FRANCO PACE
STEFFAN MEYRIC HUGHES
RICHARD LANGDON
Looking ahead Things to do this month
SEARCH AND RESCUE ALL YEAR
This two-year blockbuster exhibition at
ROUND THE ISLAND RACE (ISLE OF WIGHT)
30 JUNE Among this year’s entries is Olympian Ben Ainslie, who will swap his usual Finn-class dinghy for the 136ft Westward replica schooner Eleonora. Last year saw the biggest number of finishers ever for this race: 1,607 out of a total of 1,754 on the starting line. The year before the race, older than the Fastnet, celebrated its 80th birthday. If you’ve not already done it and you want to tick it off your list, it is heartening to know that the race organisers are allowing entries up to 2 June at £79 – and until 23 June at the increased price of £230. Tel: +44 (0)1983 296621,
www.roundtheisland.org.uk
SCOTTISH TRADITIONAL BOAT FESTIVAL
ARGENTARIO WEEK 14-17 JUNE
Based at the lovely Ligurian hill town of Porto Santo Stefano in Italy, this regatta is great for evening dock-walking, with yachts moored stern to the quayside
www.argentariosailingweek.it
BRITISH OPEN METRE REGATTA 27-29 JUNE
Eighteen or more 6-Ms, 8-Ms and 12-Ms at the Royal Southern Yacht Club, as part of its 175th anniversary year. Tel: +(0)23 8045 0300,
www.royal-southern.co.uk
30 CLASSIC BOAT JUNE 2012
23-24 JUNE Set in the 17th-century harbour of Portsoy nestled between Inverness and Aberdeen, this popular festival usually attracts more than 16,000 visitors, most of whom have nothing to do with the boats in attendance. Celebrating the working heritage of the eastern Scottish seaboard has always been part of this event’s raison d’etre and this year heritage workboats will act as floating museums showing the lives and habitats of sailors and fishermen of old. Tel: +44 (0)1261 842951 www.
scottishtraditionalboatfestival.org.uk
OUR SPORTING LIFE – SAIL FOR GOLD UNTIL
24 JUNE This timely exhibition, also on at the NMMC (see above) charts 112 years of Olympic and Paralympic sailing. Apparently, Britain has won more medals in sailing over the years than any other nation. Find out how! Tel: +44 (0)1326 313388, www.
nmmc.co.uk
National Maritime Cornwall features a real Sea King helicopter and even a line-up of 150 years of collection boxes. See below for contact details.
Next month in Classic Boat
SEA LION
Restored like new We chased this restoration down to Palma in Majorca to see her sail with a Spanish owner who had sailed her in childhood and had her largely rebuilt in Southampton
CLASSICS AT COWES And other events
More events, this July, than you can shake a spinnaker pole at... from the Js to the BCYC to the Keelboats
STEAM DRIFTER Lydia Eva
Steam drifters like the Lydia Eva used to feed the nation – when we liked to eat herring. And she’s been restored, to steam again
PLUS: We begin a two part history on the
history of the Olympic classes, and at last we catch up with Thames barge Cambria’s restoration and more
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