Working Sail – The Return of Agnes

  Luke Powell does not just build boats – he sails them too. Some years ago he rescued his then-largest build, Agnes, from the United States where she had fallen on hard times. Click the image to read an extract from his account of the voyage home to Cornwall,...

Lodestar Boats: BUNNY in Finland

Writing in 2003: Greatly facilitated (that is, made possible at all) by a rapidly made new mast from Essex boatbuilder Fabian Bush (see BUNNY in Morbihan), in July of this year Raid Finland followed the Great Glen and Morbihan Week in continuing to give me, Mike and...

Working Sail – a foretaste

Working Sail has gone to press. We’ll tease you with a few snippets from Luke Powell’s reissued book between now and its publication on 18 May. Today, you might like to read its pair of Forewords, by Tom Cunliffe and Jeremy Irons, both afficionados of the...

You would likely like* The Albert Strange Association

An annual pro bono job here is to lay out the ASA Yearbook, now in the fifth iteration of its swanky format in full colour (except where some of the photos are knocking on a bit); the 2023 Yearbook has just gone to press. Here’s what you’re missing by not...

Lodestar Boats: BUNNY in Morbihan

In May of this year [I wrote in 2003], following a small refit and a hull repaint occasioned by the Loch Ness beaching, Mike and I were back again at this superb cruising ground with Bunny to participate in a week-long rally involving some 800 boats from tall ships...

A Stranger takes his leave

As some of you know I have a soft spot for the designs, the writings, the voyages, and the art of Albert Strange (1855–1917) and so do enough others to function as The Albert Strange Association, formed in 1978. The largest concentration of AS boats is on the English...