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The schooner Rainbow: “Design, copyright and exhibition”
Turkey Red rainbow dots design, Archibald Orr Ewing and Co., Vale of Leven, Scotland, c late 1870s. (National Museum of Scotland) An inherited fortune from the Turkey Red textile dyeing and printing...
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The Fife dynasty – first family of yacht design
Ayrshire Lass, designed William Fife Sr, 1887, dressed overall in the Kyles of Bute, Fife Regatta, July 2013.(CNN Mainsail) It was our pleasure last year to assist CNN Mainsail’s Richard Simmonds and...
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Reviews
John Sandoe Books, Chelsea: how one would want one’s London stockist to look.(Mylene Friedrich Rizzo / Clarisse Zanetello Linhares) We’ve recently been enjoying undertaking a long overdue update to the...
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The Weekend Watson – Camilla
Camilla, 30 years their senior, leads the Gareloch One Designs during their 90th anniversary sail past, Gareloch, Scotland, August 2014.(photo: Don MacLean) The sweet, varnished gaff cutter Camilla is...
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Sensuous and mental joys
Ian Nicolson with G.L. Watson – The Art and Science of Yacht Design at Cove & Kilcreggan Book Festival, November2014.(Rona Grierson / The Lochside Press) It’s pleasing to hear about yacht designer,...
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ALOFT: Pre-War Summer, 1939
The most recent episode in Alastair Gordon’s eloquent retracing of his father’s pre-second word war life in Scotland. We enter a carefree summer of sailing beautiful home-grown yachts on the Firth of...
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Peggy Bawn Press website
Pleased to report that everything is back to normal with the Peggy Bawn Press web site http://www.peggybawnpress.com/. Thanks for your messages of support. You can now return to purchasing our lovely...
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Peggy, of Casteltown: the world’s oldest yacht?
Peggy levitates. (IOM Today) It was an emotional moment this week when Peggy, probably the world’s oldest yacht – born 1789 – departed her boathouse at Castletown on the Isle of Man for the first time...
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Britannia – a rather special yacht
Britannia winning the Royal Clyde Yacht Club’s Queen’s Cup, Firth of Clyde, July 1894.(Martin Black collection) Probably G.L. Watson’s most famous and successful design, the cutter yacht Britannia was...
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