This summer’s Brest festival was a little on-the-bus – off-the-bus. Were they going to have a British Village… or no? At first the organisers of the world’s largest maritime gathering, on the North West coast of France, were keen… But then it was all off… Then there were a few maybes and then, in February, it was a defo yes! That felt a little late, given that a lot of people had already planned their summer, but Mike Smylie (the Kipperman) and I were able to get a great band of salty folk together and create a village experience representing the UK called the Celtic Sea and Channel.

But what is the Brest Festival? And why go? Well, it’s huge, with seven kilometres of quays in the protected harbour where up to a million visitors have come to see a spectacle of seaborne living history which is the most impressive on the planet. Since 1992 it’s been the largest event in Europe. And, held every four years apart from 2020, it has been a magnet for sailors as much as the enthused. Every day Tall Ships leave the quays taking the public out for a jolly on the Rade de Brest – the impressive wider harbour of France’s Brittany coast. Every night there are firework and searchlight shows and the whole thing is backed by maritime themes of living history, music and food.

And everywhere there are interesting boats from coracles to three masted sailing ships, replicas of famous vessels, restorations, Viking craft in build, pilot cutters, fishing vessels, workboats, lifeboats, yachts, dinghies, rowing gigs and strange rigs, ancient replicas, tugs and other little steam boats.

These, of course, as we all know dear reader, are manned and maintained by some of the quirkiest and most interesting men and women it might be your pleasure to meet. 

The port of Brest is home of the French naval academy, founded here in 1752. And while the town had to be rebuilt after intense allied bombing during World War II when it was the Nazis’ major anchorage and U-Boat base, it’s still the navy’s major western port. The history of the place goes back to the stone age and the castle here is based on one the Romans built, on the river Penfeld. It’s now a major maritime museum.

Our Celtic Sea village was one of five so called “ports of call”, with regional themes based on the Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean and Polar sailing. All were very different in their makeup, so for instance at the Pacific you could be tattoed, either permanently or ephemerally. 

The ports of call were joined around the site with other themed villages – of tourism, safety and rescue at sea, ocean conservation, heritage skills; a space for water fun, like trying paddle boards and small dinghies and a space for children.

 It’s the Tall Ships which really dominate Brest, and the original event did much to promote the re-emergence of Tall Ship sailing as square riggers were being restored or built anew. This year the 190ft (58m) barque Belem was one of 25 Tall Ships – ten of which were square rigged. Only one was British – a sad reflection of the fortunes of our larger sailing vessels, but the 120 year old 75ft (22.7m) Bessie Ellen, run for the last 24 years by Nikki Alford is a superbly kept example of one of our coastal trading ketches. 

Some of the French Tall Ships here were British – Le Francais barque, used to be the Kaskelot famous for many films like Shackleton and Cutthroat Island. The Etoile du Roy used to be Grand Turk.

But the Tall Ship making the news this year was the Shtandart – the replica of Peter the Great’s famous frigate, which was denied entry following a European ruling in June which added replica and heritage vessels to the list of banned boats of Russia. The training vessel, which has been taking young adults of Europe to sea since she was launched in 2000, has been a star of every festival since then and she had a fleet of supporting vessels to bring her into Brest before she was stopped by the navy. 

It seemed petty, if not cruel, to many – Shtandart had changed her registry to the Cook Islands in anticipation of the legislation (fruitlessly, as it turns out). And the irony of it is that she is banned in Russia because of her captain Vladimir Martous’s opposition to the Putin regime. He needs help. At the time of writing she has been drifting at sea, denied entry to ports around the Bay of Biscay.

Another reminder of the reach of Russian aggression was witnessed by members of the British village one night when a Ukrainian captain of one of Tall Ships announced that by this time tomorrow he would be in a trench, drafted back into the army again in the ongoing fight for his homeland.

How proud were we, to be returning to this theatre of maritime living history, sneaking back through that door marked EXIT, and supported by the French with accommodation and travel to represent our corner of the Celtic peoples.

