We bring the first instalment from the Cruising Log of ‘Kelpie II’, launched in 1902. A Canoe Yacht, 26’ overall[…]
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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’.
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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‘Ariel’ relaunched, 2019: a Deben Cherub
On Friday 25 October, 2019 the Deben Cherub ‘Ariel’ was launched at The Woodbridge Boatyard after undergoing renovation of her[…]
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A mid-Atlantic encounter: 2015
This extract tells of a remarkable mid-Atlantic rendezvous in 2015. It is an extract from the log of 45′ gaff[…]
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Tollesbury men on the big racing yachts
The small Essex village of Tollesbury has a fascinating maritime heritage. The village sign and Parish Church window illustrate ‘Endeavour’,[…]
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Three girls in a boat: 1933
This Pathé Archive brings us a glimpse back to 1933 with footage of three young women sailing on the Norfolk[…]
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