This season I have mostly been sailing a classic yacht, which is hardly surprising. What did you expect; that I’d been seduced to the dark side, and have been having more fun that I can remember on a jetski?
Contrary to many people’s memories of 2021, ours will mostly be positive. It helps living beyond reach – almost but not, alas, totally – of the nasty, little spiky thing we’ve all been worried about.
Truth is the old (Royal, because decisions used to be all taken in the Royal Hotel until Covid 19) Loch Broom Sailing Club had a bumper year, with 26 races sailed, something of a record, as well as a regatta and a trophy race in memory of a lost member.
Now the old LBSC is not the kind of club to have starting lines set at right angles to the wind, or even marks that lie anywhere near upwind. Some are simply described before the five-minute gun in terms of “the yellow creel buoy to the west of Carl’s mooring”, in answer to a shout of: “where’s the first mark”?
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The Need For Speed
Saving lives at sea has always been bound to the speed of rescue, from the first rowing boats to the 60-knot, all-weather motorboats of today
ROW YOUR BOAT
There has been a steady rise in recreational rowing over the past few years, and the choice can be bewildering. What’s the right boat for you?
Traditional Tool
JOINER’S NAME STAMP
Classic misuse of a word
Real classic ownership involves rot, rust and reward
SCUD MISSILE
Herreshoff’s newly-restored Bar Harbor 31 Scud lit up the classic racing scene in the Med in 2020 with a double win at Cannes and Saint-Tropez
BOSUN'S BAG
PRACTICAL TIPS FOR THE TRADITIONAL BOATER
DOUG LEEN - Tugboat man
Vietnam vet, park ranger, dentist, small-craft conservator and tugboat skipper.... meet Ranger Doug!
CHANCE TO SAVE AN Albert Strange yawl
Chances at Albert Strange ownership don’t come up often, and Sheila II is the quintessential Strange – and one with a great history, too
AFFORDABLE CLASSIC Salcombe Yawls
A friend and I once decided that walking might make a change from sailing. So we set forth to walk from Branscombe to Bigbury, a 100-mile stretch of the south-west coastal path marked by knackering climbs and knee-wrenching descents.
Cardiff, Wales - Save The Elena Maria Barbara!
A rare, 18th-century schooner replica, restored to the tune of around £1 million, could be abandoned if a buyer is not found soon.
