Author: Dan Houston
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1492 Conquest of Paradise
1992, Dir Ridley Scott, Paramount etc, UK15, DVD, 154 min Visiting Seville in 1992 and seeing and then going aboard the replicas of the Nina, Pinto and Santa Maria was an experience to be remembered.… […]
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The Riddle of the Sands
1979 Dir: Tony Maylam 102 mins Erskine Childers’ classic novel hardly needs recommendation to Classic Sailors. This film version was made at the height of the 1970s vogue for elegant, accurate, authentically British adaptations of… […]
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White Squall
1996 Director: Ridley Scott 129 min The fictionalised version of a real event which occurred to the schooner-come-brigantine Albatross in 1961 resulting in the death of four student cadets, the skipper’s wife and the cook… […]
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Deep Water
2006 Dir: Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell 93mins Documentary In a year when there have been two movies made about Donald Crowhurst and his ill-fated quest to win the Golden Globe Race in 1968, it’s salutory… […]
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Shackleton’s Captain
2012 Dir: Leanne Pooley 85 mins The story of Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 bid to cross Antarctic is one of the most extreme survival epics of the 20th century. All the more so because Shackleton took… […]
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Coppercoat is a winner for Clipper
The protective “anti-foul” coating Coppercoat has achieved a ‘clean sweep’ from boats in the 2017-2018 Clipper Round The World Race. When the Clipper boats were finally lifted out after 40,000NM of racing and 16 months… […]
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Jean-Luc rounds Cape Horn
Jean-Luc Van den Heede, the 73-years young French sailor leading the Golden Globe Race in his Rustler 36 yacht Matmut, rounded Cape Horn last night and is heading north east into the Atlantic at… […]
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A gaffer beating bermudans
It’s been great to sail aboard the 1984 28ft Heard cutter Isabel in the Sussex Yacht Club pursuit series of races this year. Owner Aidan Tuckett, a former wooden boat sailor, recently bought the boat… […]
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Mooring line made of recycled plastic bottles
Marlow Ropes is launching a mooring rope made using 100% recycled plastic. Blue Ocean Dockline, is the first ‘technically better’ premium dockline rope manufactured using yarns wholly made from plastic bottles. “The development and production… […]