We had the Galway Hookers on one side… and before you jump to conclusions of a sailor’s salacious night in Sligo, this was the Sailing Club for those famously beautiful beamy workboats of the west – a couple of smaller versions of which they had brought down on trailers.

Mike Smylie’s daily cold-smoked kippers are a taste sensation not lost on the French – I rather suspect we were invited back mainly due to the popularity of his fare when we staged the British Village in 2016. So no surprise that his Kipperhouse (in his exhibition called Kipperland) was often obscured by queues.

The International Boatbuilding Training College of Lowestoft is well known for teaching many of our current generation of boatbuilders and restorers. Mike Tupper and his crew of expert carpentry instructors displayed and demonstrated the wide range of skills and techniques needed for wooden boat building and repair. A couple of times a day Mike would nick all the chairs for one of his impromptu but highly popular and usually hilarious lectures. These were delivered in French and English. 

Luckily in the village we had the help of a local girl, Julie Guevel, a sometime Tall Ship sailor, who volunteered on the first day and spent the week with us, translating when our own French was, ah, failing.

Our rows of campaign tents included Andy Peters – the well-known figurehead sculptor, whose constant chiselling kept a consistent crowd cheerful.

Mandy Coates and artist Lisa Carter Grist were making willow baskets, hats and coasters plus a lot of friends and fans. And next to Kipperland Len and Mandy Walters of the River Teifi Coraclers with Lorraine Burchill and Alun Lewis with their river Cleddau salmon boat and compass net showed traditional fishing techniques of Wales which pre-date the middle ages. 

Last but not least Nigel Pert and I have produced a bi-lingual photographic history book of the Brest festivals which we were showing and selling. Nigel, who lives in Normandy, has worked at every festival, often as one of its official photographers. 

A major feature at each Brest event has been the Chantier Guip, which more or less presents itself doing ‘business as usual’ with open boat sheds showing how its various current restorations are coming along. The heritage skills village was based around the site with a range of displays from the amazing historical photos of traditional local maritime life by Jacques de Thézac to Mickael Eymann’s boat drawings on a coaster, made to request. The village was presided over by Chantier du Guip’s Yann Mauffret and Marie Tabarly, fresh from her line honours win in the third leg of the Ocean Globe Race – beating her late father Eric’s record in his 73ft ketch Pen Duick VI. 

Of course it was an even better sight to see Marie sailing the original Pen Duick, her father and grandfather’s Fife cutter built in 1898. 

There was a Nuff (if I can coin a collective noun) of pilot cutters, from the French built but very British Jolie Brise of 1913; the Pill-built Marguerite of 1893 and Letty of 1905, plus two Luke Powell boats – the 2008 Tallulah and Pellew, 2020 – at 68ft (21m) LOA his latest and largest build. Unfortunately, in a manoeuvre apparently known as the “twat lap”, Pellew caught Classic Sailing’s Tallulah’s shrouds and ripped out her topmast. “We’re giving her the one from Agnes,” a rather glum Luke explained the next morning.

After long days in the village the late late nights at Brest become a bit of a challenge; we tended to find a glass of red wine at Kipperland and then a simple supper with new found friends the better option. But some of the night shows were truly spectacular. The drone show on the opening night on July 12 was a dazzling feat of engineering against the night sky as hundreds of lit drones consecutively formed the figures of a swordfish, sperm whale, bathyscape, squid and jellyfish glimmering through different colours and undulating in time to music before the astonished crowd.

There were of course fireworks on Bastille Day, and then the Nocturnal Parade on the last night – Wednesday 17th was also quite awesome as boats glid in and out of the inner harbour to music by Yann Tiersen with search lights criss-crossing the darkness of the fleet, creating theatrical pools of limelight highlighting crew or backlighting sails… All with a nod no doubt to what the sky might have looked like anticipating an air raid in World War II.

Brest ends with a parade of triumph out and down the roads hugging the famous Points of Toulinguet and Pen Hir with its famous rocky outcrops ending in the Taz de Pois (Pile of Peas). The occasion leads many of the fleet south on a day sail to Douarnenez, where another sea festival is just getting underway.

