The annual CYI Classic Yacht Regatta Listing with over 80 events displayed, from Sydney to Sandhamn and from Spetses to San Diego! Enjoy your planning and if your event is missing please get in touch and we’ll add it to the list. Australia/New Zealand 25th February Duder Cup, Auckland https://classicyacht.org.nz 25th – 26th […]
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Winners & photos from the 1st regatta on the Italian circuit, 2022
Margaret, Ojalà II and Grifone win the first regatta of the Italian classic regatta circuit, 2022 at the Settimana Velica Internazionale … [Continue reading...]
Classic Yacht Regattas 2022
The Classic Yacht Regatta Calendar is here with over 70 listed from the world over. With covid tentatively astern the classics are ready once … [Continue reading...]
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TALLY HO – Transporting a Wooden Boat (EP102)
Leo Sampson takes a giant leap and moves Tally Ho to Port Townsend after 4 years of rebuilding the yacht inland. Still plenty to do but a massive step in the right direction. Hats off to Leo and team!
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 […]
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Desolation Island
Jack Aubrey has been ashore for a while and is getting into difficulties both in cards and at business, mostly due to his naivete and belief in the honesty of others. Stephen Maturin is also in personal trouble over his relationship with Diana Villiers and his increasing use of laudanum to relax. Aubrey is offered either the old […]
The Ionian Mission
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior Captain commanding a line-of-battle ship sent out to reinforce the squadron blockading Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate action of […]
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 Houston and Nigel Pert launch a large-format high quality book of gorgeous photographs covering the Brest Festivals, which have occurred every four years, since 1992. The Fêtes Maritimes at Brest is the world’s […]
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, […]
Two Years Before the Mast
Sailing to California from Boston around Cape Horn, ‘Two Years Before the Mast’ is both an adventure and an eloquent account of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen when he escapes the patrician world of Boston and Harvard for the arduous voyage. The result is an astonishing […]
Gipsy Moth Circles the World by Francis Chichester
When 65-year-old Francis Chichester set sail on his solitary,eastward journey around the world in 1966, many believed he wouldn’t return alive. But when the old man returned in his 53-foot ketch Gypsy Moth IV nine months later, he had made history’s fastest circumnavigation. Gipsy Moth Circles the World was an international best-seller when it appeared […]
Post Captain
This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining and enjoying more amorous adventures. Their comfortable existence, however, is cut […]
The Marlinspike Sailor
Hervey Garrett Smith was the foremost marine illustrator of the 1950s and 1960s, and his wonderful drawings of traditional ropework quickly propelled The Marlinspike Sailor to cult classic status when it was published in 1956. With the addition of a section on modern, synthetic rope in the 1970s, its popularity has continued undiminished to this day. It […]
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 […]
All This And Sailing Too by Olin Stephens
All This And Sailing Too – An Autobiography Olin J. Stephens. Olin Stephens is the most successful yacht and boat designer of the twentieth century, a legend in his own time almost from the day in 1931 when he and his brother Rod and father Roderick Sr. Finished a trans-Atlantic race to England in the […]
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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:
