Category: Editorials
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Death of Rees Martin
It is so sad to report the death of Rees Martin, who died suddenly from a massive stroke on Saturday 20th February 2021, writes Dan Houston. Rees was well known to classic sailors as one… […]
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News crews on a booze cruise
Channel 5’s Britain by Boat has so far not really lived up to expectations. It features the veteran BBC newsreader Michael Buerk and John Sergeant, the Beeb’s long term (1992 to 2000) chief political correspondent… […]
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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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Abhilash Tomy talks to CS in June 2018
It’s been bad news for the Golden Globe sailors as two of the leading boats were rolled and dismasted 40 nM apart in a storm on Friday. Gregor McGuckin and Abhilash Tomy have lost their… […]
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Your first Tall Ship
I remember my first time on a Tall Ship. I remember friends being cool about it when I could tell they really wanted to say: Wha!? How high? And I can remember teachers at school… […]
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Respect for the well found seaboat
Sailing a Rival 34 for our eighth issue made me very tempted to harness the wind and just get on over the horizon writes Dan Houston. I was instantly attracted to the easy movement and… […]
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The threat of floods have always been there. So how does the sailor prepare?
Noel’s flood is a joke by Geoffrey Chaucer in his Miller’s Tale – part of the Canterbury set. It’s invented by the young wife of an older carpenter, and her would-be lodger lover to persuade… […]
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Was the romance of a wooden boat partly because she was a bargain?
Can you remember getting into boating? Chances are a wooden boat made sense because you could pick one up in quite good condition for a few thousand pounds, and that is still true. I remember… […]
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A trophy sail can be as much a great experience as learning a lesson from the sea, the hard way
It’s often after an event at sea that you can look back with clear perspective and see things in the light of personal experience. We got caught out in a high gale in the Arctic… […]
