Sailing for Pleasure – Page 2 – Sailing By: Tales from our coasts and inland waterways

Through Jack Sound, 1886

After a detailed description of the sail plan for the Swansea Bay pilot boats, Eden Northmore Jones tells the tale[…]

An Atlantic crossing sets the scene for the first cricket tour to America, taking place in 1859. Following the cricketers’[…]

View a fascinating, compelling newsreel, without any commentary, showing large sailing barges with full sails racing in Friesland, Holland. We[…]

Martin Goodrich, East Coast OGA member, reflects on his early cruising experiences, in 1966, whilst studying at Art College. He[…]

Eden Northmore Jones recounts his final cruise of 1884 in the five-tonner ‘Guess’, a 23 ft. round bilge boat, 8ft.[…]

Waldringfield, a small village on the River Deben in Suffolk has had sailing clubs since 1921 and September 2019 saw[…]

We bring a remarkable story about ‘Ziska’, a yacht built by Crossfields of Arnside, England in 1903. She’s just completed[…]

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

The annual Round the Island Race has been running since 1931, with just 25 entries in the first race. Island[…]

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