Team ‘Ziska’: Race to Alaska, June 2019
We bring a remarkable story about ‘Ziska’, a 116-year old yacht built by Crossfields of Arnside, England in 1903. In 2019 she completed the Race… Read More »Team ‘Ziska’: Race to Alaska, June 2019
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We bring a remarkable story about ‘Ziska’, a 116-year old yacht built by Crossfields of Arnside, England in 1903. In 2019 she completed the Race… Read More »Team ‘Ziska’: Race to Alaska, June 2019
Alasdair Simpson brings us the first part of a detailed history of the remarkable story of ‘Ziska’, a Morecambe Bay Prawner built by Crossfields of… Read More »‘Ziska’: from Arnside to Whitby
It’s September 1948, an august body of be-blazered chaps and elegantly-coiffured gals gather in an (almost certainly) smoke-filled committee room to politely argue their respective… Read More »The Waldringfield one-design ‘Dragonfly’
The 17ft Windermere Class Yachts maintain an active and competitive fleet, racing every Saturday with an average of ten or more yachts on the start… Read More »Windermere 17 footers: over 100 years old
Watch two videos of races 31 years apart in this post. Are any of the boats racing in both events? The weather is certainly very… Read More »East Coast OGA Annual Race, 1987 and 2018
Watch this excellent video footage by Kevin Jay from the East Coast OGA August Cruise, 2017. ‘Rely’, based at Titchmarsh is seen from the air… Read More »‘Young gaffers’ racing and cruising, 2017
The small Essex village of Tollesbury has a fascinating maritime heritage and still has a vibrant sailing fraternity today. The village sign and Parish Church… Read More »Tollesbury, Essex and the America’s Cup, 1937
‘DG’ (Dirty Girty) as she is fondly known was designed and built by East Coast OGA member, Robert Berk, to beat the Gaffers at the… Read More »Getting old, but young at heart!
‘White sails enhance the beauties of Windermere’ is in the title sequence for this archive film of the annual regatta on Lake Windermere, 1934, published… Read More »‘White sails on Windermere’, 1934