Posts tagged with: sailing

‘Ethereal’ in the Pacific

‘Ethereal’, Shannon and the Whale. A Close Encounter off the Australian Coast’ 2015     ‘Shannon and the Whale’ Photo Bill Joy  ... Read More

Reflections

A design career that took off with the 1973 world champion Quarter Tonner, evolved through numerous successful Admiral’s Cup and Maxi designs and ultimately led to the creation of some of the world’s most notable superyachts, provides a tidy basis... Read More

Northwest Passage

Vancouver Maritime Museum exhibits the ‘St Roch’. This ship, successfully crossed the top of Canada, by way of the Northwest Passage, in 1942, following Amundsen’s ‘Goja’ the first ship to make the transit in 1903. “St Roch” is now displayed... Read More

Living the Dream

As Mark Twain said, ‘Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did’. But maybe not in the case of Discovery owners, two of whom completed epic circumnavigations earlier... Read More