‘Clytie’, a 30′ gaff cutter, was built at Woodbridge on the River Deben, Suffolk in 1922 and has been owned[…]
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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’.
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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Cruise of the ‘Joan’: the Tyne to Arbroath, 1923
‘Cruises of the Joan’ is from a delightful series, the Lodestar Library, featuring ‘interesting, the unusual, and the downright eccentric[…]
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Round the Island Race: 1960s and 2020
In 2020, the organisers of this historic race decided to postpone until September, due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The annual[…]
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Holiday week in Holland: 1962
In this archive newsreel, we see holiday crowds as spectators and participants in a yachting event. There’s a campsite for[…]
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