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The News Archive

Old news items of on going relevance are archived here
Note that appropriate items have been moved to Resources

13 Nov 2018 Rope Standing Rigging ?
13 Nov 2018 The technology is here
12 Nov 2018 Designed by THB's Daughter
12 Nov 2018 Whatever happened to the 2004 build of Prima ?
22 Jul 2018 Classic Sailor Post First Six Issues Free Online
22 Jul 2018 Including No. 2 : The Artful Yachts Of Albert Strange
21 Jul 2018 Waterproof, Shockproof, Dustproof, Crushproof and Freezeproof
21 Jul 2018 The Olympus TG-5 camera is built to survive at sea
20 Jul 2018 Ship Salvage For Sale
20 Jul 2018 Probably the biggest trader in the UK : Trinity Marine
28 Jun 2018 Bespoke, Hand-Carved Boat Names
28 Jun 2018 by Roger Hall
28 Jun 2018 Roger runs DIY letter carving workshops in Devon

Grace

27 Jun 2018 Harrison Butler "Under Sail"
27 Jun 2018 1988 BBC programme synopsis
27 Jun 2018 (Alas, the documentary itself is not available online)
26 Jun 2018 Windfall Yachts - "Prizes Of War"
26 Jun 2018 BBC "Under Sail" programme from 1985 (YouTube, 20 minutes)
25 Jun 2018 Albert Strange two Minute Documentary
25 Jun 2018 A quick briefing on the great yacht designer (YouTube)
15 Jun 2018 Resource : Interactive Chart Finder
15 Jun 2018 For both Imray and Admiralty Charts
15 Jun 2018 (But note that Leisure Folios are not included)
14 Jun 2018 Resource : Admiralty Chart Corrections
14 Jun 2018 By Chart Number
12 Jun 2018 Back In Print : Geoff Taylor, Transatlantic Yachtsman
11 Jun 2018 The Harrison Butler designed Watermaiden's epic voyages

Patrick Burgess

11 Jun 2018 Historic Boat Builder Shuts Down
11 Jun 2018 Sadly, RJ Prior in Burnham-on-Sea has closed
10 Jun 2018 Four 'Unknown' Harrison Butler Designed Boats
10 Jun 2018 Zyklon Z4, 1942 : Tahar
10 Jun 2018 LOA 28' 6", 1946 : Stormvogel
10 Jun 2018 LOA 36' 1", 1967, Steel : Nyxie
10 Jun 2018 LOA 27' 2", 1935, Steel : Raboud
10 Jun 2018 Information on the above welcome !
02 Jun 2018 Notices To Mariners
02 Jun 2018 Admiralty chart corrections, cumulative as six month PDFs
02 Jun 2018 Antares chart corrections for Scottish waters
02 Jun 2018 Imray chart corrections database access
11 May 2018 Need A Replacement Cutlass Bearing ?
11 May 2018 Many 'quirky' sizes in stock : Countrose Bearings
28 Mar 2018 Resource
28 Mar 2018 Historically Important Vessels : National Small Boat Register
25 Feb 2018 Historical Resource
25 Feb 2018 The Australian and New Zealand Boat Register
31 Jan 2018 Shipbuilding At Shoreham, England
31 Jan 2018 Yachts built by Stow & Son include a couple by Albert Strange
14 Jan 2018 Nobby Owners Association
14 Jan 2018 An attractive website all about these classic wooden boats
13 Jan 2018 Naval History Resource Website
13 Jan 2018 For serious military research into casualties and ship losses
27 Dec 2017 Designer And Boat Builder, Alexander Robertson & Son
27 Dec 2017 Impressively detailed information about the Scottish yard on Wikipedia
05 Nov 2017 Yachting History In Scotland
05 Nov 2017 Lovely website on James McGruer and Alfred Mylne
02 Nov 2017 The OGA's Eastcoaster Newsletter
02 Nov 2017 The last 15 issues are available as free downloads
01 Nov 2017 The Life and Designs of Kim Holman
01 Nov 2017 Informative Classic Boat article on the great British designer of yachts
29 Oct 2017 Single Handed Cruising by Francis B Cooke
29 Oct 2017 The classic text, in PDF form, as a free download 

Single Handed Cruising by Francis B Cooke

21 Oct 2017 The Caledonian Maritime Research Trust
21 Oct 2017 Searchable database of 35,000 vessels built in Scotland
20 Oct 2017 HB Englyn Derived Fiddler's Green
20 Oct 2017 YouTube of this Canadian Gaff Rigged beauty under sail
18 Oct 2017 GL Watson : The Book and The Boat
18 Oct 2017 Book : Art and Science Of Yacht Design, £65
18 Oct 2017 Boat : Peggy Bawn, £300,000
17 Oct 2017 Where The Hillyard Boats Were Built
17 Oct 2017 Rare image with “Hillyard” discernible on the right
17 Oct 2017 Plus a high quality slideshow of the area as it is now

