StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: sailing

Built in 1868 at Messrs. Forrestt & Son of Limehouse in London. Swedish Self-righting, pulling & sailing lifeboat in authentic livery, "Lifeboat 416" crew 10 oars and cox'n www.roddarelaget.se/english

Something about sailing that I ought to understand, but currently it is a mystery ! not my image

As we get further ahead of the WSBA yachts, the view is changing. This is the weekend of Bart's Bash.

Another view of the WSBA yachts. (Bart's Bash weekend)

Mass sailing by WSBA (the weekend of Bart's Bash)

Looking back past the mainsail to the mizzen, neither are drawing, as it is almost a flat calm.

Looking back towards the Cumbrian coast, under the mainsail boom. Not strictly sailing, there is too little breeze, so more motori.g,

Starting to unlace the cover for the mainsail.

The mizzen sail is now set, not that there is enough of a breeze to do anything. The WSBA yachts found enough of the light winds, but at 11 1/2 tons we needed to motor.

More yachts sailing off Whitehaven (This is the North Pierhead and lighthouse)

Looking out, past the West Pier lighthouse, to see a couple of yachts standing away and a small trawler heading towards home.

The "James Cook" spent quite a bit of time in Whitehaven over the summer in 2016. This was her base for a number of cruises - across to the Isle of Man / Ireland and up to the Western Isles / Oban area. James Cook is a 21 metre (70 foot), 54 tonne steel-hulled ketch owned and operated by the Ocean Youth Trust North. website : www.oytnorth.org.uk/about