Cruising to round Cape Horn, rowing down the Mississippi, surveying epoxy and serving with marline… it’s another packed issue! The paper version sold out but you can still read it online (see link below).
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This 100-page e-Magazine is just over 54mb in size. It’s a straight copy of the American A4 (12 x 9inches) paper equivalent.
Here’s the summary:
Editorial: It’s floods. Once they get serious how do you navigate?
Signals: The Cowes yard fire; fake lifejackets; racing down under; Gaffers shall go to the Brest ball; London Boat Show and what was missing
Around the yards: Devon Wooden Boats; Classic Marine moves to Suffolk Yacht Harbour; Ashley Butler buys a yard, and looking for a large shed
Association news: OGA honours Ed Burnett; Seagull races, Rivals, Twisters, Strange yacht
Obituary: Roger Wardale: Chronicler of Arthur Ransome’s boats
Classic Coast: Orfordness Lighthouse
Smylie’s boats: Itchen Ferry
The Post: The livelier letters pages
Andrew Bray: How, and why, to speak ‘boat’
Guest column: Sam Lewellyn cracks us up by going onto a forum and asking a simple question about kit.
Nardi’s nods: IW 31 Varvet – more insight into GRP classics
COVER STORY The Twister that went to Cape Horn 26: Trevor Clifton tells us what he likes about his Twister Cracklin’ Rosie
Dutch classic capers: Sue Lewis and Victoria enjoy racing at Hellevoetsluis
People of the Sea: Clifford Adams: Still building Redwings at 91
Sumurun’s transatlantic run: A galley’s eye view of the 101-year-old Fife’s eventful, magical passage
Rowing: Down the Misissippi in a Thames skiff: What Olympic champion John Pritchard did to fund-raise for charity
Marine Motorist: First Lady of power: Lady Violet Aitken, her boats, her races, her broken ribs. Brandy
On Watch and Over the Yardarm: Spotted at the London Boat Show, and Whiskey with an ‘E’
Off Watch: the boat’s bookshelf: First Atlantic Race, East Coast Pilot, Return of Racundra and more
An instructor’s tale: Sometimes you say something simple, but it gets misinterpreted
Boat skills: docking: Lines and fenders at the ready? Space spotted? Now to get into it
Surveying: Epoxy: Wonderful stuff, but you have to watch out, says Aidan Tuckett
Restoring a Mirror dinghy: the big finish: It’s time to put on the paint.
Fitting quadrant steering: The better ways of wheel steering – and oddly neglected
Des Pawson: solo serving: No it’s not that thing but it is about being single handed…
Calendar and Next Month: Events for the coming month and year, and what’s in our next issue
The last word: Artist of the Month: Tony Williams, winner of the RSMA’s Charles Pears Award
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