Author: Eric

This is Sheila on April 11, 1980.

She was parading for the Albert Strange Association AGM, along with Firefly.

The newly reinvented water line was not quite right yet.

Thank you Jamie for the picture !

Sheila (1905) est le plus ancien plan Albert Strange en navigation. Ce petit yawl aurique est restée identique et intacte. C’est un témoignage de son temps, la Belle-Epoque, et des rêves des précurseurs de la navigation de plaisance.

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If you think you know her already, but would like to see her just a bit again …

… this video is meant to present Sheila to more people like you, and also to the people in Brittany who are only discovering her.

Enjoy !

I am very proud and happy that the little canoe-yawl was distinguished and chosen by the team at “Grande Régates de Port-Navalo 2026″

This yearly event was initiated on 30 June 1894 by Société des Régates de Vannes (SRV) and will take place on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th of July.

Many thanks !

Thanks to Jamie Clay and the Albert Strange Association, Sheila is in Classic Boat, the great British magazine, this month.

It is the third time she attracts attention in Classic Boat (after September 1988 and November 2016.)

Well done Jamie ! Many thanks !

https://www.classicboat.co.uk/news/where-are-albert-stranges-yachts-now

Season greetings to all the lovers of our 120 years old princess !

This year she was gifted with articles in :

• The Albert Strange Association Yearbook
• Le Chasse Marée
• La Revue du Yacht Club Classique
• L’Echo de la Presqu’ile Guérandaise et de Saint-Nazaire
• Voiles & Voiliers
• The Humber Yawl Club Yearbook (for the first time since 1921)

Sheila survives because anyone who sees her sailing will fall in love.
So, she needs to sail to survive. And so she did in 2025.

And because we want her to outlive us all, she needs to be a bit famous.

This year was a good year.

Take a look at the November 2025 release of “Voiles & Voiliers”. It includes 6 pages on Sheila with wonderful pictures and a full article by talented Olivier Bourbon.

A big thank you to him, and to Stéphane who managed the logistics.

Voiles & Voiliers is the leading French sailing magazine.

Trophies chest

… a big thank you to the teams at YCC and YCLB

Sheila had a great Voiles de Légende regatta. Many thanks from the crew to the teams at Yacht Club de la Baule and Yacht Club Classique for their kindness, attentions and good spirit. We want to come back !

Sheila left the Golfe at 8 this morning with 34 nautical miles to cover before reaching La Baule- Le Pouliguen.