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Starting in 1959 and continuing for 35 years, Jack Hargrave designed dozens of motor yachts and convertibles for Hatteras Yachts. In the mid-1970s, the OPEC oil embargo hit home, and it hit yachtsmen especially hard. One of the solutions was the Hatteras series of Long Range Cruisers from 42 to 65 feet, all designed by Hargrave. These displacement-hull yachts had smaller engines to power the boats at lower speeds and were suitable for extended cruising to remote sites (and sights). For a man who got his start with Rybovich and designed so many successful convertibles over the years, little Jack wasn’t much for sportfishing. These shippy little cruising yachts were closer to his heart. A feeling shared by the members of the Hatteras LRC Club, which was established in 1985.

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The Cruising Club of America is a group of accomplished recreational offshore sailors bound together by friendship and the desire to foster the responsibilities, expertise, and skills needed for the adventurous use of the sea.

Members volunteer to achieve the CCA’s goals by sharing experiences, organizing events on and off the water, promoting seamanship and best practices, and recognizing outstanding accomplishments by fellow members and the amateur sailing community. The Club’s initiatives put particular emphasis on safety at sea education and training, exemplary offshore yacht design and construction, and environmental stewardship.

The CCA does not have a physical headquarters. The Club exists anywhere its members come together on land and sea. In popular sailing regions, members organize into stations which host local gatherings for members and guests.

The Club is known - since shortly after its founding in 1922 - for running the biennial Newport Bermuda Race and awarding the Blue Water Medal. More recently, the CCA has added the Young Voyager Award, Roderick Stephens Seamanship Trophy, and Diana Russell Award for Innovation to honor those who represent the best of the Club’s priorities. The Club has published enduring books like Nowhere Is Too Far , Far Horizons , Desirable and Undesirable Characteristics of Offshore Yachts , Safety for Cruising Couples, and Adventurous Use of the Sea , cruising guides to the coasts of Maine, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and Labrador, and the annual publication of members’ articles, Voyages .

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Royal Cruising Club: Treasure Trove

• Ben Lowings
• February 1, 2022

Ben Lowings delves into the journals of the Royal Cruising Club to discover how yachting has changed over the decades

The Royal Cruising Club Pilotage Foundation guides cover areas off the beaten track from South America, the Arctic and the Black Sea to the Pacific's Chagos Archipelago and Ko Chang in Thailand (pictured). Credit: Anna Berkut/Alamy Stock Photo

Ben Lowings pores over the Royal Cruising Club journals and shares stories from sailing’s early pioneers

The Ria de Arousa on the Atlantic coast of Spain is a great fjord where the woodland comes down to the shore. Its rocky inlets and islands provide intricate pilotage today.

In the summer of 1882 a lieutenant, one H. Bremner of HMS Hercules , was sailing his small canoe in this area.

He flew a burgee now renowned as a badge of the owner’s deep-sea knowledge and ‘foreign-going’.

It was white and red, divided vertically. The white inner portion was charged with a black Maltese cross, edged with yellow, and bearing a yellow naval crown at its centre.

This is the flag of the Cruising Club – or as it later became, the Royal Cruising Club (RCC).

Dr. David Lewis was one of the early pioneers of high-latitude sailing and his navigation notes helped open up the region to cruising. Credit: Getty

Bremner was conducting the club’s first cruise in foreign waters. Spain was at peace, but the club history notes that he was ‘prudently armed with a revolver.’

Bremner had signed up to an exclusive outfit founded for the purposes of pleasure sailing. But its original members had something of the buccaneer about them.

To quote the original 1890 Articles, the club was to associate ‘owners of small yachts, boats, and canoes, and other persons interested in aquatic amusements, and to give members facilities for obtaining information as to the harbours and other local matters, and to circulate amongst its members accounts of interesting cruises.’

The Wolverhampton-born solicitor Arthur Underhill was the inspiration behind it.

Roving Commissions , the Royal Cruising Club journal, is an anthology of members’ cruises for the year. Credit: Royal Cruising Club

Tired of editing legal texts, he was instrumental in a deal with Hunt’s Yachting Magazine to publish cruising logs. Hunt’s goes back to 1852.

It carried all the news from the yacht clubs which then existed – essentially the big racing ones.

In those days it was as much about river and lake cruising as offshore. This was the world of Jerome K Jerome’s 1889 book Three Men in a Boat ( To Say Nothing of the Dog ) and Robert Louis Stevenson’s An Inland Voyage (an 1878 paddling canoe trip in the Low Countries).

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These early periodicals catalogue the delights of Victorian sportsmen (no women, note).

