FOLLOWING on from a survey of 2018 competitors, the organisers of Largs Regatta Festival have made some improvements to their popular end of summer regatta. The 2019 event will take place from 23-25 August at […]
THE SAILING year of 2019 kicked off with the loudly trumpeted SailGP grand prix in Sydney. This new ‘made for media’ grand prix circuit uses turbo’d up F50 foiling catamarans which were originally the AC50s […]
FOR THE first time ever, the AGM of the Westerly Owners Association (WOA) was held in Scotland! Commodore Mary Buchanan, who is the first Scottish commodore, had invited members at last year’s AGM to come […]
THE ROYAL Northern and Clyde Yacht Club is taking part in the RYA Push the Boat Out campaign again this year and as well as the successful open days, the club is adding a series […]
MURRAY MacDonald is making further waves with his popular campaign Autism on the Water (AOTW) with a special guest being invited to race aboard the project’s Hunter 707 this September, writes Alison Chadwick. Legendary round […]
Charmian Entwistle recalls 20 years of running a yacht charter company on Skye! LAST YEAR on 1 December, Mark and Charmian Entwistle celebrated 20 years in the yacht charter business which probably makes them the […]
The vast majority of visitors to the Scottish Caravan Show in Glasgow’s SEC were interested primarily in static or trailable vans, but the small leisure marine trade exhibit at the show encountered a latent desire […]
The Oceanis 51.1 has been a big success for Beneteau, now the Oceanis 46.1 follows many of the same principles and, after sailing the new First Line model at Beneteau’s global press test on the […]
CLYDE Corinthian Yacht Club’s (CCYC) popular Round Shuna Race is scheduled for 1 September 2019. The ever popular weekend mixes feeder races from Ardfern and Oban to Craobh Marina and potentially, there may also be […]
NORMAN Kean is the honorary editor of the Irish Cruising Club’s continually updated Sailing Directions, and last year he wrote about diesel for craft in Ireland. He said that for many years, leisure vessels in […]
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