‘White sails enhance the beauties of Windermere’ is in the title sequence of this archive film of the annual regatta[…]
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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’.
Brest and Douarnenez, 1996
The Brest and Douarnenez Festivals take place every four years. In 2020, the Festival is postponed due to the worldwide[…]
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‘Maybird’ sets records: Fastnet, 2011 and Round Ireland, 2018
The 2020 Round Ireland Race has been postponed until August, due to the Coronovirus pandemic. Looking back a couple of[…]
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‘Clytie’ runs aground in the River Ore, 1923
‘Clytie’, a 30′ gaff cutter, was built at Woodbridge on the River Deben, Suffolk in 1922 and has been owned[…]
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Sailing races in Friesland, 1961
View this evocative silent British Pathé newsreel of a sailing contest on the Frisian Lakes in 1961. The film opens[…]
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‘Marihona’ crosses the Atlantic, 1962: a dream come true
Built in Risor, Norway, 1957 and fitted out in Bermuda, ‘Marihona’ has crossed the Atlantic several times and returned to[…]
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‘Kelpie II’: first passage, July 1902
We bring the second instalment from the Cruising Log of ‘Kelpie II’, launched in July 1902 at Greenwich and based[…]
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‘Kelpie II’ cruising log: July, 1902
We bring the first instalment from the Cruising Log of ‘Kelpie II’, launched in 1902. A Canoe Yacht, 26’ overall[…]
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Cruising to Brest: 2016
In 2016, a fleet of OGA members sailed in company from the East Coast, Netherlands and Solent to the Festival[…]
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I must go down to the seas again
During the Coronavirus lockdown, unable to go sailing, Bristol Channel OGA member, Viv Head illustrated the John Masefield poem, Sea[…]
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