I joined the Bessie Ellen – a long held ambition, and then went into a self-muffled state of ecstasy as Captain Nikki gave me the helm and we drove out to sea in an armada of 1,000 plus boats and ships. Here was the Recouvrance; helm down a bit as she goes past in the tumbling turbulent water, and over there is the Biche, with her tunny-poles out looking like the whiskers on a lobster. But don’t gawk, you need to concentrate especially as here comes someone sailing against the fleet – like it’s just an expanded, tidal, salty version of Boulter’s Lock on a Sunday arvo. Good grief man, you must have a death wish… or maybe it’s just French insouciance. A little wave of greeting then, as he passes aft into the maelstrom of boats – the roar in the roads – for you can hardly hear yourself think against the 360° disharmony of huge gunning diesels.

So many well-known boats, often built and cared for by the coastal towns that sponsor them. It reflects a fairly new concept, known as patrimoine maritime – the caring and curation of the nation’s marine culture and artefacts. They do it so well here, in their Breton fashion. And the festival of Brest has basically led and inspired this new culture.

I hope they do it again; there has been talk they might not, with numbers down to 500,000 (330,000 of whom paid) for this eighth edition. But of course the next time we sail to France it will be under the cap of criminality, as they’ll be finger-printing us on arrival! Well there you go: carry on – this feature was brought to you with no mention of Brexit.

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How to Nominate

• Email the Classic Boat editor at steffan@classicboat.co.uk
• Subject line: Awards 2025
• Include brief details of the boat and work done, including the boat’s name, designer, builder/restorer, year of build and restoration, length, rig (or power installation) and the yard where the bulk of the work was done.
• Don’t forget – one or two high-res photos of the boat under sail if possible.

We also potentially have two people categories: person of the year and lifetime achievement. There is no published shortlist for this, but all suggestions are welcome.

The winners will be announced in our May 2025 issue.

Have your say, submit a nomination for the Classic Boat Awards now!

The 2024 Classic Boat Awards

The 2024 awards and ceremony were a great success. We celebrated a remarkable list of wooden boats old and new with an audience packed full of designers, builders, owners and other central figures in the classic sailing community around the world, from the British Isles, to the shores of Europe and North America. Take a look at last years winners.

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Over the past few months, the AC75s of the 37th America’s Cup, and the AC40s of the inaugural Women’s and Youth America’s Cups, have been showing off their wings, foiling along the coastline of Barcelona, Spain. These complex machine-like boats, committed to speed and precision, are the culmination of a long and prestigious history in the world of racing – a history largely characterised by J-Class yachts. It was therefore fitting that the AC75s of this America’s Cup be joined on the water by three of the J-Class fleet – Velsheda, Svea, and Rainbow – as they competed in the 2024 J-Class World Championships. The timeless Velsheda, Svea and Rainbow are equipped with cutting edge technology, and the latest advancements in sails and components, yet serve as the perfect reminder of America’s Cup, and yacht racing history.

From the 7th-11th October, the days before the Italians beat the British team in the Women’s America’s Cup Final, and INEOS Britannia had similar misfortune against the Kiwis in the Men’s, the J-Class yachts took the water, with two windward-leeward races each day.

From Velsheda, lovingly maintained since her launch in 1933, to Svea and Rainbow, recent builds from original J designs, the three-strong fleet reflected the full design history of the class as they competed for the title. After some brilliant and demanding racing, not least on ‘Big Wednesday’, where Barcelona saw winds peaking at nearly 30 knots with big waves, Svea took the overall win, a clear victory – having already won the title with a race to spare! 

Final standings after seven races:

1 Svea J/S1: 1,2,1,2,2,1,1 10pts 

2 Velsheda K7: 2,1,2,1,3,3,3 15pts 

3 Rainbow J-KZ: 13,4(DNC), 3,3,1,2,2, 18pts  

Steve Hayles, Svea’s navigator, commented: “This has been a three-year project that our two owners put together a while ago, and this is the culmination of that. It has been a nerve-wracking week with all sorts of conditions and so great to come out ahead of great competition. But these are such amazing boats. I think everyone who has been involved has been blown away and everyone who has been watching has been saying lovely things about the boats.’

