Author: Dan Houston
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The £50 Bowsprit Photo
From Classic Sailing Did you know that after sailing on one of Classic Sailing’s voyage you can enter our photo competition? Every month our staff team select the best photo from your feedback form submissions and… […]
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Last few days for Frolic
The 1905 Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter Frolic is due to be cut up and destroyed in the next few days unless someone comes forward to rescue her. Frolic is lying at an island near Bergen… […]
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No7 Hallberg-Rassy Monsun 31
The smallest boat that will take you anywhere… interiors are cosy, rational and incredibly spacious Nardi’s Nods – By Federico Nardi of Cantiere Navale Dell Argentario. Translated by James Robinson Taylor She’s the smallest boat… […]
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Cleaner boats and cleaner oceans
Marine 16, the supplier of products to maintain your boat inside and out, have developed the Zer0 Plastic range of cleaning products to help you save space and money, as well as plastic and chemical… […]
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Can you teach boatbuilding?
The International Boatbuilding Training College Portsmouth requires a Boatbuilding Instructor Overall Package £31K We are looking for an experienced shipwright to join our expanding College team, training students of all ages the highest standards of… […]
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Sailing is a low carbon activity!
From our friends at Classic-Sailing In the UK we create 12 tonnes of carbon dioxide per person per year. (12000 kilos) On average UK people weigh 72 kilos. That’s 230 kilos per person per week,… […]
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Five Broads Hire firms join forces
The companies that offer yachts for hire on the Norfolk Broads have formed a new marketing partnership to promote sailing holidays in the Broads National Park. “Fifty years ago there were over 40 boatyards… […]
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Avel 1896 – Star boats
The clipper-bowed late Victorian period yacht Avel slips along in a St Tropez breeze with her crew in the lee scuppers and her helmsman looking like a dinghy sailor, perched on her weather rail and… […]
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Use Coastwatch to check your AIS
The Cruising Association (CA) Regulations and Technical Services Group (RATS) has come across the use of National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) stations to check AIS ( Automatic Identification System) transmissions. This seems to us to be… […]
