Author: Dan Houston
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Icom plans Iridium handheld radio
Icom has got together with Iridium to develop and manufacture a new satellite radio called Satellite PTT. The radio will combine Icom’s 54 years of expertise and knowledge with Iridium’s satellite experience to provide a… […]
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Captain Oates’ yacht in WW1 centenary parade
Captain Oates’ former yacht Saunterer is joining other century old classic yachts in Dartmouth on Sunday, 11 November 2018 for a short parade on the River Dart to mark the centenary of the end of… […]
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Beaulieu Boat Jumble Cancelled
The famous Beaulieu Boat Jumble will not happen in April 2019 The Beaulieu Estate has decided not to stage the famous Boat Jumble, which has run almost every year since 1978, citing poor weather (which… […]
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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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