The Swedish flagged Svea, based on an original design by Swede Tore Holm, was not the only boat representing this Scandinavian country in Barcelona. Indeed we saw the Swedish Challenge Women’s Team powered by Artemis Technologies fighting it out in the semi-final where, out of 12 teams, they achieved 4th overall.

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We caught up with the Boat Building Academy at the Southampton Boat Show, who were showing off some of their latest student led builds…

The Boat Building Academy offers world leading courses in to professionals, while also creating brilliant opportunities for beginners and enthusiasts. Since 1997, when Tim Gedge founded the Academy, this Lyme Regis (Dorset) based school has trained over 2500 people, helping them go on to work in the industry worldwide. 

The BBA offer a 40-week boat building course, a 12-week furniture making course, and 1-15 day short courses. The 40-week boat building course incorporates the City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in boat building, System Engineering & Maintenance (Advanced) (2473-03), but it also reaches far beyond the basics, helping students to develop a wide range of skills and methods, both traditional and contemporary, to take them into their careers. The course runs twice through the year – one starting in mid-February 2025, and the next from the start of September – both with a 40-week duration and 2-week break in the middle. The BBA also offers bursary assisted places.

From the Founder – Tim Gedge

‘My concept was very much geared to people looking for a new way of life, in other words a sort of change of career, and it’s been hugely gratifying to me over the years to see the numbers of people we’ve had on the boat building courses, and more recently in the furniture making courses, who have actually been snapped up by the industry who are getting decent good jobs. I’ve bumped into three people just walking around the show [Southampton Boat Show] now, who’ve done the course, and thanked me for teaching them into their new career’ 

‘A lot of people… who have university degrees… come and get their job out of doing the boat building course that they’ve done – not using their degree… there’s a message there.’

Latest BBA News

The renowned ocean rowing boat builder Justin Adkin has rejoined the BBA team as Master boat builder.

After a time away running his own successful business, this winning skipper in the 2005/6 Atlantic Rowing Race will be teaching full time from January 2025 on the 40-week boat building course.

Will Reed, Director of the BBA said: “I am delighted Justin will be joining our brilliant team once again. His calm, unflappable character and wealth of knowledge and experience across traditional and modern boat building is perfectly suited to teaching students of all ages. He also has a great sense of humour and is a joy to be around.

“We are extremely proud of our brilliant team of tutors, who are selected not only for their exceptional boat building experience and ability, but also for their extraordinary teaching and communication skills.

“If anyone is looking for a career in boat building or would like to sign up for a hugely rewarding challenge for the sheer joy of it, they will not do better than with Justin and the excellent team of tutors at the BBA.”

Interested in taking a course?

Visit the Academy Website and Meet the team.

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Calling all boatyard managers, owners, DIY applicators professional applicators and chandlers… Antifouling does a great job of keeping hulls clean and is environmentally beneficial when preventing the spread of invasive non-native species and improving fuel efficiency. However, for these products to be government approved, they must be assessed for risk against the environment and human health. This is largely dependent on boat owners and marine workers using the correct procedures when applying the antifouling products.

Human and Environmental Safety

The British Coatings Federation (BCF) ran a survey back in 2015 to determine the extent people protect themselves with personal protective equipment. With a great response rate, the BCF, British Marine, the RYA, and the Yacht Harbour Association produced a number of leaflets with advice on best practices, to promote human and environmental safety.

• The “Protect, Collect & Dispose” initiative which focussed on environmental best practice which antifouling yachts and boats;
• the “Controlling Antifouling Washings from Shipyards” leaflet which focusses on best practice to prevent release of antifouling paints to the environment; and
• “DIY application of antifouling paints” which contains guidance and best practices on application of paints.

