Category: Our Stories
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Blue Plaque at Sir Alec Rose’s Grocery
Alec Rose, the yachtsman Grocer from Southsea who sailed around the world in Lively Lady in 1967/68 has been honoured in his home town with a blue plaque over the shop which he used to… […]
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Oysters are being reintroduced to the River Humber in a project being supervised by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and the University of Hull. The Humber Aquaculture Partnership is an exciting new collaboration between Yorkshire Wildlife Trust… […]
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Printing 3D corals to recreate reef-life
In the film below Alex Goad of Reef Design Lab, from Melbourne Australia introduces in more detail the MARS – Modular Artificial Reef Structure, and explains how they have set up reefs which are artifical… […]
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The Navigator – Buster Keaton
October 13th 1924 Dir Donald Crisp / Buster Keaton 59mins Buster Keaton’s all at sea again, as the unwitting, hapless hero of this brilliant silent comedy where his genius for visual gags and… […]
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L’Hermione – Bringing History Back to Life
Nigel Pert talks to Dan Houston about the replica sailing Frigate L’Hermione, and shares his amazing collection of photos of the ship. The ship was launched in 2014 after a 17 year build programme in… […]
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Tally Ho gets a lifeline
From Classic Sailor issue 17, September 2017 We talk to Leo Goolden who has saved the Albert Strange designed 1927 Fastnet winner from the chainsaw – plus a vivid account of the race itself by… […]
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700,000 plastic microfibres released in one wash
The surge of toxic plastics in our ocean environment means it’s time to ban them from our wardrobe. It’s time to stop wearing fleece and polyester garments which shed huge amounts of microplastics into our… […]
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Sailing to a Viking festival across the North Sea in January
Inspirational winter passage by Erik Aanderaa, a true latter-day Viking, sailing his Contessa 35 Tessie from Haugasund in Norway to the three-day Up Helly Aa winter Viking festival at Lerwick in Shetland (in 30 hrs!)… […]
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Maiden – How Tracy Edwards broke the women-at-sea myth
Documentary 2018 Dir: Alex Holmes 93 mins Maiden opens in UK cinemas on Friday 8th March This is a truly inspirational film. It takes us back a bit, though not too far, to 1989 and… […]
