Author: Dan Houston
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IN WATERS DEEP
On the 100th anniversary of the Armistice of WW1, Eileen Mahoney’s poem In Waters Deep,conveys the loss of so many sailors killed during the conflict An oft-unsung service, were the convoys of merchant seafarers who… […]
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The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey by Patrick O’Brian
There is a peculiar appropriateness and not a little poignancy about this final episode of O’Brian’s sweeping saga of Naval life – and so much else – in the early 19th century. It’s an unfinished … […]
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Jean-Luc Van Den Heede “will carry on”
Race leader will continue after knock-down and mast damage but gets 18 hour time penalty for calling wife on satphone Poor old Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, who suffered a knockdown and mast damage (see… […]
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New Chief Executive at the Met Office
The UK’s Met Office has announced its first female Chief Executive, Professor Penelope Endersby. Professor Endersby will be starting her new post at the Met Office in December 2018. In her previous roles, she led… […]
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Susie Goodall reaches Hobart
Susie Goodall made good use of her time in Hobart to repair her wind vane self-steering and dive below her boat to to clear barnacles clinging to the bottom of her Rustler 36 yacht DHL… […]
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Pumpkin Pilot Paddles for a prize
It’s as outlandish as a tale from a Roald Dahl book – but this Tom and the Giant Pumpkin story featured Yorkshire farmer Tom Pearcy paddling some 500m down the River Ouse through the historic… […]
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Green Blue nominated for Racing Sustainability Award
From British Marine The joint environmental initiative of British Marine and The RYA The Green Blue, has been shortlisted by World Sailing for the World Sailing 11th Hour Racing Sustainability Award. The World Sailing 11th… […]
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Restoration of Ester 1901
We called her the mini Vasa – after Stockholm’s famous museum ship. She is Ester, the 1901 champion racing yacht designed by Gunnar Melgren, with a dagger keel for extreme performance… and she was a… […]
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