However, use of these paints may become restricted to strictly professional applicators due to their hazardous nature and concerns over risks. Antifouling manufacturers are keen to understand the how aware DIY applicators and boat owners are of the risks and need for protective gear, and the measures they take to prevent damage to their health and the environment.

Fill out the BCF Survey

Choose the antifouling survey that most applies to you:

• For Boatyard managers / owners

• For DIY applicators 

• For professional applicators

• for Chandlers

The survey will run from 4th September – 30th November 2024.

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The Big Class for Copa del Rey consisted of three schooners, Viveka, Mariette and Orianda together with four Fifes: the 15-M yachts The Lady Anne, Mariska and Tuiga; and Hallow’een. The beautiful and well-sailed The Lady Anne was victorious with three straight bullets over Mariska, with Keith Mills’ Viveka taking third to prevent a Fife one two three four! The most exciting racing of the regatta was in the vintage gaff class, where the New York 40 Rowdy, which recently replaced her Bermudan rig with the original gaff, went head to head with fellow NY40 Chinook. Chinook won, but only seconds separated the two in every race, the boats living up to their nickname of the ‘Fighting Forties’.

The tacking duels were spectacular. As last in year’s regatta, the vintage Bermudan class was won by the S&S yawl Comet, with the Alden sloop Sonata in second and Tara Getty’s recently-restored S&S yawl Baruna in third. In the Classics Class, Barbara Trilling’s Holman and Pye-designed Argos continued her winning ways with the Buchanan Crivizza second and the S&S One-tonner Clarionet in third. Christian Oldendorff’s Spirit 52 won the spirit-of-tradition class with the S&S Cleste De Mer in second.

Mariska

The famous Fife classic yachts Mariquita and Mariska were declared sold at a Paris auction, for hammer prices of, respectively, E420,000 and E320,000.

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Founded in 1967, Suffolk Yacht Harbour is packed with a wide array of facilities, including the largest boat lifting and launching facilities from Yorkshire to the Solent on the south coast. This 550-berth leading independent marina will take on two new businesses under their existing brands – OneSails GBR (East) and Evolution Rigging. Located on site at SYH, the move of these two businesses, formerly owned by John Parker, will help to continue SYH’s strategy to supply berth holders and marine visitors with a one-stop-shop and continue it’s reputation as marine hub.

SYH Managing Director Joshua Major commented, “OneSails and Evolution Rigging already
work closely with our team, they are part of the fabric of SYH, so this is a natural progression for all parties. The existing staff will continue to work as normal; it’s very much business as usual.”

SYH Chairman Jonathan Dyke added, “SYH has worked with John Parker, the previous owner of the two businesses, for nearly 40 years so we have in-depth knowledge of the staff, customers, products, and expectations going forwards. We will continue to build on the solid foundations established by John and his team, ensuring customer service remains of the utmost importance.”

John Parker has been around since the chaotic days of measure and cut, before CAD design and laser cutting, and he will continue to work as a consultant to aid business continuity.

John Parker said, “OneSails and Evolution Rigging are in safe hands under SYH ownership.
They have close experience and knowledge of both businesses, which I am sure will thrive
under the new management. Having been a sailmaker for over 40 years it is in my DNA and that doesn’t just go away overnight. I will continue to work with the team to ensure a smooth transition for customers, staff, and suppliers.”

Take a look at our recent article on How Sailmaking is Changing: Cutting Edge Recyclable Sails and John Parker’s work.

Visit the Suffolk Yacht Harbour website for more info.

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La Rochelle is hosting the world renowned nautical and pyro-digital show. Organised by The Grand Pavois, and produced by longstanding partners RUGGIERI, this year’s show celebrates it’s 50th anniversary with Les Minimes marina. Under the direction of David Proteau (RUGGIERI) and Alain Ponchon (The Grand Pavois), Voiles de Nuit is a large scale eco-friendly boat show and festival for the marine industry, delving into history and modernity, celebrating pyrotechnics, light projections, and music.

