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17.01.2022 Voyage around Australia on HMB Endeavour as part of the Encounters 2020 Program. Experience a sailing adventure like no other!

17.01.2022 Stop work, don't go to sleep - dream of this

17.01.2022 No need to think about anything today, here's today's priority

16.01.2022 What means Bark EUROPA to you? For some a simple question, for others something to think about a bit longer. After 25 years of roaming the seas, Bark EUROPA ha...s become a safe environment for many sailors from all over the world. They have all shared memories of laughter, emotional encounters with themselves, moments of tranquility at sea, experiencing anxious moments in rough seas and visiting the remote areas of Antarctica. This year, our captain Klaas and our cook Rensje have been working for EUROPA for 25 years. This video is for Klaas and Rensje, for our crew and for everyone that shares the love for EUROPA. Credits to Josiah Holwick, Proper Films

16.01.2022 As much as we love Goodison Shipyard, this is a much nicer view. So nice to be home.

16.01.2022 The sleek and streamlined Eagle44 WILLPOWER, locally owned by Don Ward, racing in the Spirit of Tradition Class at the Antigua Classics. Image Lucy Tulloch @the...lucytulloch @mountgayrum @thiscruisinglife @spirit_yachts @lyman_morse @classicyachtoa @sailingclassics @classic_sailing @locman_italy_official @classicsailormagazine See more

13.01.2022 Beautiful but cold

08.01.2022 The Alma project is rocketing along, and needs your help, be that volunteers, spreading the word and excitement, I almost forgot they also need donations

08.01.2022 Bone in her teeth, as the old timers say

08.01.2022 The magnificent 1939 EROS sailing in the Antigua Classics last week @sailingclassics @mountgayrum @carib_beer_antigua @classic_sailing @classicsailormagazine @donaldtofias @classicyachtoa @spirit_yachts @thiscruisinglife @lyman_morse @locman_italy_official @sy_eros

07.01.2022 The 32nd edition of Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta.

07.01.2022 Schooner "Nancy" ran aground on Nantasket Beach in a winter storm in 1927. The Schooner became a huge tourist attraction... For many years the huge wooden boa...t sat in the sand near Nantasket Beach in Hull, Mass., drawing paying crowds, postcard vendors and refreshment stands. A fierce nor'easter beached the schooner Nancy in the winter of 1927, but that terrifying night was soon forgotten. The turmoil of the waves became a quagmire of lawsuits and paperwork. On Feb. 19, 1927, the schooner Nancy anchored at Boston Light to ride out an expected storm. A wooden five-masted schooner, 259 feet long, she had just delivered a load of coal. Her hull was empty.A vicious nor’easter hit the next day. The winds reached 70 mph and dragged the Nancy out of Boston Harbor. She headed straight for Harding’s Ledge, a shoal that had caused many shipwrecks. The captain, E. M. Baird, ordered an extra sail set so the Nancy would clear the rocks. The maneuver worked, but the schooner then headed toward shore. The crew desperately tried to change her course, but failed. The Rescue... From his home in Hull, Osceola James watched the schooner Nancy as it was driven onto the beach. A lifesaver himself, he was the son of legendary lifesaver Joshua James.James ran out of the house without putting on a heavy coat. He commandeered horses pulling a snowplow and hitched them to the wheeled carriage that carried the surfboat from the Humane Society Station.The horses brought the lifeboat to the beach, where hundreds of onlookers watched the grounded schooner Nancy. James picked out a crew from the crowd, men who knew how to row."We just went to work," James later told the Boston Globe. "I couldn't see any need of waiting. It was getting dark and those men on the vessel wanted to come ashore. "The men launched the surfboat into waves that broke as high as 15 feet. Fifty men held a line attached to the stern in case the surfboat capsized. The crew jumped into the boat safely, including one sailor who held the ship’s ice-covered cat. The surfboat returned to shore safely after 20 minutes of rowing through the pounding surf. The crew of the schooner Nancy had more luck than the eight men who died that night aboard the Coast Guard cutter 238, which sank off Highland Light on Cape Cod. It became a tourist attraction... The schooner Nancy had grounded during an unusually high tide, and remained stuck in the sand. She quickly became a tourist attraction, drawing record crowds.Extra police were sworn in to handle the traffic. The Globe reported in March that Capt. Baird and his crew gave tours of the vessel, charging 50 cents admission to more than 400 people in a day. The Nancy soon brought in as much as $800 a week. A New Jersey dry dock company went to court to claim the money, claiming it was owed money by the Nancy’s owners. Sen. William Hennessey wrote a letter to the beach’s authorities, asking if the crew had the legal right to charge admission to a schooner stranded between the high- and low-tide water marks. The Town of Hull tried to collect $151 in property taxes from the owner, Samuel C. Forde, who in turn tried to get a cabaret license from the town. The New Haven Railroad brought a lawsuit against the ship’s owner because her bowspirit nearly overhung the railroad tracks. The Nancy's Last Voyage... Attempts to float the Nancy failed. In 1929, another storm drove her 10 feet inland. A sailor who lived aboard the Nancy and escorted tourists said the storm made him seasick. That 10-foot trip, reported the Globe, was the Nancy’s last voyage. Over the years, arsonists set fire to the Nancy. Nutro drinks had an advertisement painted on her side in giant letters. Her bowspirit was taken off. The schooner Nancy became such an eyesore by the Great Depression that Works Progress Administration workers dismantled her. The government gave the lumber to poor residents of Hull so they could heat their houses. Photos courtesy Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.

06.01.2022 An unidentified 18-footer coming out of Double Bay in 1949 in a big Southerly. Maybe they survived, maybe they didn’t. More shots of capsizes, breakages and difficulties on the new OOPS! Page on www.openboat.com.au Photo John Stanley Collection.