Hillyard Boat Builders, c1960
Hillyard's boat building establishment on the River Arun in Littlehampton c1960

17 Oct 2017 Dictionary of Sailing Terminology
17 Oct 2017 It's free, searchable and online
10 Oct 2017 I Name This Ship...
10 Oct 2017 Fun blog on ship names from Wooden Ships
12 Jun 2017 Five Page Article on a Harrison Butler Designed Boat....
12 Jun 2017 ... in the December 2016 issue of Boating New Zealand
05 Jun 2017 Home Ports Chart
05 Jun 2017 Here is the latest version (Uses JavaScript)
05 Jun 2017 Additions, subtractions and amendments to the webmaster, please

Home Ports Chart

21 Mar 2017 Hannah Cunliffe Is The New Director of National Historic Ships
21 Mar 2017 Well known HBA member secures key role at NHS
16 Mar 2017 Forty Year Old Engine Scrapped
16 Mar 2017 YouTube of Tramontana's old BMC being hoisted out
21 Feb 2017 Askadil's Transatlantic Crossing of 1966
21 Feb 2017 Feature with photographs : Motor Boating March 1967
11 Feb 2017 Did Charles Devereux Marshall sail with THB ?
11 Feb 2017 We suspect a the two sailed together aboard Maud
11 Feb 2017 If you have evidence they did, please let us know...
11 Feb 2017 'Lives of Fellows' : Marshall, Charles Devereux

21 Dec 2016 Seasalter at Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017
21 Dec 2016 Great write-up: Vintage Seasalter Sees South Seas

Australian Wooden Boat Festival

20 Dec 2016 Nick Gates & Co's Restoration of Mary Gray
20 Dec 2016 Lovely work beautifully photographed
14 Dec 2016 Vindilis Restoration Photographs From 2002
14 Dec 2016 A and R Way's revamped website features the work done 
13 Dec 2016 On The Verge Of Being Broken Up...
13 Dec 2016...Ardglass, the first Cyclone II, has been saved 
10 Dec 2016 HBA Chairman's Letter in Classic Boat
10 Dec 2016 Fund for wooden boat building and maintaining 
09 Dec 2016 Obituary
09 Dec 2016 Theo Rye's life is celebrated 
09 Dec 2016 (The May 2016 Classic Boat featured Theo's article on HB's Z4 design)
23 Nov 2016 Seamanship And The Small Craft Sailor
23 Nov 2016 An interesting essay on boat size
23 Nov 2016 ... and the resulting discussion
03 Nov 2016 Zingara features in Wooden Boat Magazine
03 Nov 2016 'Lost' boat still exists and is For Sale (PDF)
20 Sep 2016 A FaceBook Post From America
20 Sep 2016 Brad Tineus with photos and news of Chencharu
18 Sep 2016 A Watercolour of the Englyn Design, Cora
18 Sep 2016 By Canadian artist Betty Ann Anderson
28 Jul 2016 The Canoe Yawl by Richard Powell
28 Jul 2016 Historically important, published on 5th August 2016

Canoe Yawl from Lodestar Books

03 Apr 2016 Peter Ward Half Model Sold At Auction
03 Apr 2016 Englyn design, Almonde, bought for £371
13 Mar 2016 The Table In The Floor
13 Mar 2016 Design genius realised aboard Lindy II (Plans & Photos)
04 Mar 2016 Working With The Grain Of The Wood
04 Mar 2016 There is a right way and a wrong way (YouTube)
04 Mar 2016 (With thanks to Robert Griffiths for the link)
24 Feb 2016 Puzzled By The Word "Corinthian" ?
24 Feb 2016 The evolution in meaning and use of the word
24 Feb 2016 (Thanks to Michiel Scholtes for the link)
22 Feb 2016 The Early Adventures of Peter-Tangvald
22 Feb 2016 Lots of pictures of Dorothea, his HB designed boat
27 Dec 2015 In The January 2016 Edition of Classic Sailor Magazine
27 Dec 2015 Five pages on Sabrina & Destina 'Sailing to Bembridge'
06 Dec 2015 A New Zealand Ghost Boat
06 Dec 2015 Vesper built in 1950 may be to a HB design
06 Dec 2015 Info inc drawings are in Sea Spay magazine Dec 1950 & Apr 1951
20 Nov 2015 "A Sickening Crunch of Glassfibre and Timber"
20 Nov 2015 December's Yachting Monthly 'The Confessional' (on page 104)
20 Nov 2015 describes, with an illustration, a collision with Firefly
03 Nov 2015 Issue 2 of Classic Sailor Magazine...
03 Nov 2015 Features Albert Strange in a six page article

Albert Strange on Cherub II
Abert Strange on Cherub II, 1896

26 Aug 2015 Collingwood's Letter of 1939...
26 Aug 2015 ... in which he describes being on Zenocrate in a storm
21 Aug 2015 Sister Ships : Selamat and Chencharu
21 Aug 2015 Val Lindquist, 9 at the time, writes about their launch in 1948
10 Aug 2015 Boats And Their Stories
10 Aug 2015 Andrew Cocks pens a few words on Rose of Arden
09 Jun 2015 Winner of The Bewick Prize 2014
09 Jun 2015 The Boatyard, by Shirley Smith Larger Image
09 Jun 2015 Available to purchase for £80 (Is it HB ?)

The Boatyard

08 Jun 2015 Rose Of Arden features...
08 Jun 2015 ...on the cover of the book 'The Eliminator' (Blog)
08 Jun 2015 Thanks to Richard Farmer for the link
04 Jun 2015 Jubilee Barge Designer Ed Burnett, 43, Found Dead
04 Jun 2015 "No suspicious circumstances" say Police (BBC News)
04 Jun 2015 Ed once owned the Harrison Butler designed Ibis
04 Jun 2015 Destina Attracts The Admiring Eyes...
04 Jun 2015 ...of the Bursledon Blogger
31 Mar 2015 WM Nixon's Blog on Wooden Boats
31 Mar 2015 ...concludes with a plee to save Englyn I
12 Mar 2015 Eventide Owners' Group
12 Mar 2015 Have been helping us clarify HB design information
12 Mar 2015 They're currently also featuring a lovely photo of Lindy II
09 Mar 2015 Building a Model of Eenhoorn
09 Mar 2015 Construction detail with many photos in English.
09 Mar 2015 Original in Dutch
20 Feb 2015 Collection of 260 Half Models
20 Feb 2015 PDF Catalogue confirms The Royal Thames Yacht Club own;
20 Feb 2015 By Harrison Butler: Vindilis, Zenocrate & Erla*
20 Feb 2015 By Albert Strange: Innisfallen,Tally Ho, Redwing, & Sea Harmony
11 Jan 2015 Mark Miller : Sad News
11 Jan 2015 Mark died on 4th January, after a short illness.
11 Jan 2015 Funeral Service: St. Feock Methodist Church (Cornwall) at 2pm 20th January
09 Jan 2015 Review of 2014 from Wooden Ships
09 Jan 2015 A broker shares his thought on the year now gone
03 Jan 2015 One Minute Video
03 Jan 2015 Tramontana sailing the English Channel, Summer 2012
03 Jan 2015 (Extracted from an iPhone, converted to MPEG)

Tramontana Video 

25 Nov 2014 Jude Law, Captain of a Nuclear Sub
25 Nov 2014 New film out soon: Black Sea

 BlackSea

21 Nov 2014 * for George Böekling
*** Nov 2014 Ace detective work results in an exciting find 

 Imke
Imke: George Böekling's West Wind design HB

09 Nov 2014 Anderson, Rigden and Perkins Register
09 Nov 2014 Simon Papendick tracking down boats built by Whitstable boatbuilder
04 Nov 2014 Former President of HBA
04 Nov 2014 With regret, I pass on the news that Patrick Gibson has died
07 Oct 2014 HB Boat on YouTube
07 Oct 2014 Video of Thuella motor sailing with her new owners
26 Sep 2014 Australian News
26 Sep 2014 With sadness, the Association has received news of John Taylor's death
26 Sep 2014 His boat, Quest of Sydney, is being looked after well
17 Sep 2014 Pink Star Boat "Rama II" Tracked Down
17 Sep 2014 Ursula Armstrong found this old eBay listing from 2011 of Rama II
17 Sep 2014 She also sent a link this 2008 photo of Keepsake in the Woodbridge mud
12 Sep 2014 The New Red Ensign


For the reduced UK...
Saint Andrew OUT, Saint David IN

11 Sep 2014 In Full View Of All Tobermory
11 Sep 2014 Cruising Log featuring a spectacular picture of Diana aground
05 Jun 2014 ArtWork Inspired by Harrison Butler Boats
05 Jun 2014 Digital artist Erkki Mikkola's stunning drawing of Askadil
07 May 2014 Blog Chronicles Epic Harrison Butler Restoration
07 May 2014 Marc's Z 4-Tonner Zephon is relaunched

  
  

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