Alain Pochon, President of Grand Pavois Organisation commented:

“It is a real pleasure and a great honour to celebrate Voiles de Nuit together again! It will undeniably be exceptional… Exceptional, because it will celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Grand Pavois La Rochelle; which has become with time and passion a world-renowned event that makes our city proud. We are delighted to make it this year, even if we never forget that we dependent on the weather.
Whatever happens, The Grand Pavois 2024, our international afloat boat show, will take place from the 1st to the 6th of October, and will offer to our professional exhibitors and the general public an innovative, creative, hard-hitting and festive time. The Grand Pavois La Rochelle, has grown and evolved to become what it is today
with the Minimes marina. It is an intimately story that we will be celebrating on Saturday the 5th of October with Voile de Nuit”.

In the evening on Saturday 5th October, against the backdrop of the city sea-facing ramparts and towers, visitors will be treated to an unmissable show of music, fireworks and lights.

Themed Zones of Voiles de Nuit

Boats afloat and ashore, Multihull space, Equipment space, Services and Tourism spaces, Charter & Cruising space (new), Heritage & Know-How space (formerly Heritage & Tradition); Fishing & Grand Pavois Fishing space; Grand Pavois Beach (new); Event Boats space; Trial Boats space; Guest of Honour space; Eco-navigation & Sustainable Innovations space with EDF…

Key Info

Venue: Port des Minimes in La Rochelle, France.
Dates: Tuesday the 1st to Sunday the 6th of October 2024
Opening hours: 10 am to 7pm Tuesday to Saturday, closing at 6pm on Sunday
Visitors: 80,000 visitors expected over 6 days
Guest of honour 2024: The Basque Country (France)

More Info & Tickets for Voiles de Nuit

Buy Tickets for €14 or visit the show’s website for more info.

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Here’s a peek into the latest Classic Boat news – the new October issue is out now…

The unmissable Adela takes over this month’s front cover… This great WC Storey schooner, started in the heat of the big yacht restoration movement, now under new ownership, she is back on the race course…. Nigel Sharp reports.

Southampton Boat Show is finally here, and in the new October issue we’ve got a full guide for the 55th edition of this boating festival. Better yet, we’ve also got an exclusive ticket offer for you!

Great British boatbuilding is booming… our new October issue of Classic Boat delves into some of the yards keeping the tradition afloat today.

Remember the brilliant Brigitte Bardot and those beautiful boats in Saint-Tropez? This month you’re in for a treat – photographer David Yarrow has recreated these wonder years, and it’s all in the new October issue.

Classic Boat Columnists

Are chandlers changing? Tom Cunliffe muses on rising prices and going to the chandlery the good old days, but naturally he’s has found a way around this…

What is a Thames barge skipper’s most feared cargo? Safety at sea is something you can never ever take too seriously, Dave Selby tells us of the dangers of tea at sea…

There is plenty more in our latest issue. We hope you enjoy it.

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Classic Yachts 2024

The front cover says it all, Classic Yachts 2024 is showing off the world’s most beautiful boats… and much more.

It’s time to look back at the year so far, and what a 2024 it’s been! With the RNLI reaching 200 centuries and the 80th anniversary of D-Day, there was plenty of history to reflect on. But it’s not all in the past, this year has seen some exciting restorations, brilliant racing and expert boatbuilding.

This year’s issue also looks back at the excitement of the 2024 Ocean Globe Race, and the Tabarly Triumph that jogged a few memories…

Also in this issue of Classic Yachts, we cast our mind back to the great success at the Classic Boat Awards 2024… A brilliant night celebrating the best in the classic boat world.

It wouldn’t be an issue of Classic Yachts without celebrating the remarkable restorations both underway and completed. This year we’re shining a spotlight on the restored Dunkirk little ship Breda and the 2-M Princess Svanevit, but also, the long and extensive restoration of Baruna.

The Classic Yachts 2024 magazine is jam packed with remarkable stories from the Classic Boat community, in the British Isles and around the world… It’s been an exciting year of much needed refits, expert craftsmanship, and all out restorations, and there’s certainly more to come.

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