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Bluebird goes back to Swiss lakes 80 years after record run
Sir Malcolm Campbell’s 1937 triple world water speed record breaking K3 BLUEBIRD returns to Lake Maggiore in July to mark the 80th anniversary of her final speed record. Filching, East Sussex, U.K. 31st May 2018:… […]
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It’s the Beale Park Weekend
It’s the Beale Park Boat Show this weekend – June 1 to 3. It’s always a good show and great to see the boats on the water – many of which you can try out… […]
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Chilgrove Gin: The grape, not the grain
BY GUY VENABLES Not far from where I live the first English gin to use alcohol distilled from grapes, rather than grain, is to be born. And Chilgrove is its… […]
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The Wreck of the Zephyr – Written and illustrated by Chris van Allsburg
This is a magical tale – which should be on all parents’ (and grandparents’!) books list as a classic story of fantasy sailing for children.It centres around a boy, a keen sailor, who takes his gaff-rigged cabin… […]
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Sailing skills: launching and recovering the Jib
In our experience of teaching folks to sail, both on our own Traditional Boat Skills courses aboard Amelie Rose and through the RYA YachtmasterTM scheme we’ve come across many “methods” for doing everything from making… […]
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GL Watson The Art and Science of Yacht Design by Martin Black
Seven years after it first appeared in print we find ourselves going back to this book. Invariably the need to cross reference a detail or check something on the design list (complete and concise!) gets… […]
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THE LUGWORM CHRONICLES by Ken Duxbury
Open boat or dinghy cruising has held a perennial interest for a special type of sailor since yachting began. And in the 1970s the handy Drascombe Lugger was a great boat to be getting afloat… […]
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Swinging the Lamp By Nick Ardley
Meandering about the Essex and Suffolk tidal creeks of the Thames Estuary in his Finesse 24, Nick Ardley has picked up all sorts of tales and snippets over the years, and relates them here in… […]
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Tom Diaper’s Logbook
Memoirs of a Racing Skipper First published in 1950 this is a welcome reprint of a professional skipper’s experiences from the days of late Victorian and Edwardian sailing – days of the Big Class, through… […]