Sandwiched between the pale blue paper covers are tales from Underhill’s forays in his 46-ton auxiliary ketch Wulfruna .

A regatta in Japanese waters was one such delight.

Today the chartlets in the Imray /Royal Cruising Club Pilotage Foundation pilot books are invaluable; they can trace their origin in part to the Cruising Club charts of 1893.

The atlas, Thames Estuary and Adjacent Harbours contains only the soundings in single-digit fathoms.

The chart designers believed these depths were the only ones that a yacht of several tons and corresponding draught would be interested in.

Erskine Childers’ sailing adventures made it to the pages of the Royal Cruising Club Journal . Credit: Getty

The Thames book was followed in 1894 by a comprehensive atlas covering Ramsgate to Scilly.

Today, these materials can be found in the Royal Cruising Club’s current club rooms, housed within the Royal Thames Yacht Club at Knightsbridge in central London.

The colourful library is immaculate.

The club’s honorary archivist, Christopher Thornhill, was brimming with pride. ‘The production of such charts was a big landmark in the cruising world,’ he says.

By 1902, they covered up from the Scillies to the Mull of Kintyre.

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They ‘revolutionised sailing,’ Thornhill adds. ‘You couldn’t have them unless you were a member.’

There was an early attempt to add the ‘royal’ title to the club name. But an approach to the Prince of Wales was decided against, because the club didn’t know whether he was likely to accept.

Enthroned as Edward VII, he approved the name change in 1902.

‘His Majesty was pleased to command that in future the style of the club should be The Royal Cruising Club, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty granted a warrant to fly the blue ensign of His Majesty’s fleet.’

It was a far more controversial royal figure who had taken a much closer interest.

The RCC’s honorary archivist, Christopher Thornhill, shows Ben Lowings the library. Thornhill’s pilotage notes for the Faroe Isands are incorporated into the Royal Cruising Club Pilotage Foundation’s Arctic Waters. Credit: Jessica Vidal

In 1905, a batch of Royal Cruising Club charts were dispatched to Germany. The recipient declared he had ‘already quite enough of them.’

Kaiser Wilhelm II gave his club a signed portrait, which hung for a time behind the Royal Cruising Club rooms’ entrance door.

This grandson of Queen Victoria, it could be argued, was so desperately interested in the British yachting scene because he was so envious of it.

He was in the Royal Cruising Club at the same time as he furiously directed Germany’s naval build-up. He also encouraged German yachtsmen to spy on British shore defences.

One of them, who counted the gun emplacements at Brighton, dodged a bit of trouble because he was a Royal Cruising Club member.

German intelligence gathering was of course the subject of the 1903 novel The Riddle of the Sands , penned by Erskine, himself naturally a Royal Cruising Club chap.

High-latitude adventures are still a core part of the Royal Cruising Club, with Skip Novak recently becoming a member

The Kaiser’s portrait has been replaced by that of H.W. Tilman. This alone gives you an idea of the huge changes in yacht cruising.

The Victorian plutocrat in a steam yacht with paid hands was – over the course of 100 years – transformed into the rugged ex-military adventurer sailing polar seas in search of remote mountains to climb.

From Hunt’s to the Cruising Club Journal to the Royal Cruising Club Journal , you sense that the Royal Cruising Club is in many ways writing history’s first draft.

The Royal Cruising Club version of history is the one that seems to matter.

Christopher Thornhill has trouble remembering the name and nationality of America’s Joshua Slocum, the first lone circumnavigator.

Thornhill, now 81, can be forgiven for a name having slipped his mind. The name he is arguably more interested in is that of the Royal Cruising Club’s George Henry Pasche Muhlhauser, the first English yachtsman to sail around the world.

‘He just went with a hand and one other chap.’ Muhlhauser started in 1919 with his 54ft yawl. He died soon after his return three years later, but not without having written Cruise of the Amaryllis , which Thornhill calls a seminal book on his exploits.

Arthur Ransome’s inspirational children’s books, as well as his cruising logs, are an important part of the Royal Cruising Club library. Credit: Jessica Vidal

It seems harsh but it is probably true to say Muhlhauser is all but completely forgotten by today’s yachting community.

His polished hardwood desk – the same one which carried his charts – sits in the club room.

One would probably expect to hear that the First World War changed cruising forever, but Thornhill argues that reading the logs from 1914-19, ‘you wouldn’t even think there had been a war.’ the pioneers Erskine Childers was followed by another writer, and sometime intelligence operative, into the Royal Cruising Club annals.

Arthur Ransome’s tales of Baltic escapades with his Russian wife off the Estonian coast in Racundra are an essential chunk of the Royal Cruising Club library bookshelves.

