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Yacht Designer and Master Boatbuilder, John Mullins : 1938

Brightlingsea One Design number 31 Blue Peter was built in 1961 by John Mullins © Mullins family John Mullins was a designer and builder of World Championship winning Dragon, Soling and Brightlingsea One Design boats. In addition he designed and built many successful sailing dinghies, cruising yachts and motor launches. Starting as a shipwright in the 1950s, John was known for always doing a job properly, and worked up to be a respected consultant for Petticrows and owned his own boatbuilding business. As a keen helmsman he won his class at several Essex sailing club race weeks. John passed away in December 2020. 1938 - 1953

Star World Championship to be held at Kiel Week: The class of sailing legends

Star World Championship to be held at Kiel Week: The class of sailing legends by Hermann Hell 5 May 19:20 UTC 31 August - 12 September 2021 Robert Scheidt entered the Kiel Week winners list in the Laser and Star. The five-time Olympic medalist won Kiel Week 2010 in the Star with Bruno Prada. © M. Könitzer The Star World Championship returns to Kiel. And this September, two events are on the schedule at once. For the Junior Star World Championship (August 31 to September 3) 40 boats are expected and for the Star World Championship (September 4 to 11) no less than 80 of the two-man keelboats are expected. Due to the relocation of the Kiel Week from June to September, the Star World Championships will be part of the Kiel Week 2021. The former Star Boat World President, DSV President and KYC Commodore Dierk Thomsen (Kiel), who died in 2020, had last brought the Star European Championships to Kiel, and now the Star fleet is competing for the fifth t

World s coolest yachts: Tornado catamaran

Yachting World 0shares We ask top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times. This month, Carolijn Brouwer nominates the Tornado catamaran “The Tornado catamaran is a really cool boat. It was my introduction to high performance sailing and it had a big influence on me in many ways. “Once you get a taste for it, there is no way back. Sailing the Tornado opened up different doors for me in my sailing career,” says Carolijn Brouwer. The Tornado catamaran was for many years the fastest Olympic sailing class and was the first catamaran to be introduced to the Olympic Games. It was first sailed in the 1976 Olympic Games and saw its last Olympic appearance in 2008.

The winningest Wise Man - Charles Currey

(L-R) Austin Farrar, Charles Currey, Bruce Banks, Keith Shackleton © Austin Farrar Collection / D Chivers This next instalment in the Wise Men series of articles will be something of a departure from the norm. Up until now, with the exception of Jon Turner, the wise men that have been featured have all been innovators who sailed, whereas Charles Currey was an incredible sailor, who at the same time was also a clever and insightful innovator. This though is far more than just a question of semantics, for that distinction of being first and foremost one of the best sailors in a generation that was so rich in talent is a ringing endorsement of our subject, Charles Currey.

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