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  • Our next boat

    Our next boat

    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… […]

  • Turner goes on show at Mystic

    Turner goes on show at Mystic

    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… […]

  • James Dodds Falmouth exhibition

    James Dodds Falmouth exhibition

    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… […]

  • Sugar my deck

    Sugar my deck

    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… […]

  • Renewable energy boat in London

    Renewable energy boat in London

    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… […]

  • Seasickness – and NASA’s cure

    Seasickness – and NASA’s cure

    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… […]

  • Online archive for the 6-M class

    Online archive for the 6-M class

    3 October 2019 – London, England.   The International Six Metre Class Association (ISMA) is delighted to announce the launch of a ground breaking online class archive at 6metrearchive.org. The Six Metre Class has a long… […]

  • Hamble Classics – flying high at the RAF Yacht Club

    Hamble Classics – flying high at the RAF Yacht Club

    Report by Jonty Sherwill, Photos by Rick Tomlinson.   The fourth Hamble Classics Regatta hosted this year by the Royal Air Force Yacht Club (20-22 September) was another major success with 68 entries across 10 classes and… […]

  • Ceiba’s stem goes up

    Ceiba’s stem goes up

    In this film Project founders, Danielle Doggett and Lynx Guimond, explain the stem raising process. The wood used for constructing the stem – which is the forward-most curve of the hull, is the well-known shipbuilding… […]