Category: Our Stories
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Historic Smack Charter A Tonic For 92-Year-Old Roy
Historic Priscilla Charter A Tonic For 92-Year-Old Roy A favourable window in the weather saw 92-year-old Roy Loram of Sydney Street, Brightlingsea, proudly become the first person to charter the recently restored Colne fishing smack… […]
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Errol Flynn, the Cruise of the Zaca
In 1952 the Hollywood actor Erroll Flynn took a group of scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on an expedition south of California and through the Panama canal to the Caribbean, collecting samples for… […]
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20% off Wharram Designs
Press release from Wharram Designs We would like to draw your attention to our September sale which starts on Saturday. 20% off ALL Boat Building Plans! If your heart is already set on building a… […]
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Your first Tall Ship
I remember my first time on a Tall Ship. I remember friends being cool about it when I could tell they really wanted to say: Wha!? How high? And I can remember teachers at school… […]
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The £1 Folkboat
Jasper Troje Tuck, crew on the commercial sailing lugger Grayhound, writes for CS about taking ownership of a 1960s wooden Folkboat, and getting her ready for a first sail… plus giving her some “legs” Vie… […]
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World Cruising Routes 8th Edition by Jimmy Cornell
The latest in a line of editions that began in 1987 sees Jimmy rusing in his introduction on how he made a successful transit of the North West passage in 2015 which he attributes to… […]
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Good Little Ship by Peter Willis
This is a book about Arthur Ransome’s favourite cruising yacht – the 1931 seven ton 28ft Hillyard-built Nancy Blackett, named after Ransome’s most famous character, the leading Amazon, Nancy from the Swallows and Amazons book… […]
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‘Bluebird’ K3 Returns to Lake Maggiore
(for the 80th Anniversary of her World Water Speed Record) From: David Knight, Secretary, Classic Motor Boat Association; Photos Lisa Beaney After the partial rebuild of the Rolls Royce engine in 2016/17, the… […]
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The great British Swim – 65 days in
Strongman swimmer Ross Edgley and sailor Matt Knight are on their way to making Ross the first man to swim around the British Isles. The pair set off from Margate on May 30 with the… […]
