ONNE VAN DER WAL
ALISDAIR MCLEAN
CLASSIC NEWS
ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHY Yachting books - the top 8,000 listed
The fi rst, and only, searchable online bibliography of yachting literature was recently unveiled at a meeting of the Association of Yachting Historians at the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Cornwall.
It lists around 8,000 books and was compiled by Dr Michael Bender over nearly 20 years. “I think I’ve got about 90 per cent of them,” Michael told CB. A former psychologist, he started his research in order to write his PHD thesis: Yachting Literature from 1889 to 1939. The bibliography, however, is much more broad reaching, starting with the fi rst narratives and ending in 2005. Entries are searchable under ten categories (among them ‘yacht cruising’, ‘fi ction’ and ‘instructional’)
SWALLOW BOATS
Welsh boatbuilder ‘breaks’ America
Here at CB, we’ve always admired the Swallow range of modern/ traditional dinghies and daysailers in gunter and lugger rig, built in ply and GRP. They’ve shared our stand at the London Boat Show twice; the news editor sailed one of their Storm 15s around London; and Pelham Olive, owner of the Mylne cutter Kelpie, has a BayRaider 20. So it was good to see
the father-and-son fi rm from Cardigan, west Wales, reach a wider audience when they beat competition from around the world to win three awards at the Newport Boat Show in Rhode
Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea is unbeatable and The Big Six has a very well-crafted plot – defi nitely worth a better look.” Also standing out among the 8,000 was Bernard Moitessier’s The Long Way – “The most exciting racing book – there are very few good accounts of racing.” “The most… iconic story, or at least allegorical, is the tale of Donald Crowhurst.” Crowhurst faked his
and separated into six time periods. Information such as author and publisher is available for each book along with additional notes. After all this work, CB had to ask Michael if he has any favourites: “Arthur Ransome. For tension, We
Jeckells
at 180 Sailmerker Jeckells celebrates 180 years of family business this year. To celebrate, they are giving one CB reader (it could be you) £1,000 worth of sails. See page 95 for details.
Yarmouth Pier
Island in the autumn – including ‘Best New Sailboat’ and ‘Most Innovative New Product Award 2011’. “That was particularly satisfying as it was open to all (eg Garmin, Yamaha etc),” said director Matt Newland. Swallow Boats’ main innovation is under-sole water ballasting.
mooring Yarmouth’s historic pier on the Isle of Wight, built in 1876 and restored with HLF money, will now be available as a mooring for yachts too large to access the historic harbour.
Three of yachting’s best books, reckons Dr Michael Bender
positions during the 1968/9 Golden Globe Race and was never seen again. It is assumed he killed himself. The bibliography is available to individuals at £25, or £50 for institutions. See more at www.
yachtingbibliography.com.
CVRDA
Jack Holt at 100 celebrations It is not only Charles Dickens who posthumously celebrates his birthday this year (he would be 200); the dinghy designer Jack Holt would be a century old. To mark it, a regatta of 60 of his boats from throughout his career will meet on 7-8 July at the Wraysbury Lake Sailing Club for a centennial regatta organised by the Classic and Vintage Racing Dinghy Association. Holt is most famous for his 1962 Mirror. Other designs include the Cadet (1947), Enterprise (1956) and GP14 (1949).
WORD OF THE MONTH
Yesty A foaming, breaking sea. Shakespeare in Macbeth gives great power to this state of the waters: “Though the yesty waves / Confound, and swallow navigation up.”
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