The Wave: Bristol Channel Pilot Cutters
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The Wave
Summer 2009

  • From the editor & news of the cutters
  • Olga is 100 years old by Fred Evans
  • The Autumn meeting at Gweek by Anna Brunyee
  • Recollections of the 2008 races by Diccon Pridie
  • Mascotte’s people, pilotage and profit by Tony Winter
  • Marian’s (nearly) awfully big adventure by Dominic Ziegler
  • Dolphin’s centenary by Tim Pratt
  • Norman Alexander – a personal tribute by Malcolm McKeand

The Wave
Summer 2008

  • From the Chairman
  • News of Cutters
  • Racing Reports by Tony Winter
  • Olga's new deck by Fred Evans
  • The Model Makers by Michael Verney and Alan Pugh
  • St. Mawes 2007 by Tim Pratt
  • Pilot Cutters Interiors

The Wave
Summer 2007

  • From the Chairman
  • News of Cutters
  • John Rich - A Memoir
  • Swimming in Norway by Roger Capps
  • Racing Reports by Tony Winter
  • Hirta's mid-life crisis by Martin Grimwade
  • Frolic and Letty by Malcolm McKeand
  • The Bristol Channel Race by Tony Winter
  • Pilot Cutters in the Bristol Channel
    (a poem by C.L. "Stormy" Davies)

The Wave
Summer 2006

  • From the editor
  • 'Alpha' in the Baltic, by Willem Scholtes
  • Racing reports, by Tony Winter
  • 'Olga' in 2005, by Fred Evans
  • 'Marguerite' 2004-05, by Anna Brunyee and Colin Campbell
  • Never listen to pub yarns, by Peter Stuckey
  • 'Cornubia's rebuild, by Tony Winter

The Wave
Summer 2005

  • From the editors
  • Association debate
  • 'Cariad's centenary story, by Tim Pratt
  • 'Alpha's centenary story , by Tim Pratt
  • 'Alpha': A Dutchman's love affair, by Willem Scholtes
  • 'Peggy's 100th year, by Diccon Pridie
  • 'Peggy's centenary story, by Tim Pratt
  • 'Baroque' in Sweden, by Tina Trollmo and Martin Rogetzky
  • 'Mascotte's centenary story, by Tim Pratt
  • From Falmouth Eastwards, by Roger Capps

The Wave
Spring 2002

  • From the editor
  • Thoughts on heaving-to in pilot cutters, by Andrew Craig-Bennett
  • Being an attempt at a trip to Cork, a few days before
  • Christmas, by Roger Capps
  • The performance of gaff-rigged sailing cutters, by Ed Burnett
  • Pictures from earlier Race Weeks

The Wave
Summer 2000

  • From the Editor
  • Last Summer's Races
  • Pill, the village of Pilots, by C E Keeling
  • 'Dolphin': A Biscay crossing, by Roger Capps
  • 'Marguerite' transatlantic passage, by John Steele

The Wave
Summer 1999

  • Editor's introduction
  • A preview of the summer races, by Tony Winter
  • The early history of the Bristol Pilots, by John Rich
  • 'Peggy, ex-'Wave: A lot of rot, by Diccon Pridie
  • The Bristol Channel Pilots: The customer's view, by Andrew
  • Craig-Bennett
  • Scuttlebutt, with contributions from Pip Masters, Adam Bergius
  • 'Kindly Light': An update on her rebuild, by Malcolm McKeand.

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