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Scottish literature class
The eye sweet preserved ring-netter, Shemaron: “on her way, the seas unminding”.© Jacqui Barker When Tarbert Loch Fyne poet George Campbell Hay (1915-1984) worked 1930s summers aboard the herring skiff...
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Altair: one of Scotland’s most beautiful things
Altair: one of Scotland’s all time most beautiful things. Made by men who worked with their head and their hands – and their heart. Designed, built and launched at Fairlie, Ayrshire, Scotland, 1931, by...
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Summer of ’42
Water Wag dinghy class historian Vincent Delany has uncovered more remarkable vintage sailing regatta footage at Dublin’s Irish Film Archive – this time in colour – showing vibrant regatta activity off...
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Green Launch 3
After a public vote, the world’s second hybrid ferry – to be launched in May at Ferguson Shipbuilders, Port Glasgow – will be called Lochinvar, from Walter Scott’s 1808 poem Marmion , and following the...
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The Reliance Project 3
A superb image was posted on The Reliance Project’s blog yesterday to celebrate the 110th anniversary of the launching of the 1903 America’s Cup defender “super cutter” Reliance at the Herreshoff yard,...
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The Weekend Watson – Charles Henry Ashley
Charles Henry Ashley really is a G.L. Watson for the Weekend – you can sail and row in her… or should it be row and sail… Peter Williams / Clwb Cychod Cemaes “To a reader today, it may seem strange...
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Sparkling Dublin Bay
A colourful start on Dublin Bay: Squibs at the Royal Alfred YC Baily Bowl, 26 May 2013.© Iain McAllister What is the definition of a yacht club? One might think of a plush clubhouse, a bit stuffy maybe...
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The Weekend Watson – St Patrick
For the first time since its inception in 1998, this year’s Fife Regatta will host one of the rare examples of a yacht built by the famous Fairlie boatyard to drawings by another designer: the...
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High wire act
This wonderful image from G.L. Watson – The Art and Science of Yacht Design of Shamrock II’s huge jackyard topsail being raised at Rothesay, Isle of Bute in 1901 made The Herald Scotland magazine’s...
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Clyde Classic
The exquisitely varnished David Ryder-Turner designed 23ft sloop Amber, built by McGruer apprentices in 1992, berthed at Rhu beside examples of the work of McKellar (Kilcreggan), Miller (St. Monance),...
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Latifa, full and by
Latifa off Ardlamont, July 2, 2013 .“… tramping on her way, the seas unminding, swinging forefoot wounding, stamping.”*Seen from the cockpit of Ayrshire Lass, The Fife Regatta’s oldest entrant –...
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The Weekend Watson – S.S. Hebrides
S.S. Hebrides in her 50sDan McDonald / Ballast Trust The world’s first hybrid roll-on-roll-off ferry, Hallaig, built by Ferguson Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow for Caledonian MacBrayne’s Sconser (Skye) /...
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Gaun yersel!
Recent developments in the cry wolf, tug of love, not in my back yard – then, in mine please! – no, mine thanks! saga of the high-and-dry 1864 Sunderland built clipper ship, City of Adelaide, rather...
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The weekend… pad
Caladh : iconic Firth of Clyde haven.Savills Not a Watson in sight here. But the story of G.L. Watson’s rise to fame as a designer of superb yachts of all types is very much part of the 19th Century...
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Little America’s Cup
Some amazing stuff going on in racing yacht design these days; luckily for us, some of the folk at the leading edge just love to talk about it. With worldwide interest in the design and sailing of...
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Those Magnificent Men…
Queen of Scots (1904), and her Avro Avian (1929), bound for “Treasure Island” in 1934.Martin Black What’s the definition of a superyacht? And a megayacht? If a yacht has the capability to be the base...
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The Reliance Project 4 – floating batteries
William Fife’s 1903 America’s Cup challenger Shamrock III showing her nickel steel plates in Erie Basin.Library of Congress The Herreshoff Marine Museum blog, supporting their project to build a...
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Rathlin Model Yacht Races
During an all too brief recent passage stopover at fascinating and beautiful Rathlin Island, just off the north east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland – but another world – this poster at the...
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Summer of ’68 – The Tobermory Race
This is not a classic yacht race. In the late 1960s, the elegant, bespoke, mostly locally designed and built yachts seen in the beautifully planned, filmed and paced documentary below were the norm on...
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