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 […]
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 […]
Highland Cowes: A History of Sailing in Scotland through the lens of Hunter’s Quay
Countless well-researched histories of yachting have been published since Victorian times. But, unaccountably, not one has focussed on Scotland. While individual Scottish designers have been lauded, even lionised, in lush biographies, the wider story of sailing in Scotland has been marginalised. This rich and colourful vein of incident and anecdote is acknowledged only in passing. […]
The Piper Calls The Tune – The Life of David Boyd
The Piper Calls the Tune is an account of the life and works of David Boyd (1902-1989), a significant and highly regarded yacht designer, who experienced both great success and great frustration through his 60 year career. The book reviews Boyd’s contribution to the maritime heritage of the Clyde Estuary and celebrates his enduring legacy […]
The Magic of the Swatchways
‘The Griffiths’ magic has been reflected in his writing, so that it has touched the lives of innumerable people. It would be hard to guess just how many of them owe the kindling of their first enthusiasm to some chance passage in The Magic of the Swatchways’. J D Sleightholme In the words of John […]
