Author: Dan Houston
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Greenland sharks have broken the record for longevity
The Greenland shark has become the oldest known backboned animal researchers say, “weighing in” at around 400 years old.Scientists used radiocarbon dating to discover the age of 28 of the animals, and estimated that one… […]
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Ken Read’s insights from the recent yacht racing forum – Malta
Ken Read makes some interesting points about getting into sailing at last year’s yacht racing forum in Malta… Ken is well known for helming on J-Class Yachts and offers some advice on how to attract… […]
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Halcyon days – winter sailing
Winter sailing is often great, in these halcyon days before Christmas; we were out in just our jerseys yesterday, December 17, in the Heard 28 Isabel. Halcyon days are often associated with high pressure during… […]
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Was the romance of a wooden boat partly because she was a bargain?
Can you remember getting into boating? Chances are a wooden boat made sense because you could pick one up in quite good condition for a few thousand pounds, and that is still true. I remember… […]
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RIP Paul Elvstrom 1928 – 2016
Four times Olympic gold medal winner and all round sailing legend Paul Elvstrom has died, at his home in Denmark aged 88. Elvstrom was a lifelong sailor – and raced competitively for 60 years. He was… […]
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Books for Christmas
Buying a good book for a friend or loved one? We have a great spread of this season’s best nautical books in our December-January issue… From a great book of knots to a compendium of… […]
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A great sailor, by a great sailor
Knox-Johnston on Tilman. As Tilman’s books are re-released under the Lodestar imprint Britain’s best-known sailor Sir Robin Knox-Johnston profiles the life of the extraordinary mountaineer sailor Bill Tilman, a high latitudes navigator whose adventurous… […]
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Luke Powell Builds again
Boatbuilder Luke Powell, widely credited as the father of the modern pilot cutters, is about to start building again. Luke has found a 68ft pilot vessel to recreate for sea-training purposes, and will build her… […]
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Beached yacht
A lone sailor had to endure the loss of his floating home when his yacht got into difficulty and ended up on a Norfolk beach, writes Maurice Gray. John Favell had acquired the 43ft Mithril… […]
