film Archives - Amokura: a classic boat archive https://amokura.info/tag/film/ Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:45:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://amokura.info/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/cropped-amokura-logo-A-32x32.png film Archives - Amokura: a classic boat archive https://amokura.info/tag/film/ 32 32 215361929 1953 Cine film: Amokura racing at Abersoch https://amokura.info/1953-cine-film-amokura-racing-at-abersoch/ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:29:03 +0000 https://amk.detypedev.com/?p=1742 This film was kindly shared by Sir Roger Boyle.  He describes the film as follows: ‘My father and his brother (both doctors in the Manchester area) used to escape from family duties to sail on various yachts moored at Abersoch.  There were some old eight metres of which Aspasia was the most well known, later renamed Emily.  There was a small fleet of West Solent One Designs and a couple of other famous craft.  There was a ‘double-ender’ by the name of Iris (seen in the movie) and Cohoe, made famous by Adlard Coles who won a transatlantic race in her.’  

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