Category: Sailing cruisers

Sailing yachts used for cruising, or as cruiser-racers.

Nancy Bloom’s photos of wonderful schooners

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Alabama as she crossed the finishing line at this year’s Great Provincetown Schooner
Regatta & Yacht Races

Hindu, complete with dancing man in white

Roseway and Lettie G Howard

Lettie G Howard


Nancy Bloom, official photographer for the Great Provincetown Schooner Regatta & Yacht Races held along the coast of Massachusetts has very kindly got in touch to offer some samples of her photos of the fabulous schooners that take part in the event. Thanks Nancy – they’re absolutely super. I particularly like the guy in the Hindu photo, who seems to be doing a dance that says ‘I’m finally doing something I really enjoy’.

See one of Nancy’s movies at YouTube.

Keep ’em coming Nancy!

Hoymen and barges

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Sailing barges Pudge, Wivenhoe and Zylonite

Wivenhoe. I took both photos on the Blackwater,
while sailing with Yahoogroup Openboat
moderator and old friend Johnny Adams

This morning I have some fairly random bits of content about Thames sailing barges to share.

The first is this website about hoys, the occupation of hoymen and Thames sailing barges, written from the perspective of someone descended from a family of 17th century settlers, some of which were hoymen.

Yahoogroup Boatdesign moderator and developer of helpful calculators Peter Vanderwaart pointed out the  striking photograph below showing three barges sailing briskly – they come from a Flickr photostream put up by the National Maritime Museum.

If you happen to be in the market for something marvellous, Kitty, an 1895 Harwich-built sailing barge launched in 1895, is for sale.

Sailing barges off Northfleet


Airborne lifeboat converted for racing

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‘With a fully battened mainsail, a total sail area of 20sq metres
and two sliding seats, Charles Currey’s converted airborne
lifeboat has an exciting performance. Photo: Charles Currey’

As usual, click on the thumbnail for a larger photo.

I’ve seen a converted airborne lifeboat sailing, but not for some years – so I was intrigued by this photo I found while reading a bound collection of old copies of The Yachtsman. Check the gaff rig, the battened sail and the planks for sitting out – clearly this is a very cool boat.

Are there any boats like this still sailing out there, I wonder?

For more posts on airborne lifeboats, click here.