Category: Our Stories
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News crews on a booze cruise
Channel 5’s Britain by Boat has so far not really lived up to expectations. It features the veteran BBC newsreader Michael Buerk and John Sergeant, the Beeb’s long term (1992 to 2000) chief political correspondent… […]
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Flying fish – between the devil and the deep blue sea
Incredible footage from BBC Earth’s The Hunt with Sir David Attenborough describing the life of flying fish as they take to the air and glide hundreds of metres, using their extended pectoral fins as wings… […]
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Susie Goodall Rescued After Yacht Pitchpoles
Susie Goodall has been rescued and is now safely aboard the Hong Kong-flagged 190m Tian Fu having abandoned her yacht DHL Starlight. The ship arrived in the dark and waited until daylight to commence the… […]
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UK to have its own GPS system
PM Theresa May has said that Britain would develop and build its own Global Navigation Satellite System, at a projected cost of £3-5bn. The announcement came on Friday November 30, as a reaction to the… […]
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Great Sailing Films
This list of our favourite films about the sea is of course subjective, but we did set ourselves some criteria – that we wanted from all the films here. Firstly the list is… […]
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1492 Conquest of Paradise
1992, Dir Ridley Scott, Paramount etc, UK15, DVD, 154 min Visiting Seville in 1992 and seeing and then going aboard the replicas of the Nina, Pinto and Santa Maria was an experience to be remembered.… […]
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The Riddle of the Sands
1979 Dir: Tony Maylam 102 mins Erskine Childers’ classic novel hardly needs recommendation to Classic Sailors. This film version was made at the height of the 1970s vogue for elegant, accurate, authentically British adaptations of… […]
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Deep Water
2006 Dir: Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell 93mins Documentary In a year when there have been two movies made about Donald Crowhurst and his ill-fated quest to win the Golden Globe Race in 1968, it’s salutory… […]
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Shackleton’s Captain
2012 Dir: Leanne Pooley 85 mins The story of Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 bid to cross Antarctic is one of the most extreme survival epics of the 20th century. All the more so because Shackleton took… […]
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