The children’s fiction he is best remembered for also occupies a readily accessible area in the library.

Tracking the changes between the wars, it is easy to see cruises becoming longer and more involved.

More and more words are spilt and the Royal Cruising Club’s volumes become thicker.

The 1939 journal – published in 1940 – is, as Thornhill says, ‘very fat’.

The Second World War was a genuine pause in Royal Cruising Club activity.

Its journal resumes in 1947, when paid hands were no more, and cruisers encountered all sorts of problems which had to be solved by ingenuity rather than money.

One visitor to Spain, says Thornhill, had a ‘hell of a job getting petrol’.

Small yachts were becoming more seaworthy and ‘real ocean cruising’ was much more feasible. Sailing was opening up to different people in different sectors of society.

Peter and Anne Pye, Eric and Susan Hiscock, Hammond Innes, Blondie Hasler and Adlard Coles all tell their stories in the pages of the Royal Cruising Club journals.

So too the New Zealander, Dr David Lewis, and a fellow Southern Ocean venturer, Brigadier Miles Smeeton .

His much-anthologised account of a pitchpole near Cape Horn in 1957 tells how his wife Beryl was nearly swept to her death: ‘Beryl looked astern and saw an exceptional wave coming up very high and steep. Tzu Hang was dead stern on to it. She did not see how Tzu Hang could surmount it. It did not appear to be breaking or about to break, but it was the height and the steepness that made a lasting impression on her mind. The next thing that she knew was that she was being thrown head first out of the cockpit, thrown out and not washed out, and then she knew no more until she found herself in the water, the snap hook of her bodyline providentially broken, and with Tzu Hang lying, swept clean and dismasted, 30 yards away.’

Ben Lowings works for the BBC World Service and has sailed dinghies and yachts from the Norwegian Arctic to New Zealand. He also skippers commercial yacht deliveries around Britain. He has written two books, The Chancellor , a biography of the yachtsman George Millar, and The Dolphin , a biography of Dr David Lewis.

These close calls embody the adventurous spirit of Tilman’s Royal Cruising Club. It still lives.

One recent recruit, Skip Novak, through his voyages in Pelagic Australis , has sparked the dreams of many of us who yearn for high-latitude voyages.

The honorary archivist himself is also a good example. Thornhill’s 40ft teak Sparkman and Stephens yawl Sai See probed northern Europe from the Baltic to Iceland.

He wrote pilotage notes for the Faroe Islands, which are incorporated into the Royal Cruising Club Pilotage Foundation’s Arctic Waters pilot.

Sailing in the polar regions is perhaps an old-fashioned idea but the Royal Cruising Club thinks it an activity still worth pursuing.

Thornhill, for his part, deeply regrets the advent of GPS in the 1990s, along with most other boat electronics.

In 1991, Thornhill sailed with his godson from Shetland to the Lofoten Islands in Norway and taught him to use a sextant.

He smiles as he tells me his erstwhile pupil has since sailed himself around the world. With an AIS receiver, a GPS set and chartplotter , Thornhill argues, navigation is ‘pretty easy to do’.

You might as well ‘be sitting in your bedroom’, he adds.

Whatever you think of that opinion, the writings of Royal Cruising Club members can certainly take you sailing from your bedroom.

The Royal Cruising Club journals – containing 3,000 articles – are searchable by cruising area and accounts of the previous year’s trips are available for £20.

Dive in. They provide great perspectives on the history of cruising that have stood the test of time.

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It also publishes its own guides and pilot books for areas where limited demand does not justify large print runs.

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• Length – 29.5′
• Beam – 10.4′
• Draft – 5.2′
• Furling Main – No
• Head- Manual
• Canvas- N/A

Boat names: Dee, Louis

Oceanis 30.1

Voilier Océanis 30.1,shooting Groupe Bénéteau en Finlande

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2022 Oceanis 30.1

• Length – 31’2”
• Beam – 9’8”
• Draft – 6’1”

Boat Name: Ms NautiGirl

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2010, 2011 Oceanis 34 (2 in Fleet)

• Length – 33′ 11″
• Draft – 6′ 1″‘

Boat name: Ruth, Kayleigh

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2019 Capri 22

• Capacity – 5
• Length – 22′
• Cabins- N/A
• Head- Enclosed

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Silver Lin 3

2015 Oceanis 35

Boat name: Silver Lining

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2023 Oceanis 34.1

• Length – 35.4
• Beam – 11.9
• Draft – 6.5

Boat name: Bijou

Hyannis Port Yacht Club

- Founded 1909, Incorporated 1966 -

Cruising Class

The Hyannis Port Yacht Club holds two races for cruising yachts, The Senator’s Cup in July and the McKelvy Cup in August.  

