a little bit of nostalgia

OMSC · 19 Jun 2009, 12:20

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=678

johnk · 19 Jun 2009, 12:31

I was there and can be seen in the fleet. The race was NOT the Burton Trophy race and the final gun was at the start of a race and not the finish.

johnk · 19 Jun 2009, 12:33

The 1954 Burton week at Southend is also somewhere in the Pathe archives. Our then Club Secretary features!

Tim Gatti · 20 Jun 2009, 11:11

Great stuff. great to see the simplicity and beautiful lines of the old designs ...but plimsols, shorts, cotton shirts and not a buoyancy aid in sight - not sure I'd want to go back to that again.
130 boats on the start line - now that's something we could aim for. Tim

johnk · 22 Jun 2009, 05:05

Found

1950 Burton at Falmouth
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=59327

1954 Burton at Southend
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=40718

1955 Burton at Plymouth
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=678 as above.
On further examination, this may have been the Burton Cup race except for the final section which looks like another race.