Author: Dan Houston
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Anthony Osler – Marine Artist
The key elements of Anthony Osler’s work are the seas and skies of East Anglia, together with its traditional sailing craft, especially barges and smacks, and the unique light of the region. The results are… […]
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Off The Deep End – by Nic Compton
While some of us go sailing for sanity it is also well known that the sea can have the opposite effect, as this well-written volume explores. It’s a mix of general stories, such as the… […]
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Douglas Innes escapes jail
Sailing School director Doug Innes has escaped jail after receiving a suspended 15-month prison sentence when he and his company Stormforce Coaching were convicted of failing to operate the yacht Cheeki Rafiki in a safe… […]
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Nominate someone who deserves a leadership award
From British Marine: Captain John Percival was an ambassador for on-board training and encouraging investment in a yacht’s crew. The yacht training centre he founded in 1996 at Hoylake, on the Wirral peninsula in Northwest… […]
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South Georgia is free of rats
After 200 years of wreaking havoc on the local wildlife rats have at last been eradicated from the South Atlantic British island of South Georgia. The biggest rat eradication programme was declared a success this… […]
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Cowes Spring Classics
Cowes Spring Classics begins tomorrow May 11. This is a new regatta for wooden classics designed before 1970. The regatta runs til Sunday 13 May and will be based at Shepards Wharf Marina. The organisers, Mary Scott-Jackson of… […]
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Staff wanted at Arthur Beale
Arthur Beale, the London Chandlery are looking for full time Sales Staff who know one end of a boat from the other, plus a bit! If you fancy working in a friendly expanding London Chandlers,… […]
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Man dies after fishing boat capsizes off Plymouth
A man died after his fishing boat capsized on Monday close to Mountbatten breakwater in full view of bank holiday visitors to a Plymouth beach. According to the Marine Accident and Investigation Branch (MAIB) the… […]
