Category: News
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Chainlocker closes for five month refit
Falmouth’s famous Chain Locker pub closes today for a five month refit. The St Austell Brewery-owned establishment needs major renovation and redevelopment and will not re-open until Easter 2017. Locals, many of them sailors, are… […]
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Yacht is dismasted in collision with container ship
From a release by the Maritime Executive The UK’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) reported Sunday that a yacht was dismasted in a collision with a container ship off Ramsgate. The Ramsgate Lifeboat center launched… […]
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Señor Nardi and his Nods…
One of our best regular features covers the great number of glassfibre classics that are out there. It’s written by Federico Nardi, of Cantiere Navale dell’Argentario, in Italy and he knows his boats! (Translation is… […]
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Martyn Heighton, director of National Historic Ships, dies.
We are very sad to hear that Martyn Heighton, the charismatic director and chair of National Historic Ships, has died. Martyn was involved in setting up the NHS – an over-arching body which has brought… […]
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Barges in the Pool of London
Nine Thames Sailing barges gathered to sail through Tower Bridge and into the Pool of London, in an event being called the Hit Parade. Seeing this many barges together upriver is quite rare – though… […]
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Apprentices learning leadership skills
A team of apprentices from the construction company Balfour Beatty tested their skills with a weekend of water-based activities with a sailing charity. Emerging Talent apprentices visited Turn to Starboard in Falmouth and set sail… […]
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Couta Boats
The famous workboats of Australia – the Couta boats – are featured in the current (CS12) issue of Classic Sailor with a good argument as to why they make the perfect daysailers. As a good… […]
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Lloyd’s Registers of Yachts – all of them, on one USB
As reported in CS, the monumental task of converting the 94 volumes of Lloyd’s Register of Yachts has been completed and compiled on a memory stick by the Association of Yachting Historians. And now (just… […]
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Two new colours for International Toplac
From International: AkzoNobel has extended its International® Toplac® range of high-performance paints with the introduction of two new colours. Toplac, a single component, long-lasting, high-gloss finish, has been admired on boats for many years. It… […]
