Category: Kit

  • Nauticalia Clocks – corrosion-resistant

    Nauticalia Clocks – corrosion-resistant

    While brass is a traditional material for clocks and barometers on board boats it is sometimes eschewed for stainless steel or other materials as it needs regular polishing, and many laquers used develop cracks which… […]

  • Patchwork spinnaker made of scraps

    Patchwork spinnaker made of scraps

    A Norfolk sailmaker has found a colourful solution to save material offcuts which would otherwise be wasted. Jeckells, based in Wroxham, used leftover small pieces of brightly-coloured spinnaker nylon to make a “patchwork quilt” effect… […]

  • Helly Hansen wins red dot design award

    Helly Hansen wins red dot design award

    Helly Hansen’s Lifaloft Hybrid Insulator Jacket has won the Red Dot Award for Product Design 2018. This year’s competition was fierce with more than 6,300 submissions from 59 countries. Only 1.1% of them received the highest… […]

  • New blocks on the block…

    New blocks on the block…

      Barton Marine launches new Barton Block Range Crafted by sailors for sailors, the new Barton Block Range is manufactured in the UK, and developed with the same design endurance and bullet-proof reliability that Barton… […]

  • Sailor Logbook App

    Sailor Logbook App

      New sailor app for yachtsmen. This is a recently released iPhone/iPad app for GPS tracking and logbook keeping. Developed by Klaus Kyrsting, from Elsinore in Denmark, it’s based on an old printed logbook and… […]

  • Ally bronze adjustable spanner

    Ally bronze adjustable spanner

    [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=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] We spotted these aspirational aluminium bronze adjustable spanners at the Beale… […]

  • Seeing the underwater world easily

    Seeing the underwater world easily

    This new style of snorkelling mask allows you to breathe through your nose or mouth and actually remains higher out of the water than normal snorkels. A float in the top of the snorkel rises… […]

  • Standard Horizon’s pack of cards-size hand held VHF

    Standard Horizon’s pack of cards-size hand held VHF

         The new Ultra-Compact Standard Horizon marine VHFX40E with built in FM radio Measuring little more than the size of a pack of playing cards, the new waterproof HX40E VHF transceiver from Standard Horizon offers… […]

  • Hamburg Skipper wool cap

    Hamburg Skipper wool cap

    The Hamburg Skipper is a traditional woollen skipper’s cap made from natural materials by specialist Sterkowski. We’ve used one of these for more than ten years and it’s worn well. The roan leather head band is… […]