Author: Dan Houston
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Using a Breton Plotter
Navigation Refresher The Breton Plotter – sometimes called a Portland Course Plotter – consolidates parallel rules, a protractor and the compass rose into a handy chartwork instrument that is the simplest tool for the… […]
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The Yacht Harbour Association’s Marina of the Year Awards
TYHA awards world’s best marinas for 2018/19 Today (28 February 2019) The Yacht Harbour Association (THYA) announced the winners of its prestigious Marina of the Year Awards. Now in its 6th year, the Awards… […]
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I’ll never forget whatsisname – Quirky
In which Quirky’s sailing companion name-drops about how he forgot a name… In a previous lifetime, when we lived in NY, we enjoyed the delights of keeping a 25 foot sloop on Long… […]
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Whiskey fan offers to save Golden Globe Yacht in return for the barrel aboard
American philanthropist steps in to support salvage of Gregor McGuckin’s yacht. An American philanthropist with a taste for Irish whiskey has stepped in to support the salvage operation to recover Gregor McGuckin’s yacht Hanley Energy… […]
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First frame goes up on eco cargo ship
The team at Sail Cargo, building a carbon negative marine freight 155ft (47m) timber three mast ship in the jungle in Costa Rica, has reached a major milestone with the raising of the first frame.… […]
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City Of Adelaide – forced to move
Government paid A$850,000 to move her (from Scotland to Oz) and now seems to have lost interest… South Australian Transport Minister Stephan Knoll has given the owners of the 1864 wooden clipper ship City… […]
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Eight Bells – Paul Gelder
Paul Gelder, who was editor of Yachting Monthly between 2002 and 2012, died on 13 February 2019, just a week before his 72nd birthday. He had been suffering from cancer. Paul first joined Yachting Monthly as… […]
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PHOTOGRAPHER DONATES PRIZE TO CHARITY
AN AWARD winning Brixham-based photographer has donated his £300 prize to the Trinity Sailing Foundation. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″… […]
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The Sailorman
1975, Dir: David Gowing, 51 mins The old timers speak out across the decades, of their times working in the Thames Sailing Barges, a shoal draught coastal freight carrier that had not changed much since… […]
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