October 13, 2017

vanishing sail at st leonards-on-sea: the global community grows

I was at a screening of the film Vanishing Sail at St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex last night. St Leonards, on the face of it, isn’t the most obvious place in the world to show a film about wooden boat-building on a Caribbean beach.

But on the night, the atmospheric Kino Teatr, with freestanding armchair seats and a bar at the back, was packed. Sailing clubs in Kent and East Sussex, and the army of those who have been following the film’s journey via social media, were clearly not going to miss their opportunity to see Vanishing Sail on a big screen.

Plus, as I said in my introduction to the screening, wooden boat building might not be as strong in the south east as it was a couple of generations ago, but those still building in timber here today are among the most respected names in the wooden boat world.

Read full review by Rob Peake, Editor of Classic Boat Magazine