Author: Dan Houston
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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… […]
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Folkboat is faster
There exists, or used to exist a video showing a race(!) between a Sparkman & Stephens quarter ton class design from the 1970s – the Blue Bird 25 vs a traditional Nordic Folkboat, conceived as… […]
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Maiden stops in Plymouth
Tracy Edwards’ restored maxi yacht Maiden set off on her 54,000 mile round-the-world voyage promoting education for girls last week, but has put into Plymouth for repairs. Maiden had seen her voyage delayed by several weeks… […]
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Down to the Sea in Ships – Reviewed
1949, Dir Henry Hathaway, B&W, 20th Century Fox, PG, 120mins The character development in this classic New Bedford whaling tale makes you realise how much of modern cinema is rubbish. Its three central actors visibly… […]
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Wood Handle Offshore System Rigging Knife
The all-time Myerchin classic rigging knife the Myerchin Generation 2 W100 Offshore System fixed blade rigging knife with Hardwood handle. From Myerchin UK: Our Generation 2 W100 Offshore System rigging knife features handles made… […]
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Sir David Attenborough receives Maritime Fellowship Award
First Sea Lord honours creativity and journalism at the 2018 Maritime Media Awards Sir David Attenborough, the well-known broadcaster and naturalist has won the prestigious Maritime Fellowship Award for raising public awareness of how… […]
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Lucy L Ford: Blind Navigation
In which Lucy describes sailing with a very short-sighted skipper I had noticed that there had been much squinting at the chart plotter, and now he tells me… I sometimes wonder whether the blonde slim… […]
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