The Senator's Cup had its inaugural July Cruising Class race in 2020 when the Class put into competition a perpetual trophy to honor Senator Kennedy whose daily sails on Mya inspired many members of the cruising class's love of sailing and competition.  

Prior to the race each year, the race participants will sail past the Hyannis Port Pier to salute the Senator's Cup Honorary Captain. The Fleet will select an individual who has made great contributions to our Hyannis Port community through voluntary service to serve as Honorary Captain.   In 2020, the Fleet proudly selected Liz Mumford as the Senator’s Cup inaugural Honorary Captain.

The McKelvy Cup began in 1969 then commodore John E. McKelvy, Jr. donated a silver trophy to HPYC in honor of his late father John E. McKelvy, who had been a longtime club supporter and former treasurer. A sailing race was established for the handicap cruising class, the winner of which was to be awarded the John E. McKelvy Memorial Trophy. The competition was was held annually from 1969 through 1972 when interest seemed wane and the handsome prize was retired. 

With the trophy out of sight for the next three decades, the existence of the race was virtually forgotten when John McKelvy, Jr.’s widow, Nancy, came upon the "cup" in her barn in 2004. She generously offered it to the club if we wished to revive the competition. Tim O’Keeffe organized the first “new” McKelvy Trophy race in the summer of 2004 and the cup has been sailed for every year since. 

The Senator’s Cup will be raced Sunday, July 11 and The McKelvy Cup will be raced Sunday, August 29th.

*Please submit all inquiries regarding the HPYC Cruising Class via our Contact page.

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 The ATYC represents over 30 Thames based boat clubs. Below is the list of the Association's current member clubs. Each listing provides a brief outline of each club and contact details.   

Albany Motor Yacht Club

Albany Motor Yacht Club (AMYC) is a very social, friendly, fun loving club based on the River Thames.  We run a varied calendar of events both non-tidal, tidal and purely social. 

Benfleet Yacht Club

The Benfleet Yacht Club is a large and friendly club situated along the shore of Benfleet Creek, on the northern coast of Canvey Island, Essex. 

Brentford Cruising Club

Brentford Cruising Club (BCC) is a friendly, active and well established yacht club based at Brentford Dock Marina, offering river cruising, social events, courses & training.

Broom Owners Club

City livery yacht club.

Do you own a motor cruiser built by C J Brooms or Broom Boats of Brundall, Norfolk, UK? If so then this is the club for you; irrespective of size, age or build material. 

All are welcome to join and access our wealth of Broom information & knowledge

 The City Livery Yacht Club offers sailing, boating and socialising opportunities to its members, even those who are just interested in ‘messing about in boats’ or who just like to meet and chat about their boating experiences. 

Dockland Scout Project

 Based in the West India Dock Complex to the east side of London, we offer the perfect location for Water Activities, Open Days and formal training courses to youth groups and adults involved in organisations such as Scouts, Guides, Cadets. 

Hurlingham Yacht Club

International yachting fellowship of rotarians.

 For nearly 100 years the Hurlingham Yacht Club has been a small, friendly club for both boating enthusiasts and locals alike, located near Putney Bridge, London SW15

 The International Yachting Fellowship of Rotarians began in England in 1947 and is the oldest and largest of the Rotary Fellowships. There are 11 UK fleets 126 fleets World Wide. 

Island Yacht Club

 The Island Yacht Club in Essex is a superb sailing environment less than an hour from London, boasting some of the finest sailing waters in the UK.

Little Ship Club

Oxford ditch cruising club, middle thames yacht club.

The Little Ship Club is a yacht club for sailors, motor boaters and non-sailors alike. Our beautiful clubhouse is right by Southwark Bridge on the Thames in London where our members enjoy good company, excellent food and a great social calendar.

The Middle Thames Yacht Club enjoys a fantastic location on Sunbury Lock Island on the River Thames. Our location offers which allows for some terrific cruises both up- and down- river, and further afield. Visitors are always welcome, please contact us.

We are a group of boaters who value our reputation as one of the friendliest clubs on the river. Our water-borne events include rallies and sociable activities held on the river bank. We stage events at various locations for socializing and eating. 

Richmond Yacht Club

St. pancras cruising club.

One of the oldest motor cruising clubs on the tidal Thames, based on Eel Pie Island in Twickenham since 1962. With a waterside location and a brilliant clubhouse with bar for parties the RYC is the place to be on a nice summers day to watch the boats go by

Star Craft Owners Club

 The Star Craft Owners’ Club, started by a group of devoted owners in 1993, is dedicated to the preservation and enjoyment of these classic wooden motor cruisers, built between 1946 and 1975 by William Bates & Son in Chertsey, Surrey. 

St Pancras Cruising Club (SPCC) is based near Kings Cross on the Regent's Canal. We organise regular cruises on the Thames Tideway between Brentford, Limehouse and Bow Creek.  The Club also welcomes anyone interested in boating and inland waterways. 

Thames Motor Yacht Club

Upper thames motor yacht club, thames vintage boat club.

 The TMYC is one of the best located boating clubs on the River Thames, situated amongst picturesque grounds in Hampton Court with its own club-house, a riverside bar and galley and moorings for member boats. 

The Club was founded in 1983 and now has a membership of around 230. It provides a forum for owners and users of traditionally built craft and seeks to encourage their restoration, maintenance and use. We hold social gatherings and rallies in the Middle Thames area and organise excursions. Our magazine The Boater appears three times a year. 

 We are a friendly boating club on the Thames with about 200 members. Between us we own some 80 boats of all ages and sizes up to about 40 feet. We have a spacious clubhouse with a bar and moorings. 

Windsor Yacht Club

 The Club was founded in 1976 and our club house enjoys a riverside location at MDL Marina (between Windsor and Bray). 

Whatever the size of your boat, whether you are working or retired, a family or single you can be assured of a warm welcome.

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25m Mangusta motor yacht Toy rejoins market

The 25-metre Mangusta motor yacht Toy has rejoined the market with Marcello Maggi of Marcello Maggi Yacht Boutique.

Built in GRP, Toy was delivered from Italian builder Overmarine in 2018 as a Mangusta 80 HT model. RINA classed and MCA compliant, she was designed inside and out by Andrea Bacigalupo and has only been used privately.

She features a custom contemporary interior, which can sleep up to six guests in three staterooms with further quarters for a crew of two.

The yacht for sale is powered by twin MTU 16V 2000 diesel engines with an impressive top speed of 45 knots and a cruising speed of 40 knots. She has a range of 250 nautical miles.

Toy  is asking €2,800,000.

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Four Seasons is already famous for its over-the-top private jet itineraries that have travelers with deep pockets flying between world-famous landmarks, cosmopolitan cities and adventures in national parks, safari camps and everything in between.

Now, Four Seasons is unveiling its first set of luxury cruise itineraries on the soon-to-launch collection of Four Seasons Yachts, which were initially announced back in 2022 .

For its inaugural season (assuming the ship-building process continues without any hiccups), discerning travelers can visit the Caribbean between January and March 2026 on seven-night sailings that include tropical destinations like St. Barts, Nevis, the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Barbados, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Curacao and Aruba.

For example, the " Lesser Antilles Featuring Nevis & the Grenadines " cruise, which starts at $19,900 per suite, leaves Philipsburg, St. Maarten, and has full anchored days in destinations like Gustavia, St. Barts, and Charlestown, Nevis, alongside a full beach day and a sailing day before anchoring in Barbados.

In Europe, sailings around the Mediterranean will launch in March 2026, with stops at ports in Croatia, Gibraltar, Montenegro, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Turkey.

Starting at $28,500 per suite, the nine-night " Grand Mediterranean Featuring Saint-Tropez & Trapani " departs Malaga, Spain, and cruises the Mediterranean Sea before making stops in beautiful spots like La Joliette and St-Tropez in France, two ports in Italy (including Sicily), and Gozo and Valletta in Malta.

Or, if Greece is on the mind, the " Greek Isles featuring Santorini & Mykonos " itinerary, starting at $19,700 per suite, will take travelers from Athens to Greek stops like Santorini, Ios, Milos and Mykonos. It will also include a stop outside of Greece in Didim, Turkey.

As for the ships themselves, would-be Four Seasons cruisers should expect the best of the best, including 95 suites that range from 500 to 10,000 square feet and feature modern design, indoor and outdoor spaces, Four Seasons signature mattresses and bedding, twice-daily housekeeping, 24-hour dining, an on-call concierge, tablets that control the room, and a minimum of a 55-inch TV with streaming capabilities, among other perks.

For even more space, choose a Funnel or Loft suite. They will include multiple bedrooms, splash pools, outdoor showers and plenty of space to spread out and relax.

Throughout the ships, sailors can take advantage of 11 different restaurants and bars, a spa, a pool (that can be converted to a deck for private events) and a 1:1 guest-to-staff ratio.

If you're interested in joining one of these cruises, head to the Four Seasons Yachts contact page to sign up for more information.