Category: Life Afloat
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Taking the right turn
How sailing round the British isles with Turn to Starboard helped former Royal Marine Dan Fielding find a new purpose for his life. After he had been medically discharged from the Royal Marines in 2008,… […]
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Irish boats at Dragonflies’ 70th
Waldringfield Sailing Club, River Deben, Suffolk By Julia Jones. The weekend of September 5th-7th 2019 saw Waldringfield Sailing Club celebrating 70 years of its 14ft (4.3m) one- design ‘Dragonfly’ class (1949). And in a return… […]
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A Classic Boat?
David Greenwood of finding a boat that matched his desire to cruise the coast and canals, and the depth of his pockets… I was looking for a boat for my retirement in France. I had… […]
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Our next boat
Long term cruiser Richard Toyne on the process of choosing the boat to replace his beloved liveaboard ketch Sigfrid When Magali and I decided to sell, our 34ft 6in (10.6m) steel ketch, and buy… […]
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Seasickness – and NASA’s cure
By Ian Galletti Seasickness ceased to be a problem for me, as a skipper, during the late 1960s. I was driving down to the Hamble to skipper one of the Royal Air Force’s offshore racing… […]
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Hamble Classics – flying high at the RAF Yacht Club
Report by Jonty Sherwill, Photos by Rick Tomlinson. The fourth Hamble Classics Regatta hosted this year by the Royal Air Force Yacht Club (20-22 September) was another major success with 68 entries across 10 classes and… […]
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Living in a dinghy
Cruising in a dinghy can get you across seas – and further up creeks than yachts, advises Roger Barnes Why do you cruise in a dinghy rather than a cabin yacht?” I am often asked… […]
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Greta Thunberg sets sail from Plymouth
Greta Thunberg, the 16 year old Swedish climate protection activist, set sail from Plymouth this afternoon bound for the New York United Nations Climate Change conference aboard the 60ft (18.28m) foiling high-tech racing yacht Malizia… […]
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Ester sails again
The 1901 rocketyacht Ester – the so-called mini Vasa rescued from the deep in 2015 by Bo Eriksson and friend Per Helgren, has launched after a four year restoration and started some sailing trials at… […]
