http://www.classicyacht.info/ http://www.classicyacht.info is an online directory of classic yachts from all over the world! Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:12:10 +0100 http://backend.userland.com/rss/ XOOPS WebLinks 0.9 XOOPS WebLinks acully@classicyacht.info acully@classicyacht.info en http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=369 We have heard through our Contact page from the Spanish owner of CHARM II — the magnificent 40ft counter-stern yawl, and the ultimate extrapolation of Albert’s last design VENTURE. CHARM I ... Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:51:44 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=369 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=364 In response to an enquiry from Mike Slater regarding further activity and writings of Adrian Hayter, who sailed SHEILA II from the UK to New Zealand in the 1950s and wrote the quite intense Sheila in ... Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:42:05 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=364 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=356 See the current Classic Boat for Jamie Clay’s 8-page story of the painstaking 4-year restoration of Albert Strange’s last, sublime design, the counter-sterned topsail gaff yawl VENTURE by ... Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:47:17 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=356 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=353 For 25 years from its inception in 1978 until 2003, the ASA produced a Yearbook containing a diverse range of contemporary and historical articles, anecdotes and research material. The Yearbooks were ... Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:28:07 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=353 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=341 I was in Marion, Mass. USA; the boat I am currently running being in the yard for some engine work. Not an awful lot happens in Marion on the wrong side of Autumn, I?m not sure a great deal happens on ... Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:06:22 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=341 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=318 ASA member Alan Smith of Suffolk has sent us these recent photos of RED DAWN II. She is 27ft 6in x 19ft 3in x 6ft 4in x 3ft 9in and was built in 1923 by Geo Sinden of Fishbourne, Sussex for Gorden Sin ... Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:10:33 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=318 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=312 A warm welcome to our newest member Russ Manheimer of New Jersey, who writes: I’ve always had a soft spot for canoe yawls and obviously double-enders in general. Every once in a while I toy with ... Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:21:49 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=312 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=338 A warm welcome to our newest member Russ Manheimer from New Jersey, who writes: I’ve always had a soft spot for canoe yawls and obviously double-enders in general. Every once in a while I toy wi ... Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:27:29 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=338 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=311 My apologies: What with one thing and another, a backlog of updates has piled up, which I have just got on top of — so if you haven’t visited for a while, scroll down and have a look &#821 ... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:11:00 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=311 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=300 Trawlers going to Sea - Peel, Isle of Man A YEAR OR SO AGO THE ASA WAS CONTACTED through its website by Wendy Keenan of London, who wrote My father lives in South Africa and in the 1970s obtained seve ... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:06:09 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=300 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=276 AT ABOUT 22FT, SPINDRIFT IS A SLIGHT LENGTHENING OF GEORGE HOLMES? seminal canoe yawl design EEL (extant and owned by an ASA member) and was built robustly in 1899 at Tynemouth, by a company who also ... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:17:14 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=276 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=287 AT ABOUT 22FT, SPINDRIFT IS A SLIGHT LENGTHENING OF GEORGE HOLMES? seminal canoe yawl design EEL (still extant and owned by an ASA member) and was built robustly in 1899 at Tynemouth, by a company who ... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:52:36 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=287 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=272 IN OCTOBER 2007 THE ASA WAS CONTACTED through its website by Denise and Nick Smith who had come into possession of some etchings by George Holmes and wished to know more about him, and them. They sent ... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:47:59 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=272 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=268 OUR TECHNICAL SECRETARY AND ARCHIVIST Rick Powell has been trawling The Yachtsman in earnest, and came across the below correspondence from the number of April 7 1898 which sheds light on the origin o ... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:18:33 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=268 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=265 A PROPOS NOTHING AT ALL, and to counteract the English East Coast bias we may be accused of, by virtue of the (by our standards anyway) dense population of AS yachts there: Roger and Sandra Clarke?s E ... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:07:36 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=265 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=256 SCARBOROUGH YACHT CLUB HON SECRETARY CLIVE MURRAY and the ASA?s John Hobson recently removed from the club?s wall, where it had hung for many years, a half model of Albert Strange?s canoe yawl of 1888 ... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:24:47 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=256 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=247   ALBERT?S 47FT AUXILIARY CUTTER, BUILT 1909 by Stow & Son at Shoreham, Sussex, has had a chequered career including winning the 1927 Fastnet Race as TALLY HO, being wrecked on a Pacific reef a ... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:20:46 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=247 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=240 NEW MEMBER TOM PALING has recently acquired HERALD, built in 1911 by Dyer Bros., Southampton, to a design by an E P Hart. Although currently rigged as a Bermudan cutter, she was apparently once a yawl ... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:10:48 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=240 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=215 It is one thing to know a group of people through correspondence and an occasional hastily snatched pint, but to go sailing with them can be a different experience altogether. Sally and I had believed ... Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:04:44 +0000 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=215 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=214 Blue Jay has recently been sold! We have heard from her new owners, who have joined the ASA, and we’ll have more details soon. Meanwhile there is more about Blue Jay here. Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:27:49 +0100 http://www.albertstrange.org/?p=214