Category: Our Stories
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Thermal Cooking
It is always a testament to design to see things meant for your boat ending up in your house. This is an astonishingly efficient, fuel-saving ‘eco-friendly thermal cooker’ with an internal pot that, once brought… […]
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Andrew Bray: Anchors
I was taught early on that an anchor and cable are the best insurance policy money can buy. But which is the best type? So what is the best anchor? The Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans… […]
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Portsmouth Point
Portsmouth Point is the spit of land to starboard as you sail through the narrow bottleneck into Portsmouth Harbour from the Solent. It’s chock full of history, much of it disreputable since it was largely… […]
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Patchwork spinnaker made of scraps
A Norfolk sailmaker has found a colourful solution to save material offcuts which would otherwise be wasted. Jeckells, based in Wroxham, used leftover small pieces of brightly-coloured spinnaker nylon to make a “patchwork quilt” effect… […]
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Classic Boat Museum Opens new “shed”
“After two years of hard work from all involved our goal of being able to show off the museum’s collection of yachts and boats in such a historic and eclectic setting has been reached, there… […]
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Skipper’s Medical Emergency Handbook by D Campbell Mackenzie and Dr Spike Briggs
Ten years after the first edition this is a welcome update from two sailors who have a huge amount of medical experience. Dr Mackenzie as a retired Surgeon Commander RN, was a consultant in renal… […]
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Lofting, reframing, removing planks – Tally Ho
By Leo Goolden In which Leo gets some more help to remove a lot of Tally Ho’s hull planking. The volunteers grind and hammer copper rivets, while he finishes lofting the intermediate frames inside the… […]
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Helly Hansen wins red dot design award
Helly Hansen’s Lifaloft Hybrid Insulator Jacket has won the Red Dot Award for Product Design 2018. This year’s competition was fierce with more than 6,300 submissions from 59 countries. Only 1.1% of them received the highest… […]
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HMS Victory’s fore topsail goes on display
Nelson’s fore topsail goes on display at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth for a limited time this summer. Even as the admiral lay dying, deep below decks aboard HMS Victory, during… […]
