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Oldest videos of sailing in Falmouth, UK

by Magnus Smith 1 Nov 2023 23:59 GMT
Tangaroa in Falmouth 1955 © Ocean Cruising Club

Our video archive is fully searchable, and linked to all the clubs and classes in our database. It is updated weekly with the latest videos of sailing, but here we delve into the past, and round-up everything that shows sailing at Falmouth in the south-west of England.

The oldest video is from 1931 and shows two J Class yachts 'Shamrock' and 'Britannia' racing in 1931.

One of the first dinghy racing classes had huge fleet numbers. The latter half of this video shows the International 14 class National Championships 1938.

Falmouth sailing in 1950 shows a family in a gaff-rigged open boat, and also includes the Sunbeam class later on.

Our last video from the analogue era, before everything went digital, is the BT British Match Racing Finals 1998

More links to videos:

Sir Robin Knox-Johnston returning to Falmouth aboard Suhaili to become the first person to complete a solo non-stop circumnavigation - photo © Bill Rowntree / PPL
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston returning to Falmouth aboard Suhaili to become the first person to complete a solo non-stop circumnavigation - photo © Bill Rowntree / PPL

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