Author: Dan Houston
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Mike Smylie’s new book
Travel with Mike Smylie around Britain’s coast as he describes the fishing communities and their boats who brought the fish to market in the days before modernisation. Traditional British fishing boats’ design evolved to suit… […]
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Charlotte – A Wooden Boat Story
2011, Dir Jeffrey Kusuma-Hinte, 96 mins This film charts the life of the Gannon & Benjamin boatyard on Martha’s Vineyard – the island off Massachusetts, where they restore wooden boats and have built a series… […]
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Where is your favourite “Classic Coast”?
To celebrate 60 years of the National Trust’s Neptune Coastal Conservation Campaign we invite readers to send us their favourite coastal spots. These could be areas of natural beauty but also your favourite beach, harbour… […]
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Isabel and her watersail
Setting a watersail is something you can do in light airs to give you that extra half knot of speed. Typically watersails hang below the boom of a fore and aft sailing vessel, and mostly,… […]
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Imray did not cease chart production
FB Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson GmbH (FB Imray) has commenced operations in Vienna. The joint venture brings together the maritime expertise of Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson Ltd (Imray) and the cartographic competence of… […]
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Instructors’ tales: Tea’s Up
In which Bob Hammond discovers that, as the instructor aboard, his novice crew are likely to take him, very precisely, at his word… “Just try making it in the sink mate,” I suggested It is… […]
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Sunseeker fined £358,000 for using illegal teak
UK LUXURY YACHT FIRM FIRST TO BE SENTENCED FOR IMPORTING MYANMAR BANNED TEAK In a landmark court case in the UK, Sunseeker International Ltd has been fined £358,759.64 for using teak imported from Myanmar (Burma),… […]
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Brest festival featured on video
A video of Brest. We were happy to meet our American friends from Off Center Harbor at Brest this summer. And they have just produced a video of their experience. CS readers can see it… […]
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Don Street Remembered
The American sailing author, pilot of the Caribbean Don Street died aged 93 in May 2024 at his home in Glandore, Ireland. Dan Houston looks back on his life and describes how it was sailing… […]
