Category: Our Stories
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Sailing is a low carbon activity!
From our friends at Classic-Sailing In the UK we create 12 tonnes of carbon dioxide per person per year. (12000 kilos) On average UK people weigh 72 kilos. That’s 230 kilos per person per week,… […]
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Five Broads Hire firms join forces
The companies that offer yachts for hire on the Norfolk Broads have formed a new marketing partnership to promote sailing holidays in the Broads National Park. “Fifty years ago there were over 40 boatyards… […]
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Avel 1896 – Star boats
The clipper-bowed late Victorian period yacht Avel slips along in a St Tropez breeze with her crew in the lee scuppers and her helmsman looking like a dinghy sailor, perched on her weather rail and… […]
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Waverley launches £2m appeal
The famous paddlesteamer Waverley has just been withdrawn from service for the 2019 season after engineers report that she needs new boilers. With fears for the future of this last seagoing passenger-paddle steamer in the… […]
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Use Coastwatch to check your AIS
The Cruising Association (CA) Regulations and Technical Services Group (RATS) has come across the use of National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) stations to check AIS ( Automatic Identification System) transmissions. This seems to us to be… […]
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Family reunites with famous fleet
A West Country family were reunited with some special boats that were designed and built in Teignmouth for the Royal Navy. Three generations of the Morgan Giles family went sailing at Chichester on the boats… […]
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Latest launch brings Sunbeam fleet to 27
The 96-year-old Solent Sunbeam class welcomed a brand new yacht to its fleet last week with the launching of V70 Minty which took place at Itchenor, the base for this historic and much-admired classic keel-boat… […]
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Online forums – their kind of advice…
Thread: Sea Knives Asking an online forum for some simple advice? What’s that like then? Asks Sam Llewellyn 8th January 0855 Seasailor McDodder. Mudd. Original Poster I am off to the Boat Show, and I… […]
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Eight Bells – Luigi Lang
It’s with sadness that we learned the well-known classic yacht judge and yachting author Dr. Luigi Lang died on April 13th. He was born in Milan in 1939 and lived in Chiavari, Liguria. John Lammerts… […]
