CLASSIC SAILING NEWS – January 12. 2014 – Georgie Thompson and Sir Ben Ainslie, celebrating their recent marriage, were honeymooning on the couples Hoek Design TC 65 “Rita” when their roller furling mainsail twisted around the mast, unable to lower the fouled sail, the couple needing more hands to sort the problem out, hailed for …
Published on Jan 10, 2015 “Juggy” Clougher on-board Comanche talks through theii “lumpy gravy” first night, snakes worry sailors in the Volvo, Christophe Launay’s 2014 diary, Bouwe Bekking is “grumpy” about Leg 3 of the VOR, Day 10 of the Barcelona World Race and 170 of the world’s best sailors are foiling to win the …
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A collection of over 1,600 historic pictures of Marblehead and other New England sailing community during the early part of the 1900s, including Marblehead’s famous, L.F. Herreshoff’s Bounty, C, Raymond Hunt’s Q – boat Falcon, J’s, 8’s, 6’s, I’s, Dragon’s, Stars, Triangles, Sonders etc….. One of the finest galleries of Vintage boats of this era! …
William Fife “Altair” Specifications: LOA: 133′ 10″ / 40.79m LOD: 108′ 4″ / 33.02m LWL: 77′ 9″ / 23.71m Beam: 20′ 4″ / 6.20m Draft: 13′ 11″ / 4.25m Original Rig: Gaff-Schooner Hull Number: 789 Construction: Wood Designer: William Fife Original Owner: Captain Guy H. MacCaw Built: 1931 Year Refit: 1985-87 Southhampton Yacht Services Built …
In 1932 (LOA: 34’6″ LWL: 23’0) Gimcrack was designed and built on spec for Drake Sparkman, partner of Olin Stephens in response from a committee composed of members from the Larchmont, American and Seawanhaka yacht clubs wanting a one design yacht that would beat the Starling Burgess designed “Atlantic Class” and the Mower designed “Sound …