Author: Dan Houston
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Classic Sailor Magazine Issue 13 – December 2016 – January 2017
Our December-January issue – some great winter reading. Containing a broad range of contents, from cruising an Achilles 24 through the Caledonian Canal and up the west coast of Scotland to a comprehensive review of… […]
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Claudia Myatt’s new wall planner
Claudia Myatt sends us news of her new wall planner for 2017 – which we have to say is our favourite if you use this sort of thing. On an excellent good quality paper it… […]
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Chainlocker closes for five month refit
Falmouth’s famous Chain Locker pub closes today for a five month refit. The St Austell Brewery-owned establishment needs major renovation and redevelopment and will not re-open until Easter 2017. Locals, many of them sailors, are… […]
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Yacht is dismasted in collision with container ship
From a release by the Maritime Executive The UK’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) reported Sunday that a yacht was dismasted in a collision with a container ship off Ramsgate. The Ramsgate Lifeboat center launched… […]
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Lucy L Ford and her “dinghy experience”
We have some great writers on Classic Sailor. And here is a great piece, from Lucy L Ford, on the pitfalls of going ashore in the dinghy: The ‘dinghy experience’ for the ungainly housewife has… […]
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Señor Nardi and his Nods…
One of our best regular features covers the great number of glassfibre classics that are out there. It’s written by Federico Nardi, of Cantiere Navale dell’Argentario, in Italy and he knows his boats! (Translation is… […]
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Martyn Heighton, director of National Historic Ships, dies.
We are very sad to hear that Martyn Heighton, the charismatic director and chair of National Historic Ships, has died. Martyn was involved in setting up the NHS – an over-arching body which has brought… […]
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Barges in the Pool of London
Nine Thames Sailing barges gathered to sail through Tower Bridge and into the Pool of London, in an event being called the Hit Parade. Seeing this many barges together upriver is quite rare – though… […]
