Beatrice, an historic wooden sailboat of note, has been donated to the city of Imperia. The official ceremony was held on July 15thin the Ligurian town’s naval museum and was followed by a flag raising ceremony on the Lungomare Marinai d’Italia-Molo San Lazzaro attended by local authorities and Diana Bracco, president of the Bracco Group […]
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Wood Spars Yachting
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Gone but not forgotten
William Fife and Son closed in 1939- What happened next? At the beginning of World War II the Fife yard was taken over by the Admiralty as … [Continue reading...]
Classic Yacht Regattas 2021
Regattas from November 2020 - October 2021. It has been a year of cancellations and postponements on the global classic regatta circuit due to … [Continue reading...]
For the want of a keel the yacht was (nearly) lost
When Fred Meyer, the then Chairman of the International Eight Metre Class Association found Severn, a 1929 Eight Metre designed and built by … [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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The 12 Metre Class
This book brings to life the history of the very special International 12 Metre class, from the First International Rule to the America’s Cup. Some of the world’s greatest designers – William Fife, Charles Nicholson, Olin Stephens, and others – created these large, graceful yachts that played a significant role in the development of yachting […]
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 […]
The Man Who Loved Schooners by Robert Louis Boudreau
After a German submarine sinks the merchant barkentine ‘Angelus’, her ten crew are left to face the cold and merciless north Atlantic in a small open lifeboat without food or water. Over the next ten horrifying days, 24-year old Walter Boudreau witnesses the death of all but one of his shipmates. Miraculously, Boudreau survives. Just […]
The Ashley Book of Knots
First published in 1944, and reprinted many times since then, the latest reissue of this magnificent book contains, for the first time, fully illustrated details of all minor amendments and corrections that have come to light over the years. These have been collected and collated by Geoffrey Budworth with the help of other members of […]
The Letter of Marque
Jack Aubrey is a naval officer, a post-captain of experience and capacity. When The Letter of Marque opens he has been struck off the Navy List for a crime he has not committed. With Aubrey is his friend and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also an unofficial British intelligence agent. Maturin has bought for […]
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 Surgeon’s Mate
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by despatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. The chase that […]
Hornblower and the Atropos
In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower’s command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon Atropos […]
The History of the Falmouth Working Boats
In the far south west corner of England, on the River Fal in Cornwall, can be seen the world’s last fleet of oyster dredgers still working under sail alone. This is not a tourist attraction, but a viable commercial enterprise. During the winter months after the sleek yachts have been laid up, these sturdy vessels […]
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, […]
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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:
