Author: Dan Houston
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Apprentices learning leadership skills
A team of apprentices from the construction company Balfour Beatty tested their skills with a weekend of water-based activities with a sailing charity. Emerging Talent apprentices visited Turn to Starboard in Falmouth and set sail… […]
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Couta Boats
The famous workboats of Australia – the Couta boats – are featured in the current (CS12) issue of Classic Sailor with a good argument as to why they make the perfect daysailers. As a good… […]
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Lloyd’s Registers of Yachts – all of them, on one USB
As reported in CS, the monumental task of converting the 94 volumes of Lloyd’s Register of Yachts has been completed and compiled on a memory stick by the Association of Yachting Historians. And now (just… […]
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Two new colours for International Toplac
From International: AkzoNobel has extended its International® Toplac® range of high-performance paints with the introduction of two new colours. Toplac, a single component, long-lasting, high-gloss finish, has been admired on boats for many years. It… […]
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Classic Sailor Magazine Issue 12 – October-November 2016
Our October November issue – Man on a Mission. Dave Selby is a man after our own heart. His mission is to get more people sailing by showing them boats and sailing need not cost… […]
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Dave Selby for Yachtsman of the Year!
Dave Selby – who is on the cover of the October-November issue of Classic Sailor (Out Oct 20), wants us to vote for him as the Yachtsman of the Year. NOMINATE SAILING-FOR-ALL CAMPAIGNER. (From a… […]
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A trophy sail can be as much a great experience as learning a lesson from the sea, the hard way
It’s often after an event at sea that you can look back with clear perspective and see things in the light of personal experience. We got caught out in a high gale in the Arctic… […]
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Cheeky Rafiki Charter Company owner faces manslaughter charge over her sinking
This report is taken from BBC News. The MAIB report of the accident can be downloaded: HERE. Doug Innes, director of the firm that managed the Cheeki Rafiki yacht has been charged with manslaughter after she… […]
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A letter of protest…
“What happened to “Enterprise” in Imperia” Coming ashore after Sunday´s cancelled race we were informed that we had been DSQ for the whole regatta due to the fact that our skipper by mistake handed in… […]
