Around the world under gaff-rig, 1965
In this extract, W M Nixon recalls a special global circumnavigation by Tim Magennis, President of the Dublin Bay OGA in their 50th anniversary year.… Read More »Around the world under gaff-rig, 1965
Posts relating to the OGA Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2013, including a Round Britain Challenge and parties in ports around the UK and Ireland.
In this extract, W M Nixon recalls a special global circumnavigation by Tim Magennis, President of the Dublin Bay OGA in their 50th anniversary year.… Read More »Around the world under gaff-rig, 1965
It feels pretty lonely catching up with the OGA50 Round Britain fleet after a week ‘back at work’ in the ‘big smoke’ of London. Solent… Read More »OGA50: Holyhead to Belfast, 2013
The fleet begins to gather in Ireland for the great party in Dublin, with tall ships providing a backdrop along the quays to the Howth… Read More »OGA50: Dublin Bay, June 2013
As he cruises up the Welsh coast in late May, 2013, our reporter from the OGA50 Round Britain Challenge fleet, Ben Collins recounts another stormy… Read More »OGA50: Reefing down!
This update for May 2013 from the OGA50 Round Britain Challenge logs finds the fleet scattered from the south coast of England up to Ireland… Read More »OGA50: rounding Lands End, 2013
In mid-May, the OGA50 Round Britain Challenge fleet were stormbound in Falmouth. Solent Gaffer, Ben Collins brings us another update on the state of the… Read More »OGA50: Squally weather in Falmouth, 2013
After the Hamble party and parade of sail before HRH Prince Michael of Kent, the OGA Round Britain fleet set sail from the Solent on… Read More »OGA50: fleet departs the Hamble, May 2013