‘Cruises of the Joan’ is from a delightful series, the Lodestar Library, featuring ‘interesting, the unusual, and the downright eccentric[…]
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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’.
‘Silver Cloud’ departs Dundee for France: 1876
William Forwell, clergyman of Dundee, had ‘Silver Cloud’ built for him by A. Burn, Montrose, in 1876 to his own[…]
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Cruise of the ‘Joan’: Caledonian Canal, 1927
‘Cruises of the Joan’ is from a delightful series, the Lodestar Library, featuring ‘interesting, the unusual, and the downright eccentric[…]
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‘Witch’ returns to her roots: June 2013
During the OGA Round Britain Challenge, the skipper of ‘Witch’ visits the Isle of Gigha. His purpose is to investigate[…]
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‘Locking’ through the Crinan Canal
The Crinan Canal has been described as ‘the most beautiful shortcut in the world’, crossing the narrow strip of land[…]
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Passages through the Western Isles: 12 June 2013
Heading north with deteriorating weather again, skippers plan their routes through the Western Isles and ‘over the top’ to the[…]
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The Pilgrims return
It feels pretty lonely catching up with the OGA Round Britain Challenge fleet after a week ‘back at work’ in[…]
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The Lambay Race, Dublin: 1921
Howth Sailing Club’s premier one-design class, the Howth 17s, was established in 1898. The Lambay race dates from 1904 and[…]
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Howth Sailing Club, Dublin
Howth Sailing Club was founded in 1895, and its premier one-design class, the Howth 17s designed by club Commodore Herbert[…]
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Plymouth to Chichester single-handed
We bring the final part from the skipper’s account of ‘Equinox’, a Cornish Crabber 24, taking part in the OGA50[…]
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