Category: Heritage
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World’s oldest shipwreck found intact!
• 2,400 year old Greek trading vessel matches the British Museum’s Siren Vase • Found in 2,000m of water • Her double rudders, tillers, mast and rowing benches intact A Greek trading… […]
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Greg Powlesland on Patna, Marigold and restoration
The incomparable Patna After restoring the 59ft Chas Nicholson Victorian yacht Marigold (and a few other projects) in the 1990s, Greg Powlesland acquired and restored Patna – an exquisite C&N yacht from 1920. This video… […]
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IS SHE A LITTLE STRANGE?
Demeter at Auction. “She sails beautifully, fast, responsive, with a delightfully light touch and fine manners,” says Beccs Polden, as she shares reminiscences of this sweet 21ft canoe-sterned sloop that she last sailed in the… […]
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Historic St Michael’s Mount Post boat resurrected by students
Boatbuilding students from Falmouth Marine School have saved a little bit of Cornish History, with the restoration of a vintage Cornish post boat. The St Michaels Mount Post Boat, managed by the National Trust and… […]
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Four New Galleries at National Maritime Museum
On 20 September 2018, Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) opened four new permanent galleries following a major £12.6M redevelopment project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) through The National Lottery (4.6M). With over 1,100 objects… […]
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Suffolk beach boats
By Mike Smylie One of my very favourite boats is the 18ft Suffolk beach boat Three Sisters, IH81, built in Thorpeness for a Mr Ralph. Several times I’ve been out off the coast between Aldeburgh… […]
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Errol Flynn, the Cruise of the Zaca
In 1952 the Hollywood actor Erroll Flynn took a group of scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on an expedition south of California and through the Panama canal to the Caribbean, collecting samples for… […]
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‘Bluebird’ K3 Returns to Lake Maggiore
(for the 80th Anniversary of her World Water Speed Record) From: David Knight, Secretary, Classic Motor Boat Association; Photos Lisa Beaney After the partial rebuild of the Rolls Royce engine in 2016/17, the… […]
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Classic Boat Museum Opens new “shed”
“After two years of hard work from all involved our goal of being able to show off the museum’s collection of yachts and boats in such a historic and eclectic setting has been reached, there… […]
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