David Henshall talks about the story of the Mirror dinghy, the ‘people’s boat’ that brought sailing to the masses.
Category: History
Blue-water sailers Susan and Eric Hiscock 1963 film
There was a time when sailing appeared on prime-time TV, or something close to it, and here’s the proof – a trailer for a 1963 film made by blue-water sailing husband and wife team Susan and Eric Hiscock. It’s available on the Sailingchannel.tv website.
My thanks to Andrew Craig-Bennet for pointing this out via Facebook.
Yes… people really did speak very differently in those days!
Shipwreck photograph collection for sale by Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s is auctioning a remarkable archive of 1000 negatives of shipwreck images taken a period of nearly 130 years by the Gibson family of photographers over four generations – see a gallery of the shots here.
Do read the notes with each one – some of them are as vivid as the shots themselves – check out the fate of the Granite Slate and the Horsa. My thanks to Griselda Mussett for spotting this one.