Category: Heritage
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HMS Victory’s fore topsail goes on display
Nelson’s fore topsail goes on display at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth for a limited time this summer. Even as the admiral lay dying, deep below decks aboard HMS Victory, during… […]
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Cross sections of a wooden boat
A few of the names that describe the parts of a wooden boat, here in cross section. Note the timber is of less thickness than a frame – boats might have timbers between frames –… […]
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Beer Luggers
By Mike Smylie I met a person once who really did think Beer Luggers were able-bodied men who raced around with barrels of ale across their shoulders. Seemingly they’d watched too many worldly TV programmes… […]
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The Greek Trireme Olympias – Living History
With no wrecks found some debated whether the trireme of ancient Greece was more marine myth than fact, but in 1987 one was built using plans developed by the retired Chief Naval Architect of the… […]
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NY40 MARILEE: Restoration of a Herreshoff Classic
Interesting and inspirational film from Alison Langley on restoring one of the thoroughbreds of the Herreshoff stable – the 1926 NY40 Marilee [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=””… […]
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Eric Tabarly drowned on his way to the Fife Regatta – in 1998
A wild night and a kicking gaff caused the loss of France’s greatest sailor, on his way to the first Fife Regatta It’s 20 years ago since France’s greatest sailor Eric Tabarly was lost overboard… […]
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Moitessier’s spiritual journey on Joshua
As a true pilot of the deep range Bernard Moitessier was a philosopher sailor who famously went round the world again in 1969 in the Sunday Time Golden Globe race when he could possibly have… […]
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Manx Nickeys – Smylie’s Boats
By Mike Smylie Disaster struck the Isle of Man in 1787 when much of the fishing fleet was destroyed in a particularly nasty gale at Douglas. These were the older scoute type of vessel, an… […]
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The mighty Zulu – Smylie’s Boats
By Mike Smylie From the start here I must admit to being somewhat biased. Why? Because it’s my opinion that the Zulu – which is sometimes referred to as the Moray Firth fishing vessel –… […]