Category: Our Stories
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Captain Oates’ yacht in WW1 centenary parade
Captain Oates’ former yacht Saunterer is joining other century old classic yachts in Dartmouth on Sunday, 11 November 2018 for a short parade on the River Dart to mark the centenary of the end of… […]
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IN WATERS DEEP
On the 100th anniversary of the Armistice of WW1, Eileen Mahoney’s poem In Waters Deep,conveys the loss of so many sailors killed during the conflict An oft-unsung service, were the convoys of merchant seafarers who… […]
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The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey by Patrick O’Brian
There is a peculiar appropriateness and not a little poignancy about this final episode of O’Brian’s sweeping saga of Naval life – and so much else – in the early 19th century. It’s an unfinished … […]
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Vanishing Sail – a film of hope in the Caribbean
An extraordinary documentary about one man’s battle to keep his local boatbuilding tradition alive. The film is the story of the local wooden sloops of the Caribbean, most of which were built in Carriacou near… […]
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Restoration of Ester 1901
We called her the mini Vasa – after Stockholm’s famous museum ship. She is Ester, the 1901 champion racing yacht designed by Gunnar Melgren, with a dagger keel for extreme performance… and she was a… […]
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Dolphins by Fred Neil
This is surely the best version of Dolphins – which Folk legend Fred Neil wrote and recorded in 1966 The song was released as a single and also on Neil’s second eponymous album in… […]
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World’s oldest shipwreck found intact!
• 2,400 year old Greek trading vessel matches the British Museum’s Siren Vase • Found in 2,000m of water• Her double rudders, tillers, mast and rowing benches intact A Greek trading vessel… […]
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Messing About in Boats by John R Muir
A charming and evocative account of leisure sailing – plus a bit of work on boats – in UK waters in the 1930s and 40s recounted with humour by naval surgeon John Muir. This is… […]
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