until 1950s. Sadly, the[…]
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Passage to Yarmouth, Norfolk
Going to Yarmouth by road or rail can often be relaxing and fast (usually from Norwich it takes no more[…]
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An autumn cruise: Llanelli to Bude, 1884
Eden Northmore Jones recounts his final cruise of 1884 in the five-tonner ‘Guess’, a 23 ft. round bilge boat, 8ft.[…]
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Are you in distress? an extract from the log of ‘Mignonette’, 1974
This remarkable extract of a rescue at sea on 31 July, 1974 is based on the log book entries of[…]
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Riding the Severn bore in a small sailing boat: May 1958 [part 2]
David Grainger continues his account of sailing a small boat ‘down Severn’ in 1958. He includes some historic detail of[…]
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Riding the Severn bore in a small sailing boat: May 1958 [part 1]
David Grainger introduces us to the challenges of sailing ‘down Severn’ as he reflects on his experience in 1958. The[…]
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