Regattas from November 2020 – October 2021. It has been a year of cancellations and postponements on the global classic regatta circuit due to the Covid-19 pandemic. So here we are once again to announce the possibilities for classic yacht racing over the next 12 months. Not only is there a packed schedule but we […]
Featured Articles
Bluebottle Crew Stories
The Royal Dragon Bluebottle has caught the attention of author David Goodday, but coming from an unusual angle. Much has already been written … [Continue reading...]
Celebrating Traditional Boats
Brest: the world’s largest maritime festival in photographs by Nigel Pert & Dan Houston with a foreword by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston. Dan … [Continue reading...]
A 1973 cruise on board OWL
In July of 1973 Marianne Beerman-Kok joined as crew on board the Frederick Shepherd design OWL on a sailing trip from Tobermory to the Hebrides. … [Continue reading...]
No Stopping Rockport Marine
I was imagining that all work at shipyards would be on hold right now with the Pandemic at its height in the US, despite Trump's remarks to the … [Continue reading...]
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Tally Ho – Ep. 82 – Fitting/Polishing Bronze knees
Leo Sampson is back with Episode 82. A man on a mission to rebuild a 110-year old English sailing yacht called Tally Ho. Designed by Albert Strange in 1909 (and launched in 1910), she is a well-known and important historic vessel – but after many adventures she was left in a remote port in Oregon to […]
Tuiga sails on by
Back in 2017 we were taking in the views on the Bay of Palma. The timing happily coincided with the start of a 15-Metre regatta and we became upfront and personal with Tuiga, who sailed on by. A Fife 15-Metre and owned by the Monaco Yacht Club she is 92’ overall with just 48’ of […]
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Lieutenant Hornblower
The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined. Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannonshot and the clamour of a mutinous crew, new Lieutenant Hornblower will need all of his seafaring cunning to overcome his first […]
Commodore Hornblower
This story describes the adventures of Hornblower in the Baltic with a small squadron under his command as Commodore. His old friend and subordinate, Captain Bush, is placed in command of his flagship, the “Nonsuch”, of 74 guns, he also has 2 sloops-of-war, 2 Bomb-ketches, and a cutter. All of these vessels play an important […]
Enterprise to Endeavour – The J-Class Yachts
Ten magnificent J-Class yachts were built and subsequently raced for the America’s Cup and other trophies in British and American waters between 1930 and 1937. There have been other yachts that are larger or faster, but none have captured the imagination of the public as much as the Js did. They were unique for […]
Moby Dick
Moby Dick is a great white whale, the most terrible known to whalemen. Captain Ahab, skipper of the Pequod, vows that he will rid the seas of the great creature. So a bitter feud develops between man and beast. As we sail with the whaler out of Nantucket, round the Cape of Good Hope and into the […]
Longitude
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. Anyone alive in the 18th century would have known that ‘the longitude problem’ was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day – and had been for centuries. Lacking […]
Hornblower – Beat To Quarters
June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and “to take, sink, […]
Loki and Loon
A terrific book for sailors or those fascinated with the idea of sailing, or of cruising, and long voyages as well. Published in 1985 just before the overwhelming internet gobbled up everything, praising whom it deemed the best while reducing others to obscurity, Pinchot’s account of sailing is well written and accessible by sailor and […]
The McGruer Lorne Class Yachts: Their History and Architecture
Established in 1911 on the river Clyde, the family-run firm of McGruer & Company Ltd created some of the finest sailing yachts ever built in Scotland.The smallest of these were the Lorne Class, designed in the 1960’s by the legendary James McGruer as “affordable” family sail cruisers. At 28 ft. LOA not only did they […]
The Beken Album
The famous Cowes based photographers illustrate some of their best shots in this 1999 edition. It is a selection of duotone images, with each decade being placed in the context of its yachting epoch, showing some of the developments in the world of sail at that time. Beautifully laid out with words from yachting historian […]
Sailing, Seamanship And Yacht Construction by Uffa Fox
This book is not only about boats but provides the bigger picture including an insight into the world-wide Depression. While much of the World was struggling to put food on the table, the wealthy were building fabulous yachts purely to race each other. The “J” boats were the penultimate result of cheap labor and materials […]
Press
CYI contributed to the Superyacht Top 40 Classic Yachts with praise for the Fife 23-Metre Cambria, No. 8.
In April, 2017 CYI wrote a piece on the New Ibiza Classic Regatta for The Islander magazine. You can read the article here, or go to issuu.com to read it on their site:
