David Greenwood of finding a boat that matched his desire to cruise the coast and canals, and the depth of his pockets... David at the helm in France I was looking for a boat for my retirement in France. I had bought a small cottage on the banks for the Rance estuary, a [...]
The full-rigged or fully-rigged ship was an excellent example of early industrial standardisation, writes Dan Houston. With the trade of the sailor being international there was a need to rig ships in the same way, so that when new crew came aboard they needed little time to familiarise themselves; all the rigging, sheets, buntlines, haliards, [...]
Long term cruiser Richard Toyne on the process of choosing the boat to replace his beloved liveaboard ketch Sigfrid When Magali and I decided to sell, our 34ft 6in (10.6m) steel ketch, and buy a fibreglass boat, we had a fairly clear idea of what we wanted. She should have a long keel, for [...]
How To Series by Jake Kavanagh with Wessex Resins and adhesives The beauty of epoxy is that it makes a tough, non-shrinking connection between various angles of wood, ideal when you want to make a plug for a custom mould. Which is why he wrote this article for us on how to make a oil drip [...]
An exhibition of the watercolours of JMW Turner has just opened at Mystic Seaport museum in Connecticut. In partnership with Tate-London, from October, 2019, to February 23, 2020, Mystic Seaport Museum presents J.M.W. Turner: Watercolors from Tate, a major exhibition drawn from the renowned Turner Bequest of 1856, the vast legacy of art donated to [...]
Marine artist and sometime boatbuilder Jamie Dodds’s latest exhibiton began on October 3 at National Maritime Museum, Cornwall, in Falmouth. The exhibtion, called Wood to Water, showcases large paintings and lino cuts and focuses on Cornwall and the working boats of Falmouth. "It gives me great pleasure to be showing my linocuts and paintings in [...]
Sugar Shaken (Not Stirred) on Mylor’s Sweetest Spirit... Mylor Yacht Harbour’s master painter Steve “Beefy” Burley has seen just about everything in more than four decades on the job – but sprinkling granulated sugar onto the immaculate deck of classic Spirit 46’ yacht Helen of Durgan to create a non-slip surface was a new one [...]
Energy Observer, the first hydrogen boat to go around the world is in London London, the iconic 47th stop Boat is moored from the 5th to 13th October 2019 at St. Katherine Docks An exhibition is set up and accessible to all to discover the boat and its Odyssey for the future Having sailed 18,000 nautical [...]
By Ian Galletti Seasickness ceased to be a problem for me, as a skipper, during the late 1960s. I was driving down to the Hamble to skipper one of the Royal Air Force's offshore racing yachts, tuned into BBC Radio 4, when I heard of an experiment carried out by NASA and the